Spam Group FaceTime Calls with over 32 members

So just got spammed by this. Something like this shoud've been patched the first week. Can't believe it's been a month now and Apple hasn't pushed a security update.

I don't really see that as a valid solution. That setting silences all inbound calls that aren't contacts. I'm looking for more control over who can and can't initiate a FaceTime call with me.

I did this. When you do, all of my iMessages get sent as SMS. The dreaded green text box. As soon as I reenabled my cell number in FaceTime my texts go through as iMessages. .

That should not be the case

I made the mistake of answering once, the person on the other end knew my name but I didn’t recognize him so I hung up. They kept calling until I shut off FaceTime. Weird!!

Thanks - I’ll give it a try.

This has happened to me these last two nights quite freaky. Does anyone know what it's about or is it just a nuisance scam.

Another thing that's a bit spooky is one of the main names calling me is ****@ . I wont print the rest of the address but i don't like the inference of badman.

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I agree you should be able to only allow known contacts to call you on facetime. I'm concerned these people may be able to be photographing you

Yes I’m hoping the same! But the other night, I got the calls at 1 in the morning. Then all of a sudden people that were also getting calls starting messaging in a group chat to “stop calling them”. As numbers were blocked, 2 numbers kept adding new people. I blocked those numbers and have turned off my FaceTime for the time being. It has stopped for now, but it’s freaky to me

This happened to me (USA) around 2:40 in the morning. I immediately hung up but almost immediately after I pressed the button I was called back. Seriously creeped me out because none of the numbers were familiar to me at all. I was facetimed 4 times all in the span of one minute before I could block all the numbers! Some of the #s are from Wisconsin & Illinois, and there were some email addresses too. It stopped after I blocked them but I hope someone figures out who/what this is.

Interesting about the WhatsApp. I started using WhatsApp around March and had the spam calls around May, June. Don’t know if there is a correlation. I also have AT&T. I was getting the spam calls for a few weeks with 20+ callers. Turned off FaceTime for a week and haven’t had since. I never answered, but it did freak me out a little.

I just asked her if she has WhatsApp and she does. She said in the night she accidentally accepted one of the calls as she was half asleep and said there was a young teenage girl but couldn’t see anyone else’s camera

Does anyone have any idea what the scam is here? This forum is full of people saying the same thing happened to them but no one has any idea what it’s about. Side note same thing happened to me today, I have no idea what it’s about.

this happened to me a few hours ago only a little more unnerving than what I’ve read so far. I received a call from three people, two with my cities area code and the other from a city downstate. Didn’t answer it, then called them back individually (no one picked up) and texted “who is this?” I know it was probably a bad idea but it seriously could have been anyone. One replied with “wrong number”, the other just sounded confused and asked me twice who I was, and one inquired if it was me, as in knew my first name and wanted to know if this was my number. Freaky. I got two more FT calls, this time a different set but still a group of 3. One of them was a number almost identical to my own, but that number that knew my name was on all the calls. Whatever is going on these aren’t just random spam calls.