Neither DHS nor FTC has any legislation on this. Florida house had a bill. Unfortunately, Collection agencies are deceptive by nature as most other options have been exhausted before an account goes to collections. I get the same thing here; they once even called me from a number that had my same last name!!
There is one Alex Lopez (NOT ME!!!!) here in Miami that owes a lot of people a lot of money. I get calls at all times of the day and night, they forge the number, and so what do they care about following the FTC rules!!!! I feel your pain. I may create an IVR Hell for them, so that I can transfer the calls to, Hey, Its their dime. Alex ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Goodyear Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 4:01 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Spoofing CID Yeah I'm thinking either homeland security or some other identity-critical legislation might be on my side here. On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 12:40 PM, randulo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 9:26 PM, Robert Goodyear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So who out there is aware of the FCC or FTC laws concerning spoofing caller > ID for deceptive purposes? There's a collection agency out there who has my > wife's name crossed with someone else's, and they are picking numbers from > our area code to present themselves as when calling us (over and over and > over.) I of course would like to turn this around on them as they refuse to > believe who we say we are. That sucks! Here's an older article about this seemingly common practice: http://www.securityfocus.com/news/9822
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