It might be unethical, if not illegal, but none-the-less very possible. In many PBX type phone systems, the phone company accepts whatever number the phone system hands it with no verification. A while back a misconfiguration in our phone system was causing the Caller ID numbers to appear as if they originated from one of the local hospitals. A 3rd party or internet-based phone company could very easily do this, perhaps even provide it as a service so that when a call is placed, it randomly hands out number or, legitimately routes the call randomly through any of its assigned number pool.
-TS Thomas C. Steele Technology Director Manteno CUSD #5 From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike Oliveri Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 3:05 PM To: Tech-Geeks Mailing List Subject: Re: [tech-geeks] Random Phone Numbers That can't be true. It would be like the phone company is saying "Number spoofing is cool, as long as we're the ones doing it." And it would be especially problematic if those random numbers translated back to legit numbers. Mike On Sep 1, 2010, at 2:36 PM, Tim Ferguson wrote: Has anyone heard of or dealt with a parent that reports that, because of serious, harassment-type problems with other people, that the phone company has them set up where random numbers are sent to caller ID's they call by the phone company when they make a call? Sounds kinda far fetched to me thinking they can have their number blocked, but thought I'd check, could be I'm behind the times here. Thanks! Tim | Subscription info at http://www.tech-geeks.org |
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