Spoofing a neighbor's phone call.

Have you tried posting in the correct thread?  Type the number that called you in the search box and post there.  Super simple and is the appropriate place to share information about the call.  Posting in here is of not much use to others.  Waisting their time (the scammers) and having them cuss at you is not a good idea.  They may spoof your number next and you risk getting more junk calls.  Please use common sense.  Thank you!

pb seems to prefer boasting about wasting their time as opposed to actually posting anything useful. They have quite a few posts in this thread alone that say pretty much the same thing.

I completely agree.  I wonder if it is one of the minions working for PPP or one of his associates.  Very annoying regardless.

Because that one mis-spelling was the whole point of that post. :-P

"This makes me think the call centers who are providing the software are actually developing their systems to assist illegal robo call techniques"
Yes they are, they fraudulently spoof caller ID within your local area code with a few "random" numbers mixed in.  Two big problems -- 1) SIP has basically no security, the end user (in this case filthy scammers) can feed in whatever caller ID number they want and the phone co equipment happily passes it along.  2) From what I've read, when the FCC has caught up to illegal robocallers (usually in Florida!), they have told them "here's your fine" (they call it a notice of forfeiture), please cut it out.  They DO NOT seize their illegal robodialing equipment!  So then the scammers can turn the equipment right back on, or sell it to another scammer who just turns it back on!

Even if the FCC did "seize their illegal robodialling equipment" it wouldn't stop the scammers for long. All they'd have to do is get more eqiopment.

Robo call about credit card interest rates.” The caller ID showed a number with the first six digits the same as my cell phone.  I pushed one to talk to someone. I was transferred to a woman with maybe an Indian accent.  She explained that she could lower my interest rate on my credit card.  I let her talk occasionally saying yes. I pretended to have 20,000 in credit card debt.  She transferred me to a guy who asked if I had any questions. I said do you get paid well for this job? He said he did not understand. I said do you ever get angry people on the phone? He said are you angry? I said no I’m just concerned that you do not maintain a do not call list and I continue to get these calls even though I ask you to not call. He said these calls will never stop. I said I am aware of that so that is why my strategy is to waste as much time of yours as I can.  He said is that it? I said yes. He hung up.  I kept them busy for 5 minutes.

I get lots of of phone numbers that look like a local number.  One even showed my neighbor's name and phone number on my CID, but was a scammer.  Some of the local numbers shown are non-existent according to my phone company, so there isn't much that can be done to report this.

Quote:

my strategy is to waste as much time of yours as I can.

Not only theirs, but the call recipient's as well. Instead of "wasting" time, why not try gathering useful info about the caller and post it in the number thread, where it will have much more usefulness.
The "story-teller" posts are pretty boring, useless and just pollute the threads, burying the useful info.

I think that's all pb wants to do - pollute the threads & bury useful info.

Something tells me that PB is nothing more then another appointed site troll playing the victim game with the intent of getting this site shut down because their cash flow is in danger of going into the red.

Advice for PB:  Just stop trying to polute this thread we know what your pathetic little game is.

Quote:  "I've answered a few and tried to sound as gullible as possible, and still they hang up on me. It must be my attitude shines through"
I've noticed this same thing.  I wonder how they make any money off these scams.  They are very quick to hang up on me, only to call back later with the same scam.

I've noticed I do NOT get these calls on my Google Voice number.  My question is why can Google Voice screen out these scam callers, but normal phone companies can't?

The solution seems to be to use my Google Voice number as my phone number from now on, and use a whitelist on my android phone, only allowing my Google Voice number to ring through.  If you don't know about Google Voice, it forwards calls to any landline or cell phone number.  So, somone calls your GV number and it is forwarded to your cell phone or landline phone.  I am thinking about getting a new cell phone, junking my old number anyways, and this time around I will not set up voicemail on the new cell phone line.  So callers to it will not be able to leave a voicemail for me.  Then I will silence the ringer for all calls except my Google Voice number, so at least I won't hear them ring, and they won't be able to leave me a voice mail.