27/02/2023
SCAMMERS - Spoofing your Phone No.
FYI folks,
My phone # has been spoofed & I have received hundreds of calls from all over Auz from people saying they missed my call ! Literally every 20-30 secs over the past 5.5hrs !
Have reported it to Telstra & they will put a filter on my mobile #, but it won't activate for 24hrs !!!
And there's nothing they can do about it 😞
Have all the scam & phone settings in place, but it's the amount of people that return missed calls that's Very Annoying !!! (not their fault) & the possibility of missed genuine work calls.
Time to turn the phone off for 24hrs 🙂
FYI from Steve…
Here's some info from Telstra on What is call spoofing ?
Call spoofing is where a phone scammer will falsify the calling number to trick a user into picking up or making a call look more legitimate.
It’s a global problem, and it’s unfortunately on the rise over the last few years.
Spoofing occurs when a scammer originates calls, usually via “robocalling” technology, with fake caller IDs i.e. the scammers are using technology to originate calls with legitimate Australian numbers included as the caller ID.
Telstra has strict controls that helps prevent the possibility of caller ID spoofing from arising internally within our own network.
However, spoofing can still occur with calls that reach our customers when originating from outside of our network.
Scammers know that people are more likely to pick up the phone to a number that looks legitimate, rather than one that appears as private, blocked, or from overseas.
Scammers may also call you from spoofed numbers that are “adjacent” to yours. It’s a social engineering tactic designed to increase the chances you’ll pick up the phone. It’s a new type of spoofing that uses your so-called ‘number neighbours’ against you.
For example, if your number is 0400 000 000, they may call you from 0400 000 001 to increase the chances you’ll pick up.
And some people have called by what looks their own number. If you have experienced this, the scammer has spoofed your number and by chance has called you as a potential victim, so that it looks like you are calling yourself.
Call spoofing may use real people’s phone numbers to execute an attack. This can lead to difficult conversations when the victim calls or texts the number back and reaches a legitimate service whose owner has no idea their number is being used in a scam ring.
Now I’m concerned my number may be reported as a scam call when I’m totally not at fault and not making those calls.
