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For example, a scamster 5,000 miles away phones an order to your company. Your caller ID shows he is in a prosperous town nearby. You ship the merchandise to an apartment his buddy has rented for a week. Later you learn the phone number he gave (and which showed on caller ID) is that of an innocent person.
There are websites that allow you (for very little money) to enter a fake phone number that will display as your caller ID. You choose ANY number you want: A bank, the FBI, the local police!
Who uses this service, other than scams? Semi-legit telemarketers for one. Police departments and private investigators sometimes use it to disguise their real phone numbers.
I had never heard of it until a local TV station did a special on it yesterday. Yikes!
Just one more thing you can't trust and a little more to worry about.
Where was the press on this?
One guess: the phone companies don't want Caller ID revenue to disappear and have kept this quiet.
Lots of other colours too .
If we get hold of them.
I then called the phone company and asked if there was a way to block these calls, because these people were calling me many times a day. Apparently, there was no way to do it because they were actually calling from outside the country, not from the number on the caller ID.
