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Re:I was just subjected to the most credible phishing attemp... by rusk on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @09:31AM (#21202997)
> If you’re spoofing a random number for telemarketing calls that’s just not fraud.

It absolutely is, and in most civilised countries is illegal.

Like, I can totally believe that in the USA where any old lunatic can own an automatic weapon amd nobody gets concerned until he shoots up a school thats the case ye

There’s probably some constitutional argument that you can spoof your number based on something ridiculous like free speech

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Re:I was just subjected to the most credible phishing attemp... by ryanlol on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @09:41AM (#21203084)
>in most civilised countries is illegal.

I feel like we’re moving goalposts here and “civilised countries” will sooner than later become “English-speaking countries”, in which case I’m totally willing to concede that you’re probably right.

Very few countries have found it necessary to prohibit CID spoofing.

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Re:I was just subjected to the most credible phishing attemp... by rusk on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @06:26PM (#21208836)
> I feel like we’re moving goalposts

More semantics. Yawn. Save it for debate club.

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Re:I was just subjected to the most credible phishing attemp... by ryanlol on Thursday October 10, 2019 @06:43AM (#21212899)
When you're wrong you're wrong :)
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