Stop calling me. Spoofing.

[Jefe's Dope]

No, I didn't just call you. It was a scammer spoofing numbers using my number you fucking moron.

Edit: I'm not talking about scammers calling me, which they do often, I'm talking about actual people returning the scammers call, but my phone number.

Spoofing.

Caller ID Spoofing

Caller ID spoofing is when a caller deliberately falsifies the information transmitted to your caller ID display to disguise their identity. Spoofing is often used as part of an attempt to trick someone into giving away valuable personal information so it can be used in fraudulent activity or...

www.fcc.gov

 

[ColinW]

Were they trying to reach you regarding your vehicles extended warranty?

 

[Son of Dorn]

Were they trying to reach you regarding your vehicles extended warranty?

Hello. I'm calling you from the credit card company. You car's extended warranty has expired and you or a member of your family has won a vacation from the national brain association.

Please press 1 if you would like to be removed from our list even though we won't remove you. Press 2 if you want to extend your credit card's extended warranty. To cuss vigorously at a human being who should know better, press 3 now.

 

[2aBaC̶a̶]

Curse them all !!!

 

[Jefe's Dope]

Not the scammers, the Idiots who think I called them because my number was shown.

 

[supercorndogs]

I don't answer my phone, so I don't talk to either group.

 

[BytorJr]

The "gubment" was supposed to implement (actually require carriers to do so) shaken and stirred to stop this BS.....but as usual, they either wrote the spec wrong, didn't pass it in congress or some other lame excuse...or perhaps the innovation of spammers exceeds civil service spec writers.

 

[nikonNUT]

Heh... Best one ever was when I got a spoofing call and had to do a double take. The caller ID said the fuckers were calling me from MY number!

And if I don't know you I'm not answering. Just leave a message, maybe I'll call (apologizes to Joe Walsh).

 

[NoDopes]

I get a few pretending to be IRS or something and if I don't call back their issue a arrest warrant. Thing is, people actually fall for this.

Catfisher Pretending to Be Bruno Mars Scams Texas Woman Out of $100,000

A Houston man appeared in court this week, accused of impersonating Bruno Mars on Instagram to romance a woman and scam her out of $100,000.

www.billboard.com

 

[Srgt. Hulka]

LMAO. I just got one...three numbers from my phone number.