so you might recall a while back when i was telling you all about the stygian state of callerID spoofing, in which any regular john, jane or mercedes can route a call through to a designated recipient and create any originating number to display on the caller ID box on the other end…who loves this tool? well, hackers for one - they can pretend to be tech support people who need, for example, paris hilton’s password…or bounty hunters who wanna look like they’re calling from the home of a loved one…or rogue researchers from all walks of life…but the positive side is use within the area of private investigation ‘for good, not evil’ - and many of those premium services are off limits to unlicensed investigators (oh, bummer…well, actually, think again)..

it used to be that you needed all sorts of fancy hardware and shit to make this trickery possible, but now a slew of internet based service providers make it simple and fun, and as they like to say, “for entertainment purposes only“….yahoo news just reposted an AP story covering this area and pointed to the growing popularity of two big providers: spooftel (covered them in that earlier article) and spoofcard, the latter of which is particularly interesting as they provide their services via a pre-purchased card and offer some advanced features, including the ability to change your voice as well as record your calls (ouch, can you spell t-r-o-u-b-l-e?)

..funny, spoofcard.com is so ambitious that they’ve even launched a reseller/affiliate program - and it appears that the FCC is way behind the ball on this one - they’re still arguing that, uh, actually nothing - their position isn’t even really clear (you can read some more about this particular issue)…only in alaska, according to the AP piece, is one guy pushing to make spoofing a misdemeanor…does the availability of this kind of service chill your shit? well, ask yourself this question: when you check your mobile phone voice mail, does it automatically play to you when dialing from your own number? exactly….

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