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I just had a phone call come in on my landline. It showed up as a person's name and local phone number. I answered thinking it was one of my wife's friends. Instead was a recording that said if I wanted a lower interest rate on a credit card. I played along and spoke with a man with very heavy foreign accent - Indian, I guess. I asked for the person whose name showed on my caller ID - knowing already what happened. He hung up.

I then called the local Villages number that showed up on Caller ID and told the lady what happened and that her number had been spoofed. She knew nothing about the call, of course, but seemed very interested in hearing about spoofing.

Even with the "nomorobo" I use on my phone, some jerk finds new technology to get people to answer the phone.

Is there a special place in Hell that those telemarketers will have to listen to phone calls for eternity?
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We've actually received calls from what appears to be our own phone number! Of course we didn't answer since we didn't want to talk to us. :-)
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I've had people call and insist I called them, when I did not. I suspect my number has been spoofed.

I give in to my inner child and find ways to torment them now.
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We've actually received calls from what appears to be our own phone number! Of course we didn't answer since we didn't want to talk to us. :-)


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I had one just yesterday. I never, ever, answer my phone unless I know who it is, but it was a girl's name with a local number and like you I thought maybe it was someone we know. It was not. She started to sell something and I hung up.
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I just had a phone call come in on my landline. It showed up as a person's name and local phone number. I answered thinking it was one of my wife's friends. Instead was a recording that said if I wanted a lower interest rate on a credit card. I played along and spoke with a man with very heavy foreign accent - Indian, I guess. I asked for the person whose name showed on my caller ID - knowing already what happened. He hung up.

I then called the local Villages number that showed up on Caller ID and told the lady what happened and that her number had been spoofed. She knew nothing about the call, of course, but seemed very interested in hearing about spoofing.

Even with the "nomorobo" I use on my phone, some jerk finds new technology to get people to answer the phone.

Is there a special place in Hell that those telemarketers will have to listen to phone calls for eternity?
Same thing here. Saw a name and thought it a customer of the hubby's. Nope it was a sell your timeshare call.
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We've actually received calls from what appears to be our own phone number! Of course we didn't answer since we didn't want to talk to us. :-)
That reminds me of the time I bought some instant water, but then I didn't know what to add to it.
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This situation is worsening, seemingly by the day. Today I received about 10 calls on my landline showing all kinds of origination numbers on my caller ID. Although I answered none of them they are truly annoying. I need my landline for several reasons and I do not want to give it up. Hopefully something will be done about this soon.

Back in the mid 1960's when I was first married we would get solicitation calls at dinner time. No caller ID then, of course. I finally hung a police whistle next to the phone and upon occasion spoke softly until the caller was listening closely at which point I took a big breath of air and blew the whistle into the mouthpiece. Revenge can be sweet. Oh, BTW, the calls diminished in number.
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I thought the solution to the problem was to own only a cell phone but alas my cell phone is also now victimized
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I get emails using my own Hotmail name and account. How they do it I have no idea.
The amazing thing is, I have morphed from a old geezer, into a blonde Russian sex bomb!

Going to use the ladies restroom soon, to see how well the disguise holds up!
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We've actually received calls from what appears to be our own phone number! Of course we didn't answer since we didn't want to talk to us. :-)
That's happened to us as well. And now some of these people seem to have got my cell phone number. And the only people I have given that number to are my parents, my female nurse friend and I few businesses that requested it. I do get a lot of calls from both the Republican and Democratic parties too. Pick those up on occasion.

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We have a landline....have had a smattering of calls with a person's name with number on our Caller ID. We screen ALL of our calls and don't pick up unless someone we know begins to speak. Most of our friends know this and if it's a business it doesn't matter as we'll pick up then too.
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]I've had people call and insist I called them, when I did not. I suspect my number has been spoofed.


We have had the same calls.
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