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  2. Caller ID spoofing - Wikipedia

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    The first mainstream caller ID spoofing service was launched U.S.-wide on September 1, 2004 by California-based Star38.com. [4] Founded by Jason Jepson, [5] it was the first service to allow spoofed calls to be placed from a web interface. It stopped offering service in 2005, as a handful of similar sites were launched.

  3. Top 5 scam phone numbers in the US - AOL

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    Phone number lookup service ReversePhone recently compiled the top five area codes and phone numbers used by scammers in 2024. The list is based on the number of complaints about scam calls from ...

  4. 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 caller claimed his daughter was in ...

  5. Voice phishing - Wikipedia

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    On March 31, 2020, in an effort to reduce vishing attacks that utilize caller ID spoofing, the US Federal Communications Commission adopted a set of mandates known as STIR/SHAKEN, a framework intended to be used by phone companies to authenticate caller ID information. [29] All U.S. phone service providers had until June 30, 2021, to comply ...

  6. STIR/SHAKEN - Wikipedia

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    STIR/SHAKEN, or SHAKEN/STIR, is a suite of protocols and procedures intended to combat caller ID spoofing on public telephone networks.Caller ID spoofing is used by robocallers to mask their identity or to make it appear the call is from a legitimate source, often a nearby phone number with the same area code and exchange, or from well-known agencies like the Internal Revenue Service or ...

  7. Identify legitimate AOL websites, requests, and communications

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    Fake email addresses - Malicious actors sometimes send from email addresses made to look like an official email address but in fact is missing a letter(s), misspelled, replaces a letter with a lookalike number (e.g. “O” and “0”), or originates from free email services that would not be used for official communications.

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

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    The Mercersburg Police Department is warning local residents about fake calls that appear to be from its phone number. “A spoofed phone call is one that says that it’s coming from one specific ...

  9. 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 ...