Back in the day you used to be able to spoof caller ID using in-band signalling. it was like a few fun sounding handshake tones and some static-sounding data that you would play after the official one, and that was called orange boxing. That was the Bell 202 FSK signal and I remember hearing it on landlines up until a decade ago if the phone was picked up as soon as it started ringing.
In Canada caller ID also includes the name along with the number from Nortel equipment, while in the USA it's just number. Nobody I know has a landline anymore except for businesses because if it's just the odd crazy person who still makes a super annoying life-interrupting phone call, more than half of calls are just fraud shit with spoofed caller ID and everything. It's so easy you could get started doing it yourself with freepbx installed on some 5$ VPS within minutes. Honestly we need better telephony systems, but everything is being completely superseded by chat apps anyways. Again only crazy people give me actual phone calls anymore and I have two lines between two countries.
Fun things to do to the fraudsters: Talk really quietly and when they are like 'sir i cannot hear you' put yourself on speakerphone and YELL into the phone as hard as you can, and you win the game when you can hear them rip their headset off in ear pain because they turned their volume up to hear you. Either that or ask them what they're wearing until they get mad at you and call you homophobic things.
In Canada caller ID also includes the name along with the number from Nortel equipment, while in the USA it's just number. Nobody I know has a landline anymore except for businesses because if it's just the odd crazy person who still makes a super annoying life-interrupting phone call, more than half of calls are just fraud shit with spoofed caller ID and everything. It's so easy you could get started doing it yourself with freepbx installed on some 5$ VPS within minutes. Honestly we need better telephony systems, but everything is being completely superseded by chat apps anyways. Again only crazy people give me actual phone calls anymore and I have two lines between two countries.
Fun things to do to the fraudsters: Talk really quietly and when they are like 'sir i cannot hear you' put yourself on speakerphone and YELL into the phone as hard as you can, and you win the game when you can hear them rip their headset off in ear pain because they turned their volume up to hear you. Either that or ask them what they're wearing until they get mad at you and call you homophobic things.