Someone’s been spoofing my number

"marshknute" (marshknute) 02/27/2018 at 14:09 • Filed to: None

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Just got a nasty voicemail from some woman claiming that I’ve called her repeatedly despite her asking to be placed on the do-not-call list, and that she is reporting my number to the State police.

Lol

For those who don’t know, this is called phone spoofing; telemarketers spoof their caller ID to make it look like you’re receiving a call from a local number (aka, the first 6 digits are usually identical to yours). People are more likely to answer if they think it’s a neighbor calling.

In his case, Mrs Angry saw my number, which is a similar CT number to hers. I’m bored at work, so I kinda hope the police do call me!

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haveacarortwoorthree2 > marshknute 02/27/2018 at 14:15

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And it’s really easy to do. Had a client once with a competitor that spoofed the client’s number for cold calls and got us sued. $50k in legal fees later (yah me!), we managed to get it dismissed. We could never prove which competitor is was thought because the call recipients never could remember the name of the company being advertised, but relied on caller id for the phone number.

My bird IS the word > marshknute 02/27/2018 at 14:15

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They won’t. The FCC is in charge of that garbage.

Bo Knows > marshknute 02/27/2018 at 14:16

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Happened to me once. I normally screen calls and don’t answer unknown numbers, yet one number repeatedly called me in the span of an hour or so. I picked up the 4th (? Maybe) time and this redneck woman gave me an earful. It was interesting.

Discerning > marshknute 02/27/2018 at 14:17

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These are fun. I had someone call me and ask why I had called them. I assured them I did nothing of the sort. They then insisted that I had called them, rudely demanded that I stop calling them, and used some distasteful language. Feeling frisky, I calmly took back my original response, falsely claimed that I had called them, and told them that I would proceed to call them every day.

Chariotoflove > marshknute 02/27/2018 at 14:18

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This has happened to me too. The first few times, I didn’t know what was going on. This is why telemarketers need to die. We once had an editorial featured in the Dallas Morning News by a telemarketer saying he is just another person trying to make a living. The letter flood in reply was not in his favor.

MonkeePuzzle > marshknute 02/27/2018 at 14:24

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spoofed numebrs are really getting annoying. I live in the 303 area code, just got a call from 303-303-3030

spoiler alert: it was spam

Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) > marshknute 02/27/2018 at 14:28

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I get them like twice a week anymore, and it’s really pissing me off.

I had a real person call me because they’d gotten a call from my number, that really pissed me off. Because at some level that has to be identity theft.

Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies > Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) 02/27/2018 at 14:31

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I get spoof calls like 4-5 times a week. It’s gonna suck when someone whose number I don’t have, actually might need me in an emergency, and I don’t pick up.

marshknute > Chariotoflove 02/27/2018 at 14:36

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Who actually falls for it? Presumably the elderly. Because even if I do answer, I’ll just hang up when I realize it’s a telemarketer.

Duck Duck Grey Duck FTMFW! > marshknute 02/27/2018 at 14:48

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I just had a similar thing yesterday. My number spoofed someone on the East Coast in the afternoon. They texted me and let me know what happened. they were actually pretty nice about it.

marshknute > Duck Duck Grey Duck FTMFW! 02/27/2018 at 14:58

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At this point I’m not sure if I should text/call the woman back to clear things up or just wait for her inevitable second angry call (after the police inevitably tell her there’s nothing they can do).

LOREM IPSUM > marshknute 02/27/2018 at 15:10

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Language nsfw

TheRealBicycleBuck > marshknute 02/27/2018 at 15:12

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And in a different kind of spoofing.... A woman has been giving out our telephone number as her own for years . I can’t tell you how many times I’ve received calls from people trying to get Ms. King to pay her bills. The worst are debt collectors. They don’t believe that my number isn’t hers and since I’m not her, I can’t get them to stop calling. There’s a little nuance in the law there - the debtor can tell them to stop calling and they have to stop, but they don’t have to stop if it isn’t the debtor telling them to stop. At least that’s the run-around argument one of them tried to use on me.

We finally just stopped answering the phone.

marshknute > TheRealBicycleBuck 02/27/2018 at 15:32

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Well fuck Ms. King with a rusty cactus.

Chariotoflove > marshknute 02/27/2018 at 15:33

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This is what I’ve always asked myself. There must be a not insignificant fraction of people who respond favorably, or else the business model would have died out by now. Same with spam emails. But who could such a person be? Do I know any of them? Are they hiding amongst us, masquerading as one of us? So many questions.

e36Jeff now drives a ZHP > marshknute 02/27/2018 at 16:04

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The sucky part is that it’s almost impossible to track it down. I actually work in the telecom business and I’ve seen call traces from spoofed numbers. They look like any other legit inbound call, the most I can tell you is what carrier it came from, but even that’s not going to do much because that carrier will likely see the number as the spoofed one on the outbound leg. Unless the call was placed over a VOIP system(and most aren’t) there is no means of telling where exactly the call came from, you can only narrow it down to a general geographic location. Most often it’s coming from google voice or something of that ilk, and that only gets you an IP address, which is virtually meaningless because it’s always a proxy. The only real way to stop the calls to you is to change your number and make the new one unlisted. If its unlisted the only way it can get spoofed is if someone guesses it by putting a random number in, which is extraordinarily unlikely.

Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) > TheRealBicycleBuck 02/27/2018 at 18:44

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If this is with a home phone that operates through the internet, you should be able to block the numbers.

just-a-scratch > marshknute 02/27/2018 at 19:05

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I don’t answer those. I figure if it’s actually important, the caller will leave a message. They rarely do.

Future next gen S2000 owner > marshknute 02/28/2018 at 09:31

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The question I see is a person better or worse than an automated telemarketing call? I’ve gotten a few and they are always a bit vague then you ask a question and the thing repeats.

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