Spoofing in the Digital Age

An industrial phrase for when caller ID displays a name and/or phone number different than where it is actually originating.

It's an illegal practice if your number is on the national or state DO NOT CALL Registry and a caller spoofs you.  But it's legal for everyone else.

There are measures before Congress that would make spoofing illegal for calls made to all telephone numbers, but only if the spoofer is intending to defraud or cause harm.

There are websites and services dedicated to spoofing that use reasons such as privacy to legitimize it.

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