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Caller ID Spoofing for the Masses
lolly72 writes "SecurityFocus has a story on a new U.S. website offering a caller I.D. falsification service. It's called Camophone. It's being advertised in Google ads that appear with search results for Star38.com, which was the the last service to try and make money off caller I.D. hacking. But unlike Star38.com, Camophone isn't limited to collection agencies and private investigators, and it doesn't cost $125 to sign up. Anyone with a PayPal account can use it, and at five cents a minute, probably will. Who do you want to fake out today?"
...since caller ID doesn't work half the time anyway.
Or /. it!
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
With such a professional-looking website I can't see how this can possibly go wrong.
So which one of you smartasses is messing with me?
...911 calls you!
---- Den ene knappen er powerknapp, den andre er Bender voice knapp "Bite My Shiny Metal Ass"
to get a call from Jack Mehoff.
...as a starving college student, managing a pizza hut, I have to say.... SHAME!
How do we know this is really The_Rippa posting??
Take off the tinfoil cover off your checkbook.
worst advice ever.
for about 3 weeks back in 1999 I had the new PBX here reporting our outgoing caller ID information as "Touch my Monkey"
we were setting it up, messing around and forgot to set it to the company information after we put it online.
The Director of sales was, for some strange reason, not amused.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
"for about 3 weeks back in 1999 I had the new PBX here reporting our outgoing caller ID information as "Touch my Monkey"
we were setting it up, messing around and forgot to set it to the company information after we put it online.
The Director of sales was, for some strange reason, not amused. "
That explains why the salesman refused to talk dirty to me. I thought it was just an agressive 976 campaign.
The hackers in my company were not given any test data to work with (of course) in a particular web app we were building, which had (among other features) an online events calendar.
So, the hackers would make up data themselves. Which led to some fairly off-colour events being entered into the events calendar database.
At a client acceptance meeting, the project manager demonstrated a "show all events through the web" feature and was presented with (among other things) a "baby raping festival".
We were given a policy on test data creation after that.
Cheers,
Richard
They're already using the email. Why, just the other day, I received a message from Citibank telling me that they needed to re-verify my identity. They even provided a really easy-to-access web site for me to enter my card number and personal information, no sweat. The really cool thing is that I don't even have a Citibank card yet. Talk about proactive!
GreyPoopon
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Why is it I can write insightful comments but can't come up with a clever signature?
I think "Oh, we let little Joey stay over with that nice Michael Jackson all the time. Go ahead, send your son right over!" pretty much tops that.
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What would Bill Clinton do?
That's because all Monkey Touching at the corporate level is strictly reserved for sales people and other wankers.
But, if *I* had call display, I'd certainly be intrigued by such an item displayed on an incoming call.
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
>> Some providers allow you to set CID/ANI to anything > >CID, yes. ANI? Are you sure? > >Since ANI is used for billing purposes, including 900 numbers, I highly doubt any telco allows it to be modified. Yup. I have access to a DS3 worth of PRIs from Radiant and Global Crossing. I can set ANI on them to anything I want to all day long. I've also got direct access to CLEC's switch with an SS7 interconnect. I can do pretty much anything I want to. It could, eventually, be traced back...so I don't. The only thing "questionable" I did was light up 4 PRIs worth of calls to the 800 numbers set up for voting for American Idol. I wonder how far I skewed the numbers.