Spam Group FaceTime Calls with over 32 members

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?

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.

i do not think it is a tik Tok prank. A prank also tends to be funny after all is said and done. Manipulating peoples numbers to all call each other at one time through face time is not the work of these teenage Tik Tok fanatics. When this happened to me, I was incredibly freaked out, especially when it was happening at 2 in the morning.

But why should any of us have to disable a service for weeks!!!!!! I use my FaceTime every day or two. It’s just crazy to me that these idiots are still calling my phone every day and I can’t stop them even though they’re blocked.... major flaw on Apples part

Agreed. Blocked should mean no more calls period and there should be an option for contacts only should we choose to only speak to people we know on FaceTime. I’m seriously considering going back to Samsung cause I think the breach is so huge. They call relentlessly and I can’t understand how a billion dollar company hasn’t addressed it and thinks it’s ok. It’s such a violation. who knows what they do if you accidentally answer. Can they hack your cell, your camera!!! I don’t know and I don’t want to find out.

serioulsy? why is this still an open issue and continuing? seems like it has been open plenty long enough for Apple to have found a resolution... I mean no one out side of my contact list is supposed to be capable of facetiming me... why am i getting facetime spammed? what is the point even?

I am getting this type of FaceTime Calls with 18-20 total people not my contacts. This is bad what apple is doing about it? Since two days this started, this my work phone so I did answered, all other phone was smiley face, they said Ola, I hung up as soon as I realized it is spam calls.

At 12:30am, I also was part of a 22 member Facetime call. I was relentlessly called. One of the numbers was one digit off from mine. The Facetime abuse was followed by texts of tik tok videos with my Facebook photo as an icon in the corner! I don’t have tik tok and haven’t used Facebook this year. This is abuse and terrorism, using my photo, identification and number without my consent to used as part of this scam. I did not click anything, but have a screen shot.

Apple just needs to add a **** checkbox to SMS, FaceTime and Phone that makes it so you only get communication initiations from contact lists. Anyone who messages me out of the blue that I'm not expecting is 100% spam.

There might be some exceptions to short-codes like Twilio SMS mass messaging, but those services shouldn't be allowing mass spam. I get stuff from random people, random numbers, it's just crazy.

I'm ready to throw all my apple products in a box and never look back. Sad that these billion dollar companies can't spend a day to add 1 checkbox.

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You know what - before I go, I'll say one more thing.

I only use the iphone because iMessage, FaceTime and it's ability to work with my other mac products. If all of these are compromised, I have no reason to use them any more.

Just going to leave it at that.

I understand how you feel. I have messaging on my other devices. They were all going off at the same time that the spam group FaceTime occurred. So do I need to worry about a virus or someone probing my personal information?

I answered the call in the middle of the night because I thought it might have been a family emergency. I didn't bother to check the number because I was half asleep.

Just don't answer the phone to unknown numbers is victim-blaming and deflection. I hope this is not the final resolution.

I wonder what is meant by “scan your cams multiple times”. That’s a strange statement. If anyone has any insight on what that might mean when face-timing strangers, please share your insight.

Thank you for sharing, very helpful.

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

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?