| When Your Caller ID lies... | | | | Practical and Effective Uses: |
| When it comes down to it, a lot of us who like to be | | | | - Law Enforcement |
| left alone from annoying phone calls, love our caller id. | | | | - Tracking and Tracing Skips |
| The "caller identification" on a phone allows for us to | | | | - Checking up on Cheating Spouses |
| pick the phone up and see who is trying to get ahold | | | | - Keeping your privacy when calling out |
| of us. Sounds simple right? Not so fast... | | | | - Find out who just called you |
| These days with technology improving and life around | | | | - and more... |
| us being run by machines we tend to take for granted | | | | This technology is done by being able to call a number |
| those things that we trust so much to tell us the truth. | | | | on the spoof card and entering your pin. The software |
| Our gas gauges tell us when we need to fill up, our | | | | then asks you to choose a number you wish to |
| thermostats automatically keep our homes and | | | | display on the caller id. You can pick anything you |
| businesses warm and our phones tell us who is on the | | | | want! Then it asks you for the number to call. Once |
| other end. | | | | you have placed the number it automatically creates a |
| All of the above can be found true...but at the same | | | | three way call between you and the number you |
| time...what happens when things break? | | | | dialed creating the spoofed number via VOIP |
| - If your gas gauge decides to get stuck, is it telling you | | | | technology. |
| when to fill up at the right time? | | | | VOIP stands for Voice Over Internet Protocol - This |
| - When the thermostat is on the fritz, does it keep you | | | | technology can manipulate the number you see via the |
| from sweating or freezing? | | | | internet. This makes it very easy to change your caller |
| - And now you have to ask yourself, is that name | | | | id. |
| showing up on my caller id the right one? | | | | I change my caller id for practical uses because it |
| With technology getting more and more advanced, the | | | | allows me to stay private. Running a business I get a |
| age of phone spoofing has risen. It takes on the form | | | | lot of people who find out my personal cell phone |
| of your best friend but in reality can be your worst | | | | number and try to call me all the time for non-business |
| nightmare. | | | | reasons. I proceed to call the number back that has a |
| Nightmares uses can includes: | | | | changed identification that comes up to find out what |
| - Unwanted calls from Telemarketers | | | | the call is for. |
| - People Pranking You | | | | So remember next time, when you go to pick up the |
| - Someone who is stalking you | | | | phone...it may be lying to you. |
| - and more... | | | | |