The phone rang a few minutes ago, and it showed that the local school system was calling me. When I answered, and Indian man I could hardly understand was trying to sell me something. I called the number displayed on my Caller ID and got the school. They know this is happening, but they haven't found a solution. This is horrible! You could get a telemarketer calling with the ID showing any friend or relative. I won't have my Call Blocker block the number because the school might call me for some legitimate reason.
You know, I had a call from someone that had the same area code and prefix as my phone call me too. It was a sales call too and figured that they would have better luck that I would pickup the call if my caller ID saw a local number and they were right. I did pick up. From now on, if they aren't in my list of contacts I'm not picking up unless I know that I just placed a Craigslist ad or something like that.
n3eg
Loc: West coast USA
It's caked spoofing, and it's nothing new.
I had a call that listed the number as my home phone from my wife...we were both having dinner...go figure!
IMHO, spoofing should be illegal, but good luck getting Congress to move off its *** on something that might have some meaning for Americans.
Depressing. I can understand it being legal for some very limited uses, but those uses should be controlled. Opening this up to the entire population is ridiculous.
they just don't give up. please someone design an apps tat makes their phone system explode when you press the star key.
I'll block a call from a marketer and the next day, it's the same marketer calling from a number just a few digits different.
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The phone rang a few minutes ago, and it showed that the local school system was calling me. When I answered, and Indian man I could hardly understand was trying to sell me something. I called the number displayed on my Caller ID and got the school. They know this is happening, but they haven't found a solution. This is horrible! You could get a telemarketer calling with the ID showing any friend or relative. I won't have my Call Blocker block the number because the school might call me for some legitimate reason.
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I NEVER answer the phone unless I know the person/organization /number. Mine said USA Govt. ...........Nope ........Straight outa' India. CLICK !
I answered one in a very quiet voice, "He's dead, but there's blood EVERYWHERE!". I don't know why they just hung up.
The same thing happens to me only its e-mails,same name as my e-mail friends.They turn out to be sale pitches.
jerryc41 wrote:
The phone rang a few minutes ago, and it showed that the local school system was calling me. When I answered, and Indian man I could hardly understand was trying to sell me something. I called the number displayed on my Caller ID and got the school. They know this is happening, but they haven't found a solution. This is horrible! You could get a telemarketer calling with the ID showing any friend or relative. I won't have my Call Blocker block the number because the school might call me for some legitimate reason.
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I'm surprised you are still going to school, Jerry.
I got a new one Saturday. It looked like a hand addressed greeting card. Inside also looked handwritten, it was a sales pitch for hearing aids.
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