Monday, 30 July 2007

Fake Caller ID

How to authenticate the caller and how to make sure he is the legitimate person who we know?

SpoofCard allows you to make calls and display any number on the caller ID and change your voice also to be male or female in the real time of the conversation and record your call.

Wow…

It is really amazing. Imagine you could call any one and change your called ID to any numbers you like and your voice also. I can’t understand how this service is legal, Legal !!, Yep..

So, how could you protect yourself from this hack?

Well, I don’t know. Really it is very hard. The only advice here is never ever give personal information on the phone,like your credit number,.

I imagine if some one used me number and my voice also to make fake calls and illegal activities and at the end I’m who will charge.

The question here. How could we differentiate between real numbers and fake one?

As I know the mobile application will retrieve the name of the number appears on the screen from the address book because it use index to refer to name the number.

For example:

Number: 0102655411

Index: 1

Name: Ayman M. Galal

Number: 0100000000

Index:2

Name: Teto Feto

So, when some one call you and the number your mobile received is: 0102655411. It searchs the address book for any match number and it will retrieve the name of Index =1
A lot of threats from this service which already appears. Some banks lost a lot of money because some hackers used the services and made calls to the bank customers' and obtain their credit card and private information with a peace of cake.

It is like old days for open relay on the mail systems. Their should be connection between the number appears on the screen and the caller SIM card.

Reference: SpoofCard

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