Senior citizens seem to be a prime target of spoofed calls that show their own names and numbers. It is not easy to instruct older people in how to react to such spam; they grew up in decades when they could trust that phone calls would come mainly from relatives, friends, and business contacts. Many of my senior friends tell me that they react spontaneously to any call, no matter how weird the Caller ID, because it could be a real call with a mixed-up Caller ID.
As I have advised all too often, keep an eye on senior folks in your family if for anyone. They may not take your advice the first or second time around, but eventually, to my experience, the advice does sink in, more or less, thank goodness.
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Carl
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I'm seeing the occasional robocall where all but the last four digits are spoofed to match the prefix digits in my own number. The rest is apparently random.
Very annoying, as it looks misleadingly local and misplaces blame to some random, unsuspecting third party in my local area.
Sooo true! I get calls all the time from our own local area code with spoofed local numbers. These days, it's impossible to know where any call is actually coming from! I wish someone would invent a way to go around spoofing to identify the REAL callers!!
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myownphone
Just got one of these calls showing my name and number on the caller ID.
But I'm a couple of steps ahead of them. I didn't answer and then added the number to my call blocker's "Reject" list. So next time, the block will just hang up.
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