Spam Group FaceTime Calls with over 32 members

My lady has had that happened and I thought it was some other guy so I answered for her, it was a bunch of young girls from different timezones the and everyone had there masks on luckily I had mine on too because when I answered they took screenshots. They also were asking if I wanted to be their friend for some odd reason. My lady still gets mass FaceTime calls

Sadly, the best is to disable FaceTime until this is fixed. In my experience, it is impossible to block numbers as part of the exploitation is to add random numbers faster than you can block. It is not that there are so many numbers in the chat, as this is the exploit to keep the call from being blocked. My guess is that this is from a hacked iPhone or app (~10 lines of code could drive this exploit- look for swift FaceTime for how easy this is). I have reported the exploit to apple and others. Will be looking up some security researchers to spread the word. I suggest that you report this to local/national news organizations and those that report or track security concerns like this.

This just happened to me!! It’s freaking 2:30A and I have been woken up by random FaceTime. I debated where to answer when I did I was met by a young man and woman. The girl saw that I answered and asked “If I liked balls in my butt” I’m going to be mad as heck if this is going to continue. After reading all the comments I’m just going to keep my FaceTime deleted for the time being.

I continue to receive these calls. With block on, it still rings at least once and because they call back or re-add me to the call, it rings several times per attack. Happens once or twice a day and not consistent. Certainly the work of bored teenagers based on the conversation on the other end if ever answered.

My girlfriend got a strange FaceTime where it looked like room with red light and it had what sounded like a random message on loop over and over. We couldn’t get the app to close so I had to turn the phone off. When I turned it back on the call came again and this time we hung up and after that it didn’t happen again. It was creepy and I’m just curious if anyone else has had this issue?

This happened to me 2 nights ago. I received about 20 FaceTime attempts in about a 45 minute period. I ended up having to block every number on the thread. That seems to have stopped it.

it’s AMAZING that Apple doesn’t 1) have a decline feature 2) doesn’t have an option to not accept facetime from people who aren’t contacts. This could be easily solved, Come on Apple!!!

Two ways to stop this for a bit: One is to go into facetime settings and make it to where your number cannot be facetime, 2 is to disable facetime all together for about 45-Half an hour. Hope this helps.

I answered one thinking it was a work call. About 15 numbers on the call. The person knew my name but I had no idea who he was. I hung up immediately. They called back about 5 times after that, each time with more people on the call. I finally shut down my phone. It’s happened about 5 or 6 times since then - sometimes 2am or 5am. I blocked the numbers but it doesn’t help. I think they have figured out they can get around the robocaller apps by using FaceTime. Very frustrating!

Yes they have been texting non stop I keep blocking and more pop up . Then they try FaceTime me over and over again all hours of the night . I just turned FaceTime off . Never answer these FaceTime calls their trying to get your face so they can hack into your phone !! Really Apple needs to do something about this !!

Yes, I am having the same trouble too. I asked one of the numbers how they got my number. They said a random name gave it to them. I know none of these people and this is the second time it happens, the first time was a month or so ago and it's happening again now.

Just to be clear. I can't use the word Fuck here, which is really the only appropriate word for the situation, but you can sell me a system that allows me to be harrased for 20 minutes until I disable the system you sold me.

Yea, that makes perfect sense.

You can block FaceTime users but there are generally about 20 people on the call and it hard to tell which number started it. Also, they keep changing the numbers. For me it started again this evening - they called about 10 times in a row. I ended up turning FaceTime off. So frustrating.

I blocked the numbers the first time it happened then on the second night it happened the blocked numbers were still able to get through. I decided to see how long it was going to go on for, and tried to call the numbers back and they had blocked me.

This has been happening to me for the past 2 days and I’ve disabled my FaceTime and that helped me with the spam group calls however, the same FaceTime group calls are sending me iMessages and I keep receiving them even though I blocked every number.

Because this is a spam thing, I'd go one step further. It's possible that you could be invited to a facetime call with a few strangers in the group, but highly unlikely that you don't have ANYONE from your contacts in the call. So a good option would be block or silence all facetime group calls that don't have a known contact in them.