Spam Group FaceTime Calls with over 32 members

I cannot speak for everyone else’s experience but 2 of the people involved in the 1st call admitted starting. They proceeded to ask the others if they would follow them on Tik Tok. When my 14 yo daughter heard what was happening, she confirmed that kids are actually doing this. Her words “prank” to merry new people. And with the pandemic I know for a fact some of these kids are up way late into the night. And trust me, it was very unsettling to me when they continued to do this at least 10 more times.

I’m getting this too! Literally just started ten minutes ago so I searched this and there’s 17 people being added to the call. I’m not sure if they’re the same numbers but they are English numbers (where I’m from)

This happened to me. First call came in at 12:57 am and continued until 2 am. Two people were registered in contacts from a soccer team I was on. I thought I was added to some groupchat by them accidentally. I messaged one and found out she was another victim. I turned my phone on airplane mode and when I woke up, I received 5 more calls. I was really done at that point and called Apple Support and was transferred to Tech Support. Received very few suggestions there other than talking to the complaint assistance at FDC. I also received a text message from one callers in a group chat with 28 other numbers. The word I was able to make out was definitely concerning. I’m ready to change my phone number.

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.

this happened to me last night and a couple nights before that. it is VERY scary, i don’t like that there will legit be 30-50 people on it. I answered it one time & no one else was on the facetime, it was just me. It showed that people were “waiting”... meaning they hadn’t answered either. I blocked them all this morning. But i do not like that it is still going on because it concerns me that this is a hacker or something more!! & especially around 1am. like come on, i get freaked out enough, but i wouldnt answer any more calls from these numbers! because they legit are from all around the world & it’s just scary /:

i got one last night. I suspect my phone number has been hacked or exposed in a data breach. It started months ago with texts and then has gotten more daring with FaceTime. The problem is folks respond to it not realizing that it is a Group FaceTime. Solution DO NOT ANSWER if you don’t know the no. If continues consider getting a new phone no. It’s a phishing scheme in a different way. Also never call back based on texts even if looks legit. Call your credit cards directly using phone number on back of card!

This just happened to me also. I blocked all of the numbers but when I open my facetime app, it says they are still trying to call me. So crazy. I live in Hawaii and none of the numbers are from my area code. Hoping there’s an answer to this soon.

Have received multiple(20-30)FaceTime calls the past 2 nights beginning around 2am. The first night I received a text about 5 minutes before the FaceTime calls started from one of the random numbers and all it said was “haha”. I haven’t answered any and have now disabled FaceTime. All of the numbers begin with the area code that is my area code. Has Apple offered any solutions other than disabling the app?

To supplement this, recently in December I have changed my phone number, unknowingly with AT&T , to a number that some previous girl had owned and had put out to a lot of sources. Now in October I am experiencing these problems, but only after I began using WhatsApp for calls to someone. Extremely annoying repeated calls from FaceTime groups 20+ people ,I have no idea who they are. Did not answer , don’t plan to.

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

This happened to me last night also, I was getting spammed FaceTime calls from numbers I don’t have in my phone and not to mention from the states. It was a very annoying night honestly. It’s confusing me how they even got my number.

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.