Caller ID Spoofing

Caller ID Spoofing

What is caller id spoofing?

 

Caller ID spoofing has been around for years to persons with a  digital connection to the phone company, called an ISDN PRI circuit. Debt collectors, government officials, and private investigators have used caller id spoofing.

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The first Caller ID spoofing company , Star38.com, was launched in September 2004. Star38.com was the first service to allow caller id spoofing to be placed from a web interface. It stopped offering caller id spoofing in 2005, as a handful of similar sites were launched.

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In August 2006, Paris Hilton used caller ID spoofing to crack into a voicemail system that used caller ID for verivication.  Caller ID spoofing has been used in purchase scams on web sites such as Craigslist and Ebay. The scamming caller claims to be calling from Canada into the US with a legitimate interest in purchasing advertised items. Often the sellers are asked for personal information such as a copy of a registration title, etc before the (scamming) purchaser invests the time and effort to come see the for sale items.

Frequently, caller ID spoofing is used for prank calls. For example, someone might call a friend and arrange for “The White House” to appear on the recipient’s caller display. In December 2007, a hacker used a Caller ID spoofing service and was arrested for sending a SWAT team to a house of an unsuspecting victim. ^[6] In February 2008, a Collegeville, Pennsylvania man was arrested for making threatening phone calls to women and having their home numbers appear “on their caller ID to make it look like the call was coming from inside the house.”^[7]

In March 2008, several residents in Wilmington, Delaware reported receiving telemarketing calls during the early morning hours, where the caller had apparently spoofed its Caller ID to evoke the 1982 Tommy Tutone song 867-5309/Jenny.^[8]

Legitimate reasons for changing a caller ID sent with a call.

1. Commercial answering service bureaus which forward calls back out to a subscriber’s cell phone, when both parties would prefer the CNID to display the original caller’s information.
2. Most calling card companies display the Caller ID of the calling card user to the called party.
3. Business owners have been known to use Caller ID spoofing to display their business number on the Caller ID display when calling from outside the office (for example, on a mobile phone)
4. Skype users can assign a Caller ID number in order to prevent their Skype-Out calls being screened by the called party (the default Skype Caller ID in the USA is 000123456). However, despite verification of Caller-ID number by Skype, pre-paid cell phones could be used to spoof a non traceable call back number