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On 6 Dec 1996 15:05:58 GMT, relkay01@fiu.edu (Ron Elkayam) wrote:

<<Typical UseNet self-annointing flame about someone else's opinion: SNIPPED>>

>Oh, there's another possibility here (in regards to the spoofing): I
>remember someone telling me several months ago, that some CELLULAR
>company was doing the same thing - letting the customer choose/fake
>the phone number to be displayed on the receiving end's CID box.  I
>don't remember if it required physically messing with the cell phone,
>or whether it was an automated machine which would read-in a
>punched-in sequence of "originating" phone number.  And this has not
>been fully substantiated, so perhaps someone else could know more
>about this.

My experience (and ITS ONLY MY EXPERIENCE) with BellAtlantic Cellular is that the caller ID packet sent from
my cell phone when i make a call, is the ID packet sent to my stop by the last inbound call.
It's caused some interesting situations as i am dating several ppl right now <giggle>  (yeah, they all know
about each other)   One of my gentleman friends will not answer the phone if he doesn't recognize the ID.. but
once call the ID number because i often called him after i spoke to the other and he wondered why this number
kept calling him.    The funny thing is that caller recognized the name of the law firm when the phone was
answered...  and the two of them ended up meeting for happy hour that day.  <shutter>  Now i just get my
secretary to call me prior to making a call to any of them.

BTW, is this ID a header packet? (I work with LAN/WAN token/ethernet stuff..  so i don't know much about
telephones.. but i'm learning a bit by lurking around your group.)

Thanks to all of you for sharing your wealth of information!!!

Regards,
mouse


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