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Old 05-10-2025, 09:55 PM
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As I understand it, the number that appears on the caller ID screen is not the number from which the spammer called. It is a spoofed number that doesn't even exist as a real phone number. So, blocking it does nothing and has no effect on the spammer. For more information, Google "spoofing".