Today we received a call on our landline that oddly enough had our own landline number on it and my husband's first initial and our last name on the CID. We were perplexed, but knew that it was an obvious spoof. If we call anyone from our landline the CID that shows up is my name, never his. My husband called AT&T with his concerns that scammers were spoofing our number to make their scam calls.
We were told that a new tactic telemarketers/scammers are doing is putting your own number and name on the CID to peak your interest and get you to answer. We did not answer, and they hung up and left a screech on our answering machine right as it picked up. Good thing I also programmed my fax machine to pick up, so hopefully they got their own earful.
I wonder where they got his name associated with our phone number, when the account is entirely mine.
This tactic is being used by a couple contractors / solar companies here in So Cal. Apparently it is simple for them to accomplish by either using an internet-based phone system like Magic Jack, or I also understand that it is part of the "toolset" provided to the telemarketers by the middleman companies that lease blocks of numbers to the telemarketers. They can change both fields of the CID to anything they wish. The other "tools" allow them to play disconnected number or not in service recordings to callers who may call the numbers back and to "legally" call you back even more since you had tried to make contact with them by calling them back. They can also specify a neighborhood on a Google map and virtually ring every phone at the same time to try and schedule appointments geographically. Myself and several neighbors who keep track of robocallers have proven this on many occasions.
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KenC
Got one today. Picked it up, as I thought maybe my daughter was calling using our VOIP app over wi-fi, which I think might show our own # as caller ID. It was 'Rachel'!
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Big
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I called the police about this and the cop laughed at me
Why are you calling the police.. was it an emergency or just a scam telemarketer.. really people think before you do stuff.
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Door2Door
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Now, I am starting go get phone calls that appear to come from my friends and relatives! On Caller ID I saw a name that looked like that of a friend of mine. (The ID showed no number.) When I called her back, she informed me that she had not tried to call me at all, that she had also been sick in bed for the last few weeks. I do not post phone numbers with my lists of contact IDs anywhere. I have a suspicion that someone is tapping into my phone line and keeping records of the phone calls that I make or that come to me. (I know who it is. He is an attorney, and has the electronic equipment in his attic to put the installations of the CIA to shame. He has connections with drug dealers from central and south America. There is much more to this story, but you'll have to wait into the novel comes out for all the details.)
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Lola
You may have a point there. There are several Romanian idiots that work in my office building purporting to be brokers, when in actuality they are hackers. If any one performing these shenanigans are attorneys you can report them to the bar association disciplinary committee. Just an allegation would ruin their career, you don't even have to prove anything. Get a prepaid phone and keep changing every month or so. My life has been stranger than fiction. If I wrote a novel nobody would believe it! :-)
Even up here on Talos IV I can tell that your tin foil hat is made of inferior Chinese products. My suggestion would be to seek immediate medical help for your delusional condition. they will even be able to help with those tiny voices in your head that you think are coming from your pet.
Why do people call the cops for trivial everyday problems about scams. Cops are for life & death situations. They should come to your house and arrest you for miss-use of 911.
You don't have to answer the phone. Are you addicted to the ring, ring ?
That happened to me once and I just ignored it, had already unplugged my answering machine so they can't leave any message and it just rings now. So they may think it is an open line. Never called back anyway but thank you for the information.
Do you have a dual listing in the phone book, that is where they may have gotten the second name. When they used my number, there wasn't even a name on my caller id.
I wonder where they got his name associated with our phone number, when the account is entirely mine.
They cross reference the name and address and find your spouse. That's how people find out if you are married or not. They cross reference your info and find out.
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anonymous
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this person pretending to be microsoft company using my name and land line it was scam
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