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U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says investigators will look into a recorded message sent to Democratic lawmakers by someone using his telephone number.

Reid staffers say the messages — opposing healthcare reform — do not originate in the Nevada Democrat’s office, The Hill reported Wednesday. Instead, the creator of the message has allegedly engaged in a practice known as “spoofing,” creating a false caller ID number.

“An unidentified organization is dishonestly using Sen. Reid’s office number to mislead people and to

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create yet another distraction from the important issues our country needs to address,” said Rodell Mollineau, a spokesman for the majority leader. “American families are suffering and every day that defenders of the status quo spend on misleading and disruptive tactics like this is a wasted opportunity to be working on finding real solutions.”

The calls last 30 seconds and include an anti-spending message as well.

Source: http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/08/13/Sen-Reid-spoofed-by-opposition-calls/UPI-47271250141965/

Caller Id Spoofing in the news.

A congressman’s office was getting phone calls from people who didn’t like getting recorded phone messages that bad-mouthed Murphy. The constituents were upset that the messages appeared to come from the congressman’s office. The number of his office was showing up on the caller id

“People thought we were making the calls,” Murphy said.

The calls, which the Pennsylvania Republican estimated in the thousands, were apparently placed with fake Caller ID. That has been possible for a long time, but it generally required special hardware and technical savvy.

In the last few years, Caller ID spoofing has become much easier. Millions of people have Internet telephone equipment that can be set to make any number appear on a Caller ID system. And several websites have sprung up to provide Caller ID spoofing services, eliminating the need for any special hardware.

For instance, Spoofcard-spoofcard.com sells a virtual “calling card” for $10 that provides 60 minutes of talk time. The user dials a toll-free number, then keys in the destination number and the Caller ID number to display. The service also provides optional voice scrambling, to make the caller sound like someone of the opposite sex.

Caller ID spoofing is legal, though many of its uses are not.

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Lance James, chief scientist at security company Secure Science, said Caller ID spoofing websites are used by people who buy stolen credit card numbers. They will call a service such as Western Union, setting Caller ID to appear to originate from the card holder’s home, and use the credit card number to order cash transfers that they then pick up.

Telephone companies can trace calls to their origin regardless of the Caller ID information they carry, but the process is laborious, especially since a call may be carried by several companies before reaching its destination. The fragmented nature of the telephone network also makes it technically difficult for the carriers to prevent spoofing.

At Verizon Communications, security manager John Lewandowski said the company often gets complaints about fake Caller ID after a telemarketer has spoofed his number to cover his tracks.

In a typical case, someone will be jarred in the middle of the night by repeated telemarketing calls. He checks Caller ID, calls the number — which is false — and starts “cussing out” the person at the other end of the line, Lewandowski said.

“And that poor guy was asleep. It wasn’t him at all,” Lewandowski said. The company investigates and tracks down the callers, he added.

Apart from fraud and telemarketing, Caller ID spoofing can be used for pranks and spying.

In one case, SWAT teams surrounded a building in New Brunswick, N.J., last year after police received a call from a woman who said she was being held hostage in an apartment. Caller ID was spoofed to appear to come from the apartment.

It’s also easy to break into a cellphone voice mailbox using spoofing, because many systems are set to automatically grant entry to calls from the owner of the account. Stopping that requires setting a PIN code or password for the mailbox.

In a slightly more complicated fashion, spoofing was part of the technique used by a hacker who broke into Paris Hilton’s cell-phone voicemail in 2004, according to security consultant Kevin Mitnick, who said he was citing hacking sources. The hacker apparently called the celebrity socialite posing as a technical-support person from the carrier, and lured the password from her.

That is known as a “pretext” call — someone poses on the phone as a customer, employee or even a regulator to obtain personal information from companies and individuals. And indeed, while Spoofcard.com contends that its service is for “entertainment purposes,” it also notes that “Private Investigators will find Caller ID spoofing valuable for pretext calls.”

Robert Douglas, a privacy consultant in Colorado, testified before Congress last month that pretexters trade tips on finding the best caller id spoofing service.

Pretexters generally claim their practices are legal, as long as they don’t involve financial information. A bill introduced in the Senate would make it illegal to pose as someone else to obtain phone records, or to buy records from phone company insiders.

Douglas would like legislation against Caller ID spoofing as well, but there appears to be little interest in Washington.

“If I’m paying extra for Caller ID, which I do … there should be some ability on my part to believe what I’m getting,” Douglas said.

In Alaska, State Representative Bob Lynn has introduced a bill to make spoofing a misdemeanor. “False caller identification is more serious than pranks, or the annoyance of intrusive telemarketing,” Lynn writes. “It facilitates fraud, and can be potentially deadly.”

However, it is unclear what effect the bill would have. As Lynn notes, Caller ID Spoofing is a federal issue.

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