if there’s one thing that the indefatigable researcher hates, it’s never getting the phone picked up on the receiving end…maybe you’re calling from a ‘too well known’ corporation or newspaper (or police station) and caller id soils your allure…maybe you’re some unknown quantity displayed as ‘private’ or ‘blocked’ on a caller id box - and hence suspect…whatever the case, there’s now a very questionable solution from star38 offering, “A solution that legally allows you to be anyone, any area code at any number at any time.”

Star38 is (..or should i say ”was“?) a service based in california that takes the telephone masking game to dizzying heights by commercializing “caller id spoofing,” a long time orphic practice within hacker communities…simple idea for users: you set up an account for about 20 bucks a month, go to the website and log in, enter the number that you want to call, and then make up the number that you wish to display on the recipient’s caller id unit and then hang up…the service then calls you back and connects you automatically…when you’re done, you just hang up and move along…calls are 7 to 10 cents per minute above the monthly fee…

the service is being marketed heavily toward the debt collection industry (as in, ‘if they won’t return a call from the collection agency, then make the call come from her brother’s house’)…have also read that this is being used by law enforcement folks as well as the bounty hunters of the world…

scary shit, huh? well, somebody threatened to kill founder jason jepson recently for marketing caller id spoofing services, and in a timorous spirit, he took the company out to the block (read: for sale) less than one week after launch…

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