Received call with my own name and number in caller ID!

That's was nice of you to furnish that info.  I copied to a document for future reference.  Thank you.

Now we know this is a scam.  Make with the air horns, and etc, to blow away their ear drums!  Get them to answer the phone, and have some fun!!!




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For the past month (May-June 2014) I get 3-4 calls a day from my own phone number - it's a credit card scam recording.  I'm going to see if I can block my own number, but not sure it it will work.

Why can't the government track down these harassing crooks?  They' always change their number so blocking them isn't a big help.  It's really getting me mad.

I just got a call from my husband or so I thought. I'd just called him but wonder why the caller id looked different since I have it labeled his call. It showed no phone number just his name. I answered & it was Card Services. I hung up. They have bugged us for about 6yrs now. I hit an arrow on caller Id & it showed our home number. Very odd. A Google search led me here.

I never answer the phone if I don't know who it is but lately we got at least 6-7 calls a day. It's frustrating & very annoying. Some start as early as 9am. That's early in our home. I just wish they'd stop. We have asked a number of times & filed reports with the Don't call me list. Nothing stops them. Now they go & use our own name & number?

I just got a call like that. I didn't answer. Figured it was spoofed.

We received the same type of call yesterday, showing our number on our Caller ID along with our name. I plan to report this call to the FTC on Monday.  Hope all of these people that do these sort of things, will be paid back 100-fold!

>>> Why can't the government track down these harassing crooks? ... It's really getting me mad. <<<

Here's a little secret: they can. The question is, why don't they go after them? I can think of two reasons.

(1) The calls come from call centers in foreign countries favored by large US companies that use these companies to save money and justify firing hard-working, honest Americans. These countries have little interest or ability to control the dissemination and use of the information they collect from you once it's exported; their motivation is to maximize short-term profits.  These corporations own the government, so you would have to fight them to get anything done.  And they have more money than you do.

(2) The call centers are in countries larger than the United States and which compete with us either economically or militarily (or both). They don't have any interest in assisting us in bringing these criminals to justice, thus, for us to do so would require a breach of the sovereignty of these countries.  But that could possibly precipitate a world war that we would probably lose, because our defense is dependent on technologies we purchase from these countries.  (We exported almost all of our manufacturing jobs, if you recall.)

I might go along with you if you wanted to fight battle (1) above, but I would get pretty pissed at you if we had to start a nuclear war just to avenge your sense of phone rage.

I got a call showing my own CallerID info, including the first 15 characters of my full name, which truncated all but the first 3 chars of my last name.  They didn't leave a message.  I'm in middle Georgia, USA.  I get a good many scam calls daily even though I never answer any calls.

Obviously, this caller is trying to trick someone.

The exact same thing just happened to me today!!  Same kind of company!

but it was on my husbands cell phone, the caller id number was one digit off from his. It was a recorded message wanting us to refinance a credit card...but we don't have any credit cards.

The same thing happened to me this afternoon. Got a call from my area code about 20 minutes before this happened. I answered. Then later I got a call with our name and phone number showing up. I immediately called our phone company. They suggested getting number changed due to being spoofed. I then got a call from someone asking why I had called them. I told them it was not me that our number had been spoofed. Number will be changed--after having it for many years!! I hate this!! By the way,I reported it to our police and they suggested getting the number changed with unlisted information.

Your best defense against these tele-scam scumbags is to NEVER answer strange Caller ID listed calls--especially the ones that say "URGENT" or something like that. Spoofed disguised phone numbers, shown on your Caller ID are easy ( but expensive ) to use in hiding the true source location of the phone call.

A) Remove your custom personal outgoing voice mail recording; use the one that came standard with your phone. Remember: You DO NOT want to have the tele-scammer YOUR home number is a potential "mark" for some scam.

B) DO NOT use your Call Blocking feature on these tele-scam numbers; it's pointless, may add charges to your phone bill and Call Blocking WILL tip the con artists your number is a "live wire" one.

C) Legit companies / businesses record voicemail call back numbers. The few tele-scam outfits who do leave voicemail messages ( even the pre-recorded ones ) are amateurs, likely running fast out of money to maintain their expensive tele-scam ring.

C) Every tele-scam call YOU NEVER answer is a step closer to kicking them in the balls!!

Same thing happened to me yesterday afternoon. I didn't pick up the phone, just let it ring out (answering machine is off). Such a pain in the #%^*. Did feel like the babysitter in that movie where the call comes from inside the house.

>>> Did feel like the babysitter in that movie where the call comes from inside the house. <<<

To me, it evokes the scene in "Being John Malkovich" in which Mr. Malkovich, himself, is pulled through the portal into his own brain.

"At one point Malkovich enters himself through his own portal, which is kind of like being pulled down into the black hole of your own personality, and that trip results in one of the most peculiar single scenes I've ever seen in the movies."
-- Roger Ebert review (four stars)
http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/being-john-malkovich-1999

I'm showing my age here, but this movie too!

This House Possessed (1981)
After having a nervous breakdown, a rock singer has to spend some time in hospital. A private nurse is hired, and with her he buys a new house, a fant...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083192/