The Number On Your Caller ID Is A Fraud-Must Read

fmdog44

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This is from 2019 October/ November AARP Magazine:
Now there are several spoofing apps from Apple and Android app stores we all need to be aware of. Their names are Spoofcard, Tracebust, and Fake Calls Plus. Most are available to 100% of the general public. You enter the number you want to call then enter the number you want to appear on their screen. That is just the start. These apps offer other features like voice-pitch alteration and a menu of background noises. The article author called a person and had the app reveal a police station number and made himself sound like a teenage girl claiming to be arrested and needed bail money (a classic grandparents scam). These apps sell for around $8. So one could enter the number of the local FBI and disguise their voice and scare the daylights out of someone. Or perhaps enter the number of a hospital and tell someone their relative has died. Legal? Yep! "The Truth in Caller ID Act of 2009 makes it legal to spoof Caller ID-unless the intent is to defraud, cause harm or wrongfully attempt to obtain anything of value."
 

fmdog44 said:
This is from 2019 October/ November AARP Magazine:
Now there are several spoofing apps from Apple and Android app stores we all need to be aware of. Their names are Spoofcard, Tracebust, and Fake Calls Plus. Most are available to 100% of the general public. You enter the number you want to call then enter the number you want to appear on their screen. That is just the start. These apps offer other features like voice-pitch alteration and a menu of background noises. The article author called a person and had the app reveal a police station number and made himself sound like a teenage girl claiming to be arrested and needed bail money (a classic grandparents scam). These apps sell for around $8. So one could enter the number of the local FBI and disguise their voice and scare the daylights out of someone. Or perhaps enter the number of a hospital and tell someone their relative has died. Legal? Yep! "The Truth in Caller ID Act of 2009 makes it legal to spoof Caller ID-unless the intent is to defraud, cause harm or wrongfully attempt to obtain anything of value."
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So just lying is OK. I can't imagine where anyone could get the idea that lying is acceptable behavior.
 

That is scary! I'm going to be more careful who I talk to. I'm usually pretty smart about knowing the frauds who call though. I tell them that I am on the do not call list and hang up. I don't have a conversation with them at all.
 
I pick up the phone, and listen. I can always tell when it's a robocall or a phone boiler room operation. I then hang up, and block the number.
 
treeguy64 said:
I pick up the phone, and listen. I can always tell when it's a robocall or a phone boiler room operation. I then hang up, and block the number.
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By picking it up you are telling them it is an active number...When they are searching for an active number, they usually only ring 3 times..
 
The craziest spoofed number I have seen, is my own. This happened several years ago. I didn't answer but I don't answer anyone's call unless they are on my contact list and I see no reason I would be on my own contact list. :)They're still doing this today. Not my number, but I was talking with some friends just yesterday that had this happen to them several times recently. They said they had gotten phone calls from themselves according to their caller id.
 
Ken N Tx said:
By picking it up you are telling them it is an active number...When they are searching for an active number, they usually only ring 3 times..
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I have to pick up. I'm running a business. Once I block the number, it's blocked. Yeah, they may sell my number as being an active one, I get that, but I have no choice. If I ever stop working, on this or that, I'll get a new number and only pick up on calls I recognize.
 

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