It's unfortunate that people use this service for malicious purposes because it has good uses as well, if not essential uses.

Sure, people use it for fun (i.e. pranking friends) but a lot of people use it to conceal their identity or for other privacy concerns. If you have clients, you may not want them to know your home number or cell phone if you have to call from one of those numbers. You can spoof your office number.

Likewise, if you are a victim of domestic abuse, for example, but have custody arrangements with your spouse, you may be able to spoof your phone number during contact so that your true number isn't shown or found out.

Just like many thing out there, people can use different services an what not to commit fraud, harrassment, or other types of crime. I believe the people are to blame for misusing this service, not the service providers themselves.

For your info, as they have not been noted, some spoofing providers include:

www.spooftel.com

www.covertcalling.com

You can find more information on this at these wesbites or by doing a google search for call display spoofing.

Spoofing have been the latest of all the harrasments and ofenses I have been receiving ( anonymous emails and texts and emails to my work place). I get calls in the midle of the night or during the work day and in the caller ID appears the name of friends, family or the apartment lobby, to mention the most used. When I pick up, nobody answers the phone. I've been looking a way to unmask this calls as you can do with the block calls, but so far I've had no luck.

My sister is currently the victim of cell phone spoofing. She went threw college for 4yrs and that all just went down the drain because of these cell phone spoofing. These girls keep spoofing there cell phone and calling police telling them it was my sister calling them. Delaware does not know much about this spoofing, so there is nobody that can actually help her. These girls think its a game and they keep doing it, she's already had 8 warrants on her due to this. And its still going on. I am really starting to worry about her because this is really taking a toll on her. We just don't know where to get help.

I was a recent spoofing victim. Someone was calling my friend in the middle of the night with my number. I filed a complaint with the FCC. I also asked the FCC if an investigation could be launched and if I could prosecute the person who stole my number. I do not take theft of any kind lightly.

My son and his friend were victims of this kind of spoofing in the NYC area - Who should it be reported to? My son (I'll call him Ray) received a 3am phone call on his cellphone from -according to caller-id, his friend "Jay." When he answered half asleep, Jay was saying he needed to know where the apartment key was hidden. My son thought the voice sounded strange and questioned him. Luckily the wanna-be-thief (or worse) used bad language that my son knew his friend would not use and he ended up hanging up. My son thought about it and was worried for his friend so he phoned the police. The police said they drove by and saw nothing strange. A few nights later, the same thing happened again but in reverse. This time Jay got a call that seemed to be from my son who was saying hey it's cold out here unlock the door and let me in. Jay remembered what Ray had told him and he asked the caller something knowing the answer but when the caller didn't give the right response, Jay hung up on him and called my son, who of course swore it wasn't him that just called. The word needs to get out to the public! This could be a PRANK or it could have been a potential murder or robbery! How can we stop this?!?!?!