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Compromised phone number?

JRuml — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 22:15:14 GMT

Hello,

I'm getting phone calls every 15 minutes or so from the US numbers (different states). Every time I pick up the person on the other side claims that I called them. Has anyone had issue like that before?

Thank you.

Re: Compromised phone number?

Pop_Eye — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 22:19:37 GMT

Some one has spoofed your number. So YOUR number shows as their caller ID. Then you get the feedback. It can happen to any one and will last a week or so. Set up your phone to accept calls from your contacts list for awhile. You still may get voice mails...then in a week or so....resume back to normal.

Re: Compromised phone number?

softech — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 22:19:38 GMT

@JRuml it could simply be an issue about Caller ID Spoofing. Scammer systems just randomly generated numbers, pretend to be real to fool others thinking a real person call. So, your number not really compromised. I always say, like letterman, people can put anyone's address as return address and doesn't mean anything compromised

advise is to just ignore those calls from numbers yii don't know. It will die down eventually

More info about Caller id spoofing

https://crtc.gc.ca/eng/phone/telemarketing/identit.htm

Re: Compromised phone number?

Yummy — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 22:27:52 GMT

Your number is spoofed so just do not pick up calls from unknown numbers.

Re: Compromised phone number?

hairbag1 — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 22:36:32 GMT

@JRuml

sounds like a common practice called number spoofing...gogle it for further info.

If you're not too attached to your current phone number..it's easy to change your number.

Re: Compromised phone number?

JRuml — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 22:52:03 GMT

Thank you for the suggestion, but I really don't want to change my number.

Re: Compromised phone number?

wetcoaster — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 23:37:39 GMT

@JRuml wrote:
Thank you for the suggestion, but I really don't want to change my number.

You don't have to.

As mentioned above, this should be over in a relatively short time. At least until the next time your number is spoofed.

On my personal phone I am white listing people. I.e. the numbers of my friends and family are on my "prefered contacts" list. I then set my dialer settings to "do not desturb", with the setting that phone number on my starred list are excempt from the DND rule.

So any number that isn't on my white list will not ring and is routed to voice mail. If it's a legit call, say from a doctor's office, they will leave a voice mail to ask you to call them back. Most robocalls on the other hand will hang up after a certain amount of rings and not leave a voice mail (unfortunately not all, though).