Spoofing a neighbor's phone call.

The recording of your saying "Yes" to steal your identity is an Urban Myth.  So far there has been no documented cases of anyone being defrauded by such a tactic.  But you are more than welcome to post evidence to the contrary (but no links to news articles that allege the "possibility" of it happening, only actual proof that someone was defrauded or otherwise suffered a loss by having their voice recorded saying "Yes").

Yes! I have had a cell# with the same area code and same prefix keep calling my cell phone and when i call back a female answered saying she didn't call me at all! I actually screen shot my call log and sent it to her via text so she could see how many times "she" had called me. She did the same and there was no trace of my number in the call log! I finally answered the call the last time it came in and it was a credit card collections company (supposedly) looking for someone other than me. They are absolutely spoofing numbers into tricking ppl like us to answer the unknown callers! What's really weird and slightly twilight zone-ish is seeing your landline number on the caller ID to your landline! It looked like my house phone was calling my house phone! Super creepy, and there's no way to block those calls from coming  through

Will you people quit replying to me, I've moved on years ago and don't know how to help you. Try reading past the first post!

Try reading what the ToS says about impersonating other users.

Not a Robo call but actually a live person calling about retirement care or something like that. He had a slight Indian accent. He asked how I was doing and I said great! He said there was a new service available in my state. Something about burial plans and he asked my age. These guys called me on Feb 26 and Feb 27, I went along with the conversation until he got a second guy on the line. (They think I’m Ned Flanders and they think I live in Springfield IL. On previous calls about a home security system I have pretended to be Ned Flanders.)  With the second Guy on the line I stopped their chatter and said I had one question; “Do you maintain a Do Not Call List?”  They apologized for the call and said they would put me on their do not call list. I said the next time you call my goal will be to keep you on the line for 45 minutes. They hung up. I kept them busy for only 3 minutes.

The bad guys just spoof your number less the last two digits .... or, they used a bogus fir six digits and use your phone's last four to try and trick you into answering.  I forward most of my legitimate landline calls to my cell (never give ut cell number). And, I turn the landline ringer off. Thus, no calls.

We really need a means to ACCEPT only those numbers we want to accept and block all the rest enmasse.  I wish we had the capability to block entire area codes and exchanges.

There are blockers that will only let numbers on a whitelist ring through and block others.  As to blocking area codes and exchanges, it depends on the phone or blocker you are using.  I have a cordless phone on my home landline that lets me block groups of numbers, basically an "any number starting with..." type system.  So if my number was 123-456-7890, I can block all calls to my area code and exchange by entering 123-456 as a blocked number entry, the missing digits are treated as wildcards.  There are also separate blockers that do the same and apps for smartphones with similar capabilities.

Good suggestion on group blocking, I'll have to pull out my Panasonic manual and see if it provides this option. Currently I use the call blocking for actual caller id number.

Could someone please explain why spoofing a legitimate number is legal. I would think it would be the same as impersonating another person

It is not legal, but criminals break laws everyday.

I had experiences where robocalls continued to misuse and abuse local phone numbers from the area where I live. Most of the numbers I reported to the Federal Trade Commission's National Do Not Call Registry and 800notes.com start with 865-603 and 4 random numbers. The others would start with 865 and 7 random numbers. In my opinion, this is harassment at its worst because my phone number is on the Do Not Call Registry. I even wonder if the local, state, and federal authorities are doing anything to make a real, big difference in tracking these scammers who are misusing local phone numbers and bring them to justice.

You DO realise the DNC registry is only for telemarketers, right? And only legitimate ones follow it.
And the authorities can't do anything about foreign scammers spoofing local numbers.