Submitted on Tuesday 16th March 2021
Rejected on Monday 29th March 2021
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Call on the United Kingdom Government to outlaw phone number spoofing.
Make it an offence to facilitate the use of false caller identification numbers. Mobile phone companies, landline providers and internet service providers all allow criminals to use fake caller identification numbers.
Most people throughout the United Kingdom receive numerous calls from criminals trying to either extract money directly from them or extract personal data that can be sold to other criminals. The prevalent method of operating this scam involves using a fake caller identification number. Blocking this number has little effect, because the criminals just fake a new number. In these circumstances the Telephone Preference Service is no help as the criminals are often not UK based and neither are they registered companies
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
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