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Caller ID scams: an update

Opinion
Mar 3, 20061 min

Perhaps spurred by a flurry of mainstream press and blog coverage, the FCC is apparently all over this fraudulent Caller ID business. And, according to this story in Wired News, the regulators are looking not only at operators of Web sites that facilitate Caller ID spoofing, but also customers of those sites.

Suddenly that prank you played on Bob in accounting doesn’t seem quite so funny.