I suspect I'll keep getting spam calls from "Rachel. One of the most common voicemails I get is from "Rachel" about a $250,000 line of credit I never applied for. Despite adding my phone number to the registry, I keep getting suspected spam calls that I usually let go to voicemail. You could always add your phone number to the FTC's "Do not call" registry, but it doesn't always work. If the caller does leave a voicemail, you can decide for yourself whether the call was legitimate or not - but if the voicemail asks for personal information like credit card numbers or social security numbers, it's almost certainly a scam. If there's no voicemail, either the call was spam, or the message wasn't that important to begin with. The best way to handle an unknown caller, even if the number looks similar to your own phone number, is simply to let the call go unanswered, and let the caller leave a voicemail. So if your phone number was 1a spammer can set their caller ID to show up as 11. Meticulous spammers can even change their caller ID so they have the same area code and the same three to six numbers after your area code as your own phone number - so that their number looks especially local, as if a neighbor or nearby business was calling. You just became a victim of the so called 'number spoofing'. Since (as you probably know by now) it wasn’t your own number that called. The scammer who use your own number Despite the whole weird sci-fi feel, the answer to this who called me question is quite simple. It often indicates a user profile.Īll the spammer needs to do is pick an area code, find every number with that area code in a directory - like a phone book - use the VoIP service to set their own caller ID with the same area code, and call every number in the list. 'How am I calling myself' Hello, it’s me. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. This means that calls traveling through interconnected phone networks can have their caller ID signed as legitimate by originating carriers and validated.
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