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Senate approves spoofing bill criminalizing misrepresentation of caller ID
Utah State Senate · March 11, 2015
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Summary
House Bill 214, which criminalizes changing caller ID to impersonate others (commonly used in scams), passed the Utah Senate after senators shared personal anecdotes of scam calls targeting families and elderly relatives.
The Utah Senate passed House Bill 214, a measure that makes it a criminal offense to misrepresent telephone or text identification (commonly known as caller‑ID spoofing) when used to defraud or facilitate scams.
Senator Weiler, who presented the bill, described it as aimed at scammers who falsify caller information to…
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