Posted on 01/29/2020 1:24:56 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
We all get robocalls. Sure, there are apps to download to reduce the number of robocalls, but they do not solve the problem. The best solution is to ignore and do not answer any name or number you do not recognize. You can add them to your blocked calls list, but that is pointless.
Because as you probably know, these scammers and spammers hijack telephone numbers to display on your Caller ID. If you're like me; you routinely get calls from your area code and prefix with the last 4 digits being different. I'm not sure why they think this will prompt you to answer; I get 5-6 calls a week from (555) 256-XXXX (example) and of course I NEVER answer them.
But the other day I got a call from MYSELF! My cell number and my name on the Caller ID. I let it go to voice mail and sure enough - it was a robocaller who had hijacked my own cell number. They left a message...
"Please press one now to speak to an insurance specialist representative..."
I couldn't believe it. Did I accidently call myself? I then called my number - it goes to my personal voice mail greeting prompt. So. This was no mistake.
About 4-6 weeks, our home phone rang.
My wife picked up the phone and started laughing.
Our Comcast home business phone and number had dialed us.
Some how the call went through.
They didn’t actually hijack your number.
They just spoofed it in caller ID.
IF they really hijacked your number, then all the outbound robo-calls made from your number would show up in your phone bill/statement.
Well I talk to myself and I hear other voices that talk to me and Sometimes I hear my Own voice calling me.
But that’s a whole bunch of other issues...
I had a call once that had a strange tone. When I went back to my computer the camera was on.
Yup, happened once so far.
Fortunately I know the guy who owns that number - he’s a jackass - so I didn’t bother to answer...
Yes, I did about 2 years ago. I had been receiving robocalls - all from my exchange, which I routinely blocked, but when I received a call from my number calling my number I wasn’t sure whether to block it or not. I decided not to.
Had it happen to us. Our biggest problem is when they use our business number and we get a call back from an irate person wanting to know why we keep calling them. They’re generally apologetic when we tell them it wasn’t us.
They can spoof any number they want to. To use the number they’re dialing is a bit of humor/cynicism on their part.
I called myself once, and I answered.
I wanted to be sure it was me, so I asked me a question.
“Where were you born?”
“In a hospital.”
I knew it was me then.
I Do remember first getting calls with my area code and first 3 numbers :)
I was confused for a minute but by the 2nd or 3rd call I realized what was going on.
somebody probably thought that was the greatest idea since...the last dumb idea :)
So far just today, I have had my final call for lower credit card rates four times and three from Apple insisting an I-cloud account I don’t have has been breached.
That’s awful man.
Vultures.
Yep...on my landline.
Yep. On both land line and on cell ... caller ID is the same number as the device I am on.
I’ve received several calls from myself. Pretty weird. Like you I ignore numbers I do not recognize.
They’re just spoofing the ID information... you can make the number read whatever you want, or nothing at all.
You are correct.
One time I didn’t answer a robocall and I had an auto-reply...
“I’m sorry I can’t take your call right now”.
I soon got a text back. From a real person. “Who is this?”
Same thing happened to a friend.
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