The House of Representatives has passed a bill outlawing all caller ID spoofing

The House of Representatives has passed a bill outlawing all caller ID spoofing "with the intent to defraud or deceive".

So no more prank calls - but more importantly, no more calls from criminals aiming to trick people into giving away banking information.

The sponsors of the bill, Eliot Engel and Joe Barton, cited an identity theft operation in New York City which netted its operators more than $15 million - and another where a woman used the caller ID of a pharmacist to trick a love rival into taking an abortion drug. See Full Story