Monday, March 21, 2005
Posted by Roberto
9:38 AM
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SPIT
SPAM OVER INTERNET TELEPHONY
Today the most common criminal use of phone lines is caller-ID spoofing. Wire-transfer services like Western Union require customers to call from their home phone when they want to transfer money in an effort to deter fraud, but this barrier is easily sidestepped by any identity thief using a caller-ID spoofing service, or by manipulating a Free World VoIP Dialup service to spoof calls.
In the United States, Caller ID spoofing is not prohibited by law. Telemarketers might start using VOIP to blast huge numbers of voice messages to consumers, a technique known as SPIT, for "spam over Internet telephony."
New ways to verify online identities are required:
NeuStar
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