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

Was there any way to actually lose the argument?:)

Only if she had a split personality and one was very persistent.;)

Talking to one's self is one thing.  What I hate is when I lose the arguments.

Three and a half years, 1020 on my black list.  97 on my white list.

we have or they use a area merchant like  a CVS or  church then they say they will refinance a school loan or a credit card .How do they do it??????

Scammers are always trying to trick people into answering the phone.

The Caller ID number is falsified. Your TSP (Telephony Service Provider) looks up that number and then shows the CNAM associated with that number.  Sometimes the number has no CNAM associated with it, such as cell phone numbers. Sometimes it is the number of a legitimate business that has nothing to do with the scammers, or is the number of a residence.

This falsification is called spoofing.

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How do they do it??????

Your answer was just a post away, if you would have read the next post after the one you replied to.
I bet you did, but wanted a "spot light" spoon feeding. Just inches away from that "reply" button was the words " its called call spoofing." and "phone spoofing explanation" and hard to miss, for someone really wanting to know.

"How do they do it??????"   Magic.

Yep, all smoke and mirrors.  I saw David Copperfield do it while hiding the Empire State Building, an Elephant, and the Statue of Liberty! :)

I met him once. Cool guy.

I put it in blocked numbers list on my landline too. so weird. stopped for like half a day and then the next day it was the same thing with my name and my number except with a weird character in front it. darn! I was this close to fixing the problem. for me its not credit cards its more of a computer thing. they say they are from microstf whatnot and its a computerized recording each time so there isn't an option to push one to be taken off the list or whatever. so I cant even answer no in person. they just keep calling back. so far they have stopped. but nowadays they are still calling but using numbers that make it look like its a toll free company 1800 or out of area number. and yep they even left the same recorded message on my machine when normally they call and if I don't answer they just hang up. nice of them to leave a message, but sure wish theyd just take the hint. anyway it happens. and im glad im not the only one.

I have fought this war a long time. Blocking numbers, prefix, and area codes. Still they call. Changing name or number they call from. Always the same people, same scam or sales pitch.

So after consideration. I simply did a global block of all numbers. Then programed in the select few numbers I ever expected to get a call from. The calls have dwindled from all day long to just a spattering of attempts during the week. The phone is once again a tool to use as needed and not a constant source of irritation.

Everyone programmed into the phone have no problems getting a hold of me.
All others never even ring the phone.

Happened to me too and it was offering me zero percent interest on all my credit cards. What makes my blood boil is that our telcos have such atrociously poor security with their exchange switchgear that it can easily be hacked and false numbers substituted for the apparent source of the call. Time for the CRTC in Canada and the FTC in the USA to step up to the plate and impose regulatory control over telco switchgear security since they're clearly refusing to do so on their own.

No one is hacking the telcos to substitute false numbers! They're just spoofing the numbers.

Thats wonderful that you only read a post from 5 years ago and ignored the following 80 pages, just to post how uninformed you are about the phone system. Perhaps if you read those 80 pages or at least read the last few, you might have learned something.