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2. Caller ID spoofing - Wikipedia

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   Caller ID spoofing is a spoofing attack which causes the telephone network's Caller ID to indicate to the receiver of a call that the originator of the call is a station other than the true originating station. This can lead to a display showing a phone number different from that of the telephone from which the call was placed.

3. What You Need to Know About Phone Scams - AOL

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   Scammers know how to fake a phone number. Kerskie describes a scam where a client received a spoof call from what he thought was his daughter’s phone. ... the company gives customers free Caller ...

4. Truth in Caller ID Act of 2009 - Wikipedia

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   On April 6, 2006, Congressmen Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.) and Joe Barton (R-Tex.) introduced H.R. 5126, a bill that would have made caller ID spoofing a crime. Dubbed the "Truth in Caller ID Act of 2006", the bill would have outlawed causing "any caller identification service to transmit misleading or inaccurate caller identification information" via "any telecommunications service or IP-enabled ...

5. 30 Scam Phone Numbers To Block and Area Codes To Avoid - AOL

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   888 numbers indicate it is a toll-free call. Calls made to toll-free numbers are paid for by the recipient rather than the caller, making them particularly popular among call centers and other ...

6. Strip search phone call scam - Wikipedia

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   The caller convinced the manager to strip-search the employee and to provide detailed descriptions of her naked body, including her breasts and genitalia. The incident ended when a 22-year-old male colleague of the victim came into the room and intervened, with the male employee confronting the "officer" on the phone before the caller hung up. [6]

7. Mercersburg Police Department issues spoof alert about phone ...

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   “Often a reverse caller ID check will simply redial the number displayed by the spoofing, not the actual number behind the call.” The Mercersburg Police Department will never call people and ...