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Re: [Full-disclosure] Fallacies on Truths in Caller ID scam



Getting back to some very small points here...

----- J. Oquendo <sil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> So with let's say a vendor getting back to me on a problem I have, let
> the company be Dell for this example. Dell has their outsourced vendor
> from Ralwapindi India or somewhere in the vicinity call me, my caller
> ID shows 1800GO2DELL, in this scenario either way you want to cut it,
> Dell is circumventing the "Truth in Caller ID Act". 
Correction: Rawalpindi is not in India. 

If the call is from Dell, then does it matter, if the office is in India or 
Rawalpindi. 1800GO2DELL represents dell.
Please read before you speak: 
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:h.r.05126:

And in that case www.talkety.com is doing something similar from Germany (?). 
And you can misuse their service to have fun making prank calls to people from 
their own numbers.

> Just something for though...
ahem..

-- 
Sincerely

Ajay Pal Singh Atwal

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