CallerID Spoofing to be Made Illegal

MadJo writes "US Congress has just approved a bill that will make it illegal to spoof CallerID. From the bill: 'The amount of the forfeiture penalty (...) shall not exceed $10,000 for each violation, or 3 times that amount for each day of a continuing violation, except that the amount assessed for any continuing violation shall not exceed a total of $1,000,000 for any single act or failure to act.'"

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You are impersonating a lawyer on Slashdot

[giafly]

Hi node 3,

• You just said impersonation is fraud, so please turn yourself in to the police.
• Still here? Then clearly you were lying
• You just said lying is fraud, so please turn yourself in to the police.

Re:Upside-down.

[Sancho]

So strippers who dress as cops have power over others they don't deserve? Be careful of blanket statements, for they make you look more of a fool than you clearly are. I would argue that impersonating a cop and dressing up as a cop (particularly, but not limited to, non-regulation uniforms with hotpants and a shirt which exposes your midriff) are two different things.

Re:The US System Works

[Bombula]

Your reply is interesting and informative, but would be better received if you didn't go so far out of your way to sound like Mary Antoinette. "Would you really miss 14 days pay no matter what you earned?" You cannot actually be so far removed from the plight of 150 million other Americans that you intend this question to be taken seriously, unless you're clinically retarded. So instead it comes off just like your other comment about how you would never even notice losing $100 - a brazen exercise is massaging your own overinflated ego. You'd do better without that kind of crap.