BEWARE...Caller-ID spoofing calls

David777

David777

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This last couple weeks I've suddenly received every day maybe 3 to 5 probably robotic generated Caller-ID spoofing calls where they use what seems to be a local number with my area code. At first I would answer and half the time someone would come on with a sales pitch I'd quickly cut short without being rude. And the other half, maybe disappointed with the strong sound of my male voice and not some frail senior, would hang up. So then began just listening without answering and after about 5 to 10 seconds if nobody answers, they hang up. Thus rather certain these are the spoofing scammers.

This link shows how scammers are now doing it and most are from India.


Ways to combat it.

Stop the Madness: How to Block Spam Calls and Robocalls

I also just went through my moto g6 Recents...Call History blocking and reporting all the numbers as spam though apparently that won't actually help given the way these are now being made from overseas where our FCC cannot do much to stop them. In any case if it stops the nuisance then I will know it may be useful. Heck my Consumer Cellular provider may be able to do more?
 

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David, I'm telling you the truth: I get these calls, sometimes over thirty a day, even more. The ringing, constant ringing, of my phone is unbearable. I don't have caller ID on my landline, so I just don't pick up and of course they never leave messages. Others in my area have told me the same: over thirty, sometimes forty, times a day phones are ringing..........I'm tipping over the edge from these constant rings.
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Mondays are usually the worst
 
Pepper said:
David, I'm telling you the truth: I get these calls, sometimes over thirty a day, even more. The ringing, constant ringing, of my phone is unbearable. I don't have caller ID on my landline, so I just don't pick up and of course they never leave messages. Others in my area have told me the same: over thirty, sometimes forty, times a day phones are ringing..........I'm tipping over the edge from these constant rings.
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why have you not got caller ID?...seriously, make this a priority, you can't put up with this nonsense...
 

Pepper said:
Even if I had caller ID, the phone would still be ringing and ringing and ringing.......it's the ringing driving me crazy
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Number one block the callers , once you can see who is calling you can block their calls .. if you don't know how to do it get your son to do it.. also put the phone on mute, just keep it on vibrate...
 
hollydolly said:
Number one block the callers , once you can see who is calling you can block their calls .. if you don't know how to do it get your son to do it.. also put the phone on mute, just keep it on vibrate...
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Well, it's a landline, so it won't vibrate. I could shut off the ringer though, I guess; especially Mondays. Thanks for the suggestion.
I've had my phone ring over 10 times in one measly hour! It's maddening!
 
Pepper said:
Well, it's a landline, so it won't vibrate. I could shut off the ringer though, I guess; especially Mondays. Thanks for the suggestion.
I've had my phone ring over 10 times in one measly hour! It's maddening!
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can you get a mobile phone..?.. then you can control your incoming calls, and then just turn the ringer off on the landline and use it for outgoing calls only..
 
Pepper said:
I have two phones, one cell, one landline which has the same phone number since 1953.
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right so stop giving new people your landline number... only use the landline for outgoing calls and turn the ringer off, unless you're expecting a call...

use your mobile instead, and don't give your number to anyone unless it's family or medical...

Get caller ID on your mobile and block all numbers you don't recognise..

If you get yourself in control of these things in your life, you will not be so nervous.

My husband dealt with all things technical here, including my phones, my computer etc..I left it all to him, so when he left which was like a death it all happened so quickly... I was left to learn how to do all these things myself.. so don't thinnk it's difficult to learn, you're an intelligent woman, if you can control your own life, and situations which get you stressed, then that's half the battle
 
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I get those all the time and don’t answer them. Except for the other day, it had a local name and a local number so I did answer, even though suspicious.

Sure enough a female with a heavy non-English voice “from Medicare” came on looking for my husband (who passed last year BTW).

I very rudely told her what she could do with herself but d-a-m-n the female dog hung up on me before I could finish😂😂
 
What tees me off about these is there is a Federal law called “The No Call List.” If you put your phone number on the list, these calls aren’t supposed to happen, but it is no longer enforced. I only have a cell phone and I just block unknown callers.
 
I've had SafeLink Wireless for the past 3yrs and they were very VERY good about screening / blocking spam. I got very few calls that actually rang through and even then, they were displayed as possible spam.

Now just today in fact ... I have a Consumer Cellular SIM Kit out for delivery. Later this afternoon when delivered, I'll have my old SafeLink number ported over to my Consumer Cellular account and activate the phone with the new SIM.

My hope is that the handling of spam is as good or better ... at least is no worse. But I see that @David777 mentioned being with Consumer Cellular and sounds like I may have high expectations. Time will tell.
 
PurplePower said:
What tees me off about these is there is a Federal law called “The No Call List.” If you put your phone number on the list, these calls aren’t supposed to happen, but it is no longer enforced. I only have a cell phone and I just block unknown callers.
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I guess you don't understand that calls made from OUTSIDE of THE USA, are not effected by a US law? Did you really think that US rules have any effect, out side of the USA?
 
No way I would put up with this. I don't get ANY spam calls, text or emails. I also never answer calls or texts from people not in my contact list. It's probably easier reaching the Whitehouse than me.
 
Don M. said:
It's a rare day when we don't get 2 or 3 of these spam calls. We just look at the caller ID, and if its a number we don't recognize, we just let it ring. I put a call blocker on our landline 5 or 6 years ago, and it has blocked hundreds of numbers....but the spammers just keep hacking more and more numbers.
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When I first put a blocker on my landline, I would get several a day. But now that I even stopped voicemails. Absolutely nothing.
 
Start only giving out your cellphone number. It must have caller id.

One possibility is to set your phone to only 2 or 3 rings before it goes to voicemail.

I sometimes pick up just long enough to stop the ringing and I hang up.

This would be my first choice. Turn off the ringer completely. They don’t usually leave a voice message. If one comes through, you can listen and delete quickly if it’s junk.

If nothing important Do you really have anyone important that calls the landline? Get rid of it.

If you don’t want to get rid of it, at least replace it with one with caller id.

P.S. Your son can send you a text before he calls.
 
Most of the numbers that show on caller ID are spoofed (deliberately falsified, meaning the caller ID displays a number different from the actual number the call is originating from) so it does no good to block them. I generally answer calls from contacts and no others.
 
Once my husband’s cellphone number became the ‘number’ these scammers were spoofing. It went on for days. Even putting a message on saying that he wasn’t the one making these calls, he got a lot of really nasty threats. I’m surprised how many people call back a spoof call.

He even turned his phone off for a few days and it started again. He finally had to pay $40 to get a new phone number.
 
Jules said:
Once my husband’s cellphone number became the ‘number’ these scammers were spoofing. It went on for days. Even putting a message on saying that he wasn’t the one making these calls, he got a lot of really nasty threats. I’m surprised how many people call back a spoof call.

He even turned his phone off for a few days and it started again. He finally had to pay $40 to get a new phone number.
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Really? I change my number twice a year and it's always free.
 

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