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  2. Caller ID spoofing - Wikipedia

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    Example of caller ID spoofed via orange boxing; both the name and number are faked to reference leetspeak. 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.

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

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    In addition, the company gives customers free Caller ID and one free second number called “PROXY” that you can give out like your junk email address to help keep your private number private ...

  4. Phone hacking - Wikipedia

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    [6] [7] During the mid-2000s, calls originating from the handset registered to a voicemail account would be put straight through to voicemail without the need of a PIN. A hacker could use caller ID spoofing to impersonate a target's handset caller ID and thereby gain access to the associated voicemail without a PIN. [8] [9] [10]

  5. 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 ...

  6. Racist spoof text messages spam Black Americans in the US ...

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    Install a spam call-blocking or spoofing protection app. File a complaint with the FCC and the FTC. Change your phone number. Consider signing up for identity theft protection.

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

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    Anyone who gets a call they think is a spoof should not give out personal information and should hang up and call the police at 717-328-0150. What to do when you get a spoofed phone call.

  8. SMS spoofing - Wikipedia

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    SMS spoofing is a technology which uses the short message service (SMS), available on most mobile phones and personal digital assistants, to set who the message appears to come from by replacing the originating mobile number (Sender ID) with alphanumeric text. Spoofing has both legitimate uses (setting the company name from which the message is ...

  9. Double charges, sneaky fees, bad service: Monroe County ... - AOL

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    I keep receiving calls from people, claiming I’ve been calling them multiple times a day when I haven’t,” one complaint read. “Somebody used my phone number as CALLER ID for spoofing calls.