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Old 04-12-2007, 05:19 AM
Abo
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Default Re: Skype/tracing users

andy wrote:
> On Apr 11, 5:16 pm, Abo <n...@spam.thanks> wrote:
>> Hypothetical question: If a Skype user (no Skypein, so no caller ID) is
>> using Skypeout to make nuisance phone calls to, say, a BT landline, can
>> that user be traced by e.g. the police?
>>
>> Not that I'm considering becoming a heavy breather or anything; just
>> wondering...
>>

>
> Even if there is a SkypeIn number, it is not sent as caller ID


Didn't know that; I've never used Skypeout

> that there could be more than one country involved


Yeah, that's what started me thinking about it. I bet the police would
get frustrated and give up, unless there was some *serious* crime
involved. Maybe in that case they'd work with their foreign
counterparts. There's nothing like a free trip abroad

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