by KYW's Brad Segall
A Collegeville man is headed to jail in Montgomery County for making threatening phone calls but it’s the technology he used that has prosecutors very concerned.
It’s called “spoofing” and lets a person disguise their voice or change the number that comes up on someone’s caller ID. At the request of a friend, 30-year-old Carmen Veneziale called four women and put their home numbers on their caller ID to make it look like the call was coming from inside the house.
Prosecutor Anthony Gil says the service is legal, but in the wrong hands can become criminal:
“Because I can’t think of anything scarier than getting a call at one o’clock in the morning from my own house with someone saying I’m watching you.”
One victim received a call on her cell phone shortly after midnight…her home phone number came up and the voice said “I’m inside the house.”
A Lower Providence woman has already been sentenced for her role in the scheme. Gil says Spoofcard.com cooperated with the investigation.
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