Number Spoofing: How Scammers Are Masking Their Calls

It’s pretty fascinating how it works. Basically, number spoofing exploits the way phone networks handle caller ID information. When a call is made, the caller ID data is sent along with the call through a signalling system. Spoofing software or services can manipulate that data so the call appears to Continue Reading

Spying on the Scammers

Tonight’s Panorama looked at the fast-growing ‘scam’ call centres that offer employment to previously legitimate call centre employees turning to the allure of high earning computer-scamming criminal operation setting up across cities India – in particular New Delhi. A professional Scam baiter Jim Browning (his alias on Youtube) had managed Continue Reading