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How is that semantics? Fraud is already illegal literally everywhere, so spoofing your number for fraudulent purposes will obviously be a part of that crime.

If this is intended to defend your original claim, you’re being utterly ridiculous. You made a specific claim about caller id spoofing, not fraud.

For example, If you’re spoofing a random number for telemarketing calls that’s just not fraud.



> If you’re spoofing a random number for telemarketing calls that’s just not fraud.

It absolutely is, and in most civilised countries is illegal.

Like, I can totally believe that in the USA where any old lunatic can own an automatic weapon amd nobody gets concerned until he shoots up a school thats the case ye

There’s probably some constitutional argument that you can spoof your number based on something ridiculous like free speech


>in most civilised countries is illegal.

I feel like we’re moving goalposts here and “civilised countries” will sooner than later become “English-speaking countries”, in which case I’m totally willing to concede that you’re probably right.

Very few countries have found it necessary to prohibit CID spoofing.


> I feel like we’re moving goalposts

More semantics. Yawn. Save it for debate club.


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