Phone Caller ID Spoofing History

Phone Caller ID Spoofing has been around since the inception of caller id itself. In the early days of caller ID Spoofing it was an expensive and technical task to implement. Spoofing a caller ID was primarily used by businesses to provide a single telephone number to be displayed for all of their business lines. The equipment to accomplish this was provided by the major telephone companies.

The first real commercial use of phone caller ID spoofing was implemented by a group of Private Investigators around 1999. This group of Private Eyes invested in the equipment nessary to Spoof a call and marketed their service to other professionals in the Private Investigator industry. These serrvices were very popular with Skip Tracers, Bounty Hunters and other investigative professions who needed to remain anonymous during their telephone conversations.

In the next few years entrepreneurs began to start phone caller id spoofing services that were available to the general public. Today Spoofing a caller ID is as easy as calling into an 800 number.

The caller ID spoofing companies now offer a range of value added features. These include recording your calls and having the ability to electronically change the sound of your voice.

Faking caller ID has drawn the attention of Lawmakers from the Senate to the House of Representatives, all seeking to regulate the use of caller ID spoofing. But as of this writing none of the laws have passed and spoofing caller ID is Still completely legal in the United States.

You should also be aware that caller ID Spoofing companies will cooperate fully with law enforcement and the courts during a criminal investigation. They will most likely release their records once a subpoena is issued to them.

From time to time you will see Caller ID Spoofing in the news. Many news agencies from FOX to CBS and NBC have all done stories on Caller ID Spoofing and its uses. One of the widest know stories is when it was released that Paris Hilton was using a caller ID Spoofing service called SpoofCard to harass Lindsay Lohan.