It's Official: Pretexting Is Illegal - News by InformationWeek
President Bush signed a bill last week making a controversial practice known as "pretexting," a federal offense.
The law specifically forbids the act of misrepresentation, impersonation or deception in order to obtain personal telephone information. Just five months ago, pretexting fell into a gray area of the law.
Source: It's Official: Pretexting Is Illegal - News by InformationWeek