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TrapCall Service To Bypass Caller ID Blocking
cemaco writes in with news that TelTech, developers of the infamous SpoofCard service, have come out with something even more controversial: a set of services for revealing blocked caller ID numbers. The services take advantage of a loophole in the way caller ID blocking works — it has never been effective when calling an 800 number, because the recipient is paying for the call. So TelTech instructs you how to forward blocked calls (transparently) to their 800 number; the call comes back to your phone in seconds with the formerly hidden caller ID revealed. Advocacy groups for victims of domestic violence are concerned. Victims of annoying calls hiding behind caller ID blocking are rejoicing.
Advocacy groups for victims of domestic violence are concerned
What about ?
Sounds like something a certain bear at a certain /b/ would set up.
Hmmm... it suddenly occurs to me that blocking caller id is a lot like the 'Anonymous Coward' option at Slashdot.
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I do like to communicate with anonymous people, but I only use a single, upraised digit.
Doesn't really come across on the phone, though.
Battered wives should talk to abusive husband thru lawyers, police officers and large caliber pistols only.
Fixed that for you ;)
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We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
Battered wives should talk to abusive husband thru lawyers, police officers and large caliber pistols only.
Fixed that for you ;)
I can't hear you! Don't fire the gun while you're talking!
Payphone?
Oh yeah, I remember those. I think I saw one in about 1998.
he number of people I wish to communicate with via voice is a single digit.
...And you can just yell up the basement stairs if you want to talk to her.
Send them a four.
I agree. If the phone number is blocked I do not answer. I don't talk on the phone to anonymous people. I don't use voice mail either. So you either call from your unblocked phone # that I recognize or I don't answer. Hell I am not really sure why I have a telephone anyway. The number of people I wish to communicate with via voice is a single digit.
And it only takes a single digit to communicate with you as well.
WTF is a pay phone?
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