Spoofing a neighbor's phone call.

Find an old answering machine or a new one that you can leave a very long outgoing message that carries a conversation. Sure you will have to time the pauses and say neutral things that will waste their time. Remember, they called you so the ball is in your court to take bog down  their resources. You can really make it nasty and tell them at the end of the message that they were a fool to listen to the whole thing.

Most of the calls I am getting with spoofed numbers with the same area code + exchange do not leave voice mails or answering machine messages. Some of them have been hanging up after 3 rings. Others will go the full 6 rings I have programmed before the voice mail answers.

Way to inconvenience people you actaully want to hear from.

We own a business in Oregon and our business received an email from someone saying that they were receiving calls and our business name was being used together with a number. I never saw the number before. Our business lines are not associated with the number. I will be reporting this to the FCC. How can they just put an incorrect caller ID on a random phone number? The person who contacted us did not say what the robo call was promoting. But whatever the robo call says it is, it is a scam and the people doing it are crooks.
What to do??

Last week I received eight calls in two days using the same area code and exchange as my landline. Two had what appeared to be "real names', a few had the city and state , one had the same telephone number as the caller ID name. I let  each call ring through since I absolutely refuse to answer any phone calls of numbers that I do not recognize. None of them left a
voicemail, first indication other then the way the calls show up on caller ID, that it is a scam.  Since so many numbers are being spoofed,  even if I recognized the name, I let it go to voicemail. If it is a legitimate friend, they will leave a voicemail. If they don't, most likely it's a scam call.  I also requested those scam numbers to be blocked.

I have recently been receiving calls on my business office phone (I work for a large multinational) and these calls have been spoofed as if they come from within the company.  I answer and it is usually a "press1" to talk to someone to reduce your credit card rate or something like that.  Typically the person who answers is a heavily accented Indian, so these calls are comming from call centers there.  This is getting quite tiresome, so say the least.

These spoofers aren't relentless even if I don't answer.

One (wo)man's 'inconvenience' is another man's peace of mind. My friends who call me know that I screen calls on my answering machine. They still call me  ....

I have blacklisted over 20 different numbers that have spoofed my area code and exchange for my landline phone, and about a dozen or so that have done the same with my cell phone number.  I've even had some lowlife spoof my own landline phone number...the whole 10 digits...showing my name in the CID.  Clearly that's being done to get the victim to wonder how could I be calling myself and answer the call to find out!!

More likely it's just your number came up in the rotation of everyone being called that day while they're spoofing your number.

I got a call with the first six digits of my phone number. The ID was "OGI Fredrick." The robo woman said she was Veronica of Member Services. It was the same old, same old, same old, credit card scam. There is no way to block these evil people. The scam must be worth whatever trouble and expense these monsters expend.

The number and frequency of the "first six digits of the (spoofed) number being the same as those of the number being called" technique are increasing, seemingly exponentially. Moreover, the scammers seem to have gone to a "one-and-done" modus operandi as a way to "outwit" call blockers.

I've cross-posted this tale in the number thread, but thought it's worth sharing here, as I haven't seen/heard of this wrinkle:
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Caller called my cell; I didn't pick it up (too many from the travel scam using 352-2[YZ]-XXXX numbers, "one and done", for me to pick up). About 2 seconds after the ringtone faded out, instead of the "Voicemail Received" sound effect, my phone emitted the "Text Message Sent" sound effect, and lo and behold, a "sent message" to [the subject] number, of which I had never heard until now, with the text,

"I'm on my way"

popped up in my "Messages." I'm not going to pursue the matter by attempting to call this number; I suspect some new form of social engineering is at play here.
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Anyone else hear about this??