On 4/15/2018 8:55 PM, Savageduck wrote:
On Apr 15, 2018, PeteCresswell) wrote
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Per PeterN:
For the forth time this week I got a phone call from a telephone that
spoofs the telephone number of an Apple store.

My cell phone gets fairly-frequent robocalls from numbers on the same
exchange.

The latest thing they do is to spoof both area code and local exchane to make
it look like a call made from your local area. So your number might be
(820)239-1234, and the spoofed number will be (820)239-4321. There are IRS
scams, Police Association scams, Junior Police scams, travel scams, Disabled
Vets scams, international call charges scams, and more. Some are are
nationally local, many redirect to somewhere on the Indian sub-continent, or
Eastern Europe regardless of apparant origin. I just don’t know how I am
going to solve IRS problems by dealing with somebody in Bulgaria, or Mumbai.

With me it's to the point where, if you are not in my phonebook, I do not
answer.

Yup! If it is in anyway important, and the number is not in my contacts they
can leave a voicemail, or text.

On the land line, since starting NoMoRobo, robo and solicitor calls have
dropped from 6-10 per day to *maybe* one per month.

I also use Mr.Number on my iPhone.
http://mrnumber.com
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id1047334922


They don't *just* spoof your local area .. I once got a
spam call that was spoofed as my own phone number.

I recently got some calls where the ID said Western Union.
The number was local. I looked up all the local Western
Union phone numbers and none matched. Obviously
a spoofed number. The next time they called I picked up
and it was a robo from one of those energy company scams.
They haven't called since.

Unfortunately NoMoRobo doesn't work with analog land lines. :-(

A new twist .. I got a call and the ID started with "SPAM?"

Wondering if Verizon is starting to tag some of these
spam/robo calls. Would be nice if true.
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Later...
Ron C
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