Bill circulating in Legislature to end spoof calls

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Source: The Badger Herald

By Sean Kirkby
Monday, February 28, 2011 5:38 p.m.
Updated Tuesday, March 1, 2011 2:03:03 a.m.
Although representatives deny any connection to the recent prank call on the governor, two legislators began circulating a bill Monday that would ban making trick calls masking the caller’s true identity.

Sen. Mary Lazich, R-Waukesha, and Rep. Mark Honadel, R-Milwaukee, authored a bill that would prohibit tricking the call’s recipient into believing the caller is someone they are not for malicious purposes.

“While use of spoofing is said to have some legitimate uses, it can also be used to frighten, harass and potentially defraud,” Lazich and Honadel said in an e-mail to legislators.

The bill language forbids a caller from intentionally providing a false phone number and convincing the person receiving the call that it comes from someone other than the actual caller.

Read more: http://badgerherald.com/news/2011/02/28/bill_circulating_in_.php

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Yeah. Nothing at all to do with the Walker call. Right.