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

I had a call on my cell phone last night from my number. It was a recorded msg from verizon saying my phone service is going to be suspended. I hung up before the message was finished, because my bill has been payed and owe nothing.

Just a quick note. It is ILLEGAL for companies to falsify their caller ID information. Fake name, number etc. This is per the TRUTH IN CALLER ID ACT of 2009. 47 CFR 64.1200 (D0(4). They are subject to the $500/violation of the TCPA. Providing of course, you don't get in a court whose judge has his head up his butt...

I’ve been getting calls since yesterday with my name and phone number on the caller ID - I think it’s up to 8 calls right now.  Since this has started I haven’t been getting the calls ID’d as no name with phone numbers in my local exchange.  I guess they’ve changed their strategy.  I wish it would stop but I know there’s a small chance of that happening.  I figure it’s some recording offering a lower interest rate on my credit card, some solar panel company or some group looking for money.

You can blcok your own number, you know. It's not as if you'd be calling yourself from that number.  :-)

a quick note, that is not what that law says.

‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—It shall be unlawful for any person
within the United States, in connection with any telecommunications service or IP-enabled voice service, to cause any caller
identification service to knowingly transmit misleading or inaccurate caller identification information with the intent to
defraud, cause harm, or wrongfully obtain anything of value,
unless such transmission is exempted pursuant to paragraph
(3)(B).

47 CFR 64.1200 is not the Truth in Caller ID act.

The only person who can make you frustrated is....you!  Turn off your ringers, and check messages every hour or so.  Or, better still, if it's a land-line, get a challenge-response type call blocker.  Problem solved.

I just got 2 calls from "Anonymous".... with my own phone number!

I just got a call and my own name and number showed up on the caller id!i didn't answer it and the message was GOODBYE!! then about 5 minutes later same thing happens and the message was longer! much longer!!  a woman said my windows license was comp in many countries and they were going to have to give me a new ip address I needed to call them back right !! so? im supposed to call myself ?? the day is april 23 2019!!

Here's the main FTC website. https://www.ftc.gov/

Tamianth made that post nearly 5 years ago (something I would guess you did not bother to pay any attention to), so it should not be surprising that the Government revamped and reorganized  their websites in that time.

The link does work; it took me to a nice page with a "STOPFRAUD.gov" banner on the top and it is hosted on a server belonging to the Department of Justice (DOJ).  And, there is a nice search field on the top of the page so you can look things up.  This page is, however, the home page for the DOJ's archive of the STOPFRAUD.gov site, but that does not mean that the information there is no longer valid.

If you simply enter www.stopfraud.gov onto your browser, you will be redirected to the DOJ's homepage for the "Task Force on Market Integrity and Consumer Fraud".  (This is what STOPFRAUD.gov has been absorbed into.)  It also has a search field at the top of the page for you to look things up.

The link that Tamianth posted was more than likely posted on the FTC site at the time of her post (5 years ago) , thus her reference to the FTC.  The FTC does not have an obligation to tell the users that links on their site redirect to other Government websites.

So, let's see now... "Explore this..." gave you a link directly to the FTC (and there is a search field on the top of their page too) and I have pointed out that the www.stopfraud.gov link will take you to current information on the DOJ's website.  You should now be set to look up anything you need to know.

OK, I am going to ignore that your post is pretty much off-topic to the subject of the thread (your own name/number being spoofed) and answer your second question.
The answer is for the most part - "Yes".
The scammers play on the curiosity of their victims.  In the case of your own number showing up, they expect a gullible victim to think "How could I be calling myself, I'll answer and find out" and then the scammer plays their game with the person answering the phone.  With the local numbers ("Neighbor Spoofing") they expect their gullible victim to think it is family/friend/neighbor in the local area making the call and feel it is safe to answer.  Again, once the potential victim picks up the scammer will play their game with them.  The details of the scams will differ from call to call, but the main goal is always the same: transfer money from the victim to the scammer either directly (charity scams) or indirectly (information phishing leading to identity theft and/or access to financial accounts).
Fortunately people are becoming wise to these tactics and are coping by either only answering calls from known valid numbers or screening calls via voicemail/answering machines.  Technology can help (call blocking devices/apps/services) but this plague will not start to go away until the telecommunications industry upgrades their systems to include and enforce true caller identification and the Government enacts laws with real penalties (hard prison time and fines that will hurt the criminals and stick even after claims of "poverty") for perpetrating such crimes.