| The concept of Caller ID spoofing has been around | | | | the advent of Caller ID Spoofing, people can now |
| since the inception of Caller IDs. Earlier the technology | | | | choose to keep their phone numbers off CLI units. The |
| was used only by rich businessmen and private | | | | technology can not only help prevent identity theft, but |
| investigators. The common public had restricted | | | | also help business owners operate businesses from |
| access to it. | | | | the cozy confines of their homes. The technology |
| There's been a lot of hype recently about this | | | | allows users to reflect a single phone number on CLIs |
| technology after the mention of a Caller Id Spoof | | | | while using different phones for making outgoing calls. |
| service provider in a movie called "Untraceable". The | | | | Customers would know that the business operates |
| idea of restricting call receivers from seeing the caller's | | | | round the clock without having a clue that you are |
| ID has ceased to enthrall us anymore. Technology has | | | | actually making a business call while cooling off in your |
| now made it possible to use a spurious phone number | | | | swimming pool! |
| for our regular phones. Callers can now choose to | | | | There are various benefits offered by the Caller ID |
| display a number of their choice on the CLI unit of the | | | | Spoof technology, but you should keep in mind that the |
| receiver. | | | | services could also be used for harming people and |
| Caller ID systems let call receivers see the number | | | | hence use it responsibly. The service might allow you |
| they are getting a call from. The very purpose of this | | | | mask your number, but you can have absolute |
| system was to stop pranksters from disturbing people. | | | | anonymity only until the call receiver has received his |
| This also allowed the receiver to gather information | | | | her telephone bill. The bill would disclose everything you |
| about a particular caller using his phone number. With | | | | wanted to hide. |