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Re:Lobbyists Win Right to Bombard Student Borrowers with Rob... by mring33621 on Thursday October 29, 2015 @11:47AM (#10471933)
I get robo calls that are supposedly from my own number. Caller ID is clearly not deception-proof.
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Re:Lobbyists Win Right to Bombard Student Borrowers with Rob... by djcapelis on Thursday October 29, 2015 @11:54AM (#10472000)
It's never been. Caller ID reads whatever the person placing the call wants it to be.
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Re:Lobbyists Win Right to Bombard Student Borrowers with Rob... by finnn on Thursday October 29, 2015 @03:41PM (#10473731)
Can confirm, most VoIP termination providers allow you to set your caller ID to an arbitrary string. My cellphone doesn't seem to like it when you put in letters in it (doesn't display the CID at all), but other than that pretty much anything goes.
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Re:Lobbyists Win Right to Bombard Student Borrowers with Rob... by vinbreau on Thursday October 29, 2015 @06:03PM (#10474695)
I'm glad I'm not the only one. My father's name is the same as mine so at first I thought he was calling me, nope, robocall.
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