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pmcnamara
News Editor

Caller ID scams: an update

Opinion
Mar 03, 20061 min
Data Center

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.

pmcnamara
News Editor

In addition to my editing duties, I have written Buzzblog since January, 2006 and wrote the 'Net Buzz column in Network World's dearly departed print edition for 13 years. Feel free to e-mail me at pmcnamara@nww.com.