Neither DHS nor FTC has any legislation on this. Florida house had a
bill. Unfortunately, Collection agencies are deceptive by nature as most
other options have been exhausted before an account goes to collections.
I get the same thing here; they once even called me from a number that
had my same last name!!
There is one Alex Lopez (NOT ME!!!!) here in Miami that owes a lot of
people a lot of money. I get calls at all times of the day and night,
they forge the number, and so what do they care about following the FTC
rules!!!!
I feel your pain. I may create an IVR Hell for them, so that I can
transfer the calls to, Hey, Its their dime.
Alex
________________________________
From: asterisk-users-bounces@???
[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@???] On Behalf Of Robert
Goodyear
Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 4:01 PM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Spoofing CID
Yeah I'm thinking either homeland security or some other
identity-critical legislation might be on my side here.
On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 12:40 PM, randulo <spamsucks2005@???>
wrote:
On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 9:26 PM, Robert Goodyear <rob.goodyear@???>
wrote:
> So who out there is aware of the FCC or FTC laws concerning spoofing
caller
> ID for deceptive purposes? There's a collection agency out there who
has my
> wife's name crossed with someone else's, and they are picking numbers
from
> our area code to present themselves as when calling us (over and over
and
> over.) I of course would like to turn this around on them as they
refuse to
> believe who we say we are.
That sucks!
Here's an older article about this seemingly common practice:
http://www.securityfocus.com/news/9822
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