Spoofing a neighbor's phone call.

That's great you waste their time. These morons deserve whatever crap comes their way for being evil scammers.

I think another tactic you can use is to see if you can get a DTMF '1' as part of your voice mail greeting (actually press '1' during your greeting after a slight pause).  This can trick the robocall into connecting an Agent to your voice mail.  You might get a better idea who the caller is (for reporting to FTC purposes), and if the company behind the call has contracted a 'press 1 campaign' from a telemarketing company, they will get charged for the worthless referral/connection.

The whole point of a robocalled press 1 campaign is to not have live agents talk to answering machines or other people not interested in the 'product'.  This can mess up their supposed technological advantage, and raise the cost of the campaign.

Although, there is the odd campaign which has you to press '2'...

I let my voicemail fill up YEARS ago just because I don't like voicemail. So now when a telemarketer or other such unwanted caller calls me, I don't answer and they get a message saying my mailbox is full. Then I put them under my telemarketer contact group I have saved and marked "send all calls to voicemail".

See, I'm just a pampered housewife. That means I'm out nothing. Time is money for telemarketers, scammers, debt collectors and the like. It's only a loss for them to keep trying their nonsense on me instead of trying on someone else who might actually fall for whatever's up their sleeves this week. For me, it's only mild entertainment to see them try so hard by spoofing my area code and prefix, but definitely not a loss of any kind for me.

Keep trying, spoofers. I'll happily waste as much of your valuable time as you'll allow!

Yep, I've gotten those calls, too. Since I've turned off my answering machine months ago -- my family has my cell number -- I figure they're a telemaggoter. (Love the word!)

It seems to be happening more frequently in the last few weeks here. I just don't answer if I don't recognize the number. And then I block them.

Yes, we've been getting quite a few calls like this lately. First eight or nine digits match our number, or call appears to be from a different area code within our state, with the exchange and first two or three of the last four digits being the same as ours. In one case, the number (and name) were actually someone we know.

BTW, the telemaggoters can only spoof the number, the name comes from the carrier's database for that number.

I've noticed an uptick in the number of calls that "originate" from within the same area code & exchange that I'm located in. Heck, every so often, I'll receive a call from my own telephone number.

Needless to say, I'll let my telephone system's auto attendant deal with the callers.

I had this same problem about 2 yrs ago and called the number back.  That person did not call me but I kept getting the calls from same number.  Bottom line is that any legitimate callers will always leave a msg.  If the msg does not pertain to you, just delete and forget it.  Reporting these numbers doesn't stop them but it helps to know that so many others are being spoofed, spammed, slammed, etc. The government is too busy collecting taxes to do anything about these callers.

Me too & I notice the bogus calls increase shortly after I use my phone.

Same thing happened to me.  These scammers just don't care.

Same here.  Doing a reverse search on Hiya does not show any spam reports so it is likely spoofing going on.  One number did leave a message about some hotel deal but very likely a spoofed number that called.  It is getting close to voting time so wondering if these calls are political in nature.

The first call was a Marriot scam.

These numbers that are calling you are neighbor's phone numbers being spoofed?

Look into getting a call blocker that allows for wild card characters.  The other thing going on is Caller ID spoofing.  The number that shows up is not necessarily the one that is calling you.  The criminals don't care about what number they spoof.