This happens to me a lot and I’m not on Facebook. I’ll get a call from a number that uses my prefix and I text back “I’ll call you back”. Then I get a text back that says “who is this?” I’ll text “you called me.” They text “no I didn’t”. Telemarketing companies must’ve found a way to steal numbers for a short period so that the recipient sees a number that looks “friendly” and they answer.
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“Telemarketing companies must’ve found a way to steal numbers for a short period so that the recipient sees a number that looks “friendly” and they answer.”
No it is a “welcome to the wonderful world of VOIP” calling (Voice Over Internet Protocol). Very smart users of VOIP technology - Skype, Magic Jack, etc (making phone calls over the Internet), learned that using VOIP the caller can make it look like the phone number they are calling from is any number they want it to be. By the time the call leaves the Internet and is traveling through the cell phone or landline systems, the IP address the call originated from is gone, and the systems just processes the call (even if it is to the same number being passed as the number is being called from).
“They” wanted the Internet “open” and they got it.
They aren’t stealing the numbers, they’re just misidentifying who they are. They don’t even have to know who you are, but simply use an auto dialer and inject the called number as the source numbers’ ID.
It isn’t exactly stealing numbers. They use robot calls that dial all numbers. Do NOT answer.