| Phone spoofing lets you disguise and hide your number | | | | receiving a call from someone they know and not |
| from the person you are calling by manipulating the | | | | from a "blacklisted" number. It would be denying the |
| unique CPN number at the router box of your phone | | | | truth if we said that the critics are wrong, but the |
| service provider. You could select a dummy number to | | | | technology was not developed to serve this purpose. |
| be displayed on the CID unit of the call receiver. | | | | There are a lot of benefits offered by it. Business |
| The technology plays an important in undercover | | | | owners could operate businesses from the comfort of |
| investigations, by disguising the number of the | | | | their homes, without letting the customer know about it. |
| investigator and not letting the suspect know that he is | | | | If the business number is used as the "spoof" number |
| under investigation. Caller ID spoofing was accessible | | | | to mask the home or private number while making |
| only to businesses and law enforcement agencies until | | | | outgoing calls to customers, the customers would think |
| a decade back when the technology became | | | | that the concerned business operates round the clock |
| available to the public in a cheaper and more efficient | | | | to serve them better. The service can also be used |
| version. | | | | by law enforcement agencies to mask their numbers |
| The technology is now marketed by several websites | | | | while on an undercover operation. The suspect would |
| and there's no restriction on who can buy the service. | | | | never know that he is under the radar and this would |
| The service however is not considered legal in many | | | | make it easier for the investigators to run the |
| states because some people have known to use it for | | | | investigation. |
| illegal purposes. You just need to make sure that the | | | | Just like any other technology Phone Spoof could also |
| use of this service is considered legal in you state | | | | be used for both legal and illegal purposes. This doesn't |
| before you buy it. | | | | make it bad or less desirable. Nothing is bad! It all |
| Critics claim that Caller ID Spoofing makes it easier for | | | | depends on how you use it. |
| scam artists to trick people into believing that they are | | | | |