I got a third call today with someone saying I had just called them. My phone was in the other room. I did not call these people. But they clearly read me back my phone number and said that when they said hello no one was there, so they called me back. I did not make these calls how is my phone number showing up on their telephone?
iPhone 12 Pro Max
TCelise wrote:
So, three times in three days, some creep just pulled numbers out of the air, that just happened to be my phone number?
is there any way to stop him?
Some years ago, one of my email addresses was used as the spoofed source address for a miscreant’s mass email spam run. The spammer sent out untold spam messages, all spoofing my email address as the source. The high-end workstation I was using at the time was utterly overrun with bounced messages and irate email replies. Continuous new-mail notifications. Took several days for that mess to sort itself, having reconfigured the workstation to automatically delete all arriving mail, just to keep the system usable.
Yes, your telephone number was spoofed. It’s common. Why would a telephone spammer want to tie up their own number, after all? Call your congress critter and complain.
Once in a while, the miscreants will use mass spam campaigns or mass telephone call scams to cause a specific user grief, but that’s somewhat less common, and that usually also gets very obvious. (This is also part of why calling back a telephone scam or emailing a spammer back doesn’t help things. Those replies can make you part of a brigade clobbering an otherwise innocent bystander.)
They got a scam call from some criminal who faked your caller ID. Faking a caller ID is trivially simple in the modern world of Voice over IP (VoIP) devices.
No, "some creep" didn't just pull your number out of thin air. An organized criminal organization generated hundreds, possibly thousands of calls using a handful of numbers generated at random based on the area code and telephone exchange of the (also randomly generated) numbers they programmed their machines to call. The caller probably wasn't even in the same country.
You want to stop them? Pressure your congressman and senator to put more pressure on the telephone companies (landline and cellular) to get their call authentication systems in place and operational.
This problem has been epidemic and is only getting worse.
https://www.fcc.gov/spoofed-robocalls
No, and it’s probably not “him”, most likely its a spambot that is trying to fool the people it calls by using made up phone numbers. It it calling anyone you know, who might be in your contacts? Or in the contacts of anyone you know?
So, three times in three days, some creep just pulled numbers out of the air, that just happened to be my phone number?
is there any way to stop him?
Someone is using my phone number
