Slashdot Caller ID Falsification Service: "Caller ID Falsification Service
Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday August 30, @12:59PM

From the oh-this-is-just-scary dept.
Dan writes ' A US website will offer Caller ID falsification service...Slated for launch this week, Star38.com would offer subscribers a simple Web interface to a Caller ID spoofing system that lets them appear to be calling from any number they choose. [...] SecurityFocus took the site for a test drive, and found it worked as advertised. The user fills out a simple Web form with his phone number, the number he wants to call, and the number he wants to appear to be calling from. Within two seconds, the system rings back, and patches the user through to the destination. The recipient sees only the spoofed number displayed on Caller ID. Any number works, from nonsense phone numbers like '123 4567' to the number for the White House switchboard.' "