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On Thu, 05 Dec 1996 09:22:53 -0500, dave
(email: dav@erols.com) posted:
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> Jay,
> 	You sound very knowlegable about CNID however, as a computer geek with
> 15 years of online experience I've seen many an 'impossible' hack
> committed.  If someone had the specs on the signals sent between the
> caller id box and the telco I imagine that they could possibly invent a
> spoof solution.
> Dave

Dave, is it me, or is the Usenet starting to get filled with
what-seems completely ignorant people, who blast their ignorance as
the gospel, as if they possess the God-given wisdom to know what is
possible and what is not possible in our world?

That guy, Jay, was WRONG, and it's unfortunate nobody has corrected
him on this.  IT IS POSSIBLE TO "SPOOF" CALLER ID.  AND NOT WHILE THE
RECEIVING PARTY IS OFF-HOOK:

THERE IS AN LD COMPANY, WHICH WILL REMAIN UNNAMED, WHICH LETS YOU
"TYPE-IN" THE 10-DIGIT PHONE NUMBER WHICH WILL SHOW ON THE RECEIVING
END'S CALLER ID BOX, WITH THE NAME BEING "UNKNOWN".  From what I
remember, you dial the co's 800 #, say that you want to make a collect
call, and enter the number from which you are calling, immediately
followed by the number to which you want to make a collect call.  And
this is not a theory - IT WORKS.

If that telemarketing company (in the original post) uses this LD company
as their service provider, I have no doubt in my mind that they will
let the telemarketing people choose which number to have displayed on
their customers' Caller ID boxes.

I also found funny-sad the reply from the guy who thinks "PRIVATE" is
"spoofing", or the guy who responded, who apparently thinks that the
other guy was saying that using *67 costs $6.50.  Was sorta like
"dumb & dumber" if ya know what I mean.

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.

Happy holidays,
Yours Truly