New spam marketers trick.

[DavidS]

i just received a phone call on my cell phone where I was listed on the Caller ID. It was a recording about lowering the interest rates on my credit cards. I went ahead and pushed 9 to speak with an operator. When they answered I asked them how they got my number and used my own # to disguise the caller ID. The person promptly hung up on me.

[DP]

I've gotten calls that show a five or six digit number on the Caller ID. Didn't even pick it up. Of course, no message was left.

[hal]

Don't EVER press '9' or any other number during a spam call. It won't ever get for you what you hope it might.

[mikebw]

Phreakers have been able to spoof phone numbers for many years now. Techniques have probably just filtered down to spammers.

[DeusxMac]

http://forums.macresource.com/read.php?1...sg-1813872

[RAMd®d]

i just received a phone call on my cell phone where I was listed on the Caller ID

I've received many of those on my landline, but not yet on my 'Phone.

I've also received calls with CID showing the pound sign (#) instead of numbers or an unusual number of numbers in odd orders.

I've yet to receive spoofed calls with CID numbers of people I know or from my contacts, as in the case of spam email.

If the number isn't known to me, or on my landline, if the name and number isn't known to me, I just don't bother.

[cbelt3]

caller ID Spoofing is ALWAYS illegal. The only reason you would have to ever answer one of these calls is to collect $10,000 from the caller. But since most of them will not identify their company, you're SOL.

https://www.fcc.gov/guides/caller-id-and-spoofing

"FCC rules on caller ID spoofing

Under the Truth in Caller ID Act, FCC rules:

Prohibit any person or entity from transmitting misleading or inaccurate caller ID information with the intent to defraud, cause harm, or wrongfully obtain anything of value.
Subject violators to a penalty of up to $10,000 for each violation of the rules.
Exempt authorized activities by law enforcement agencies and situations where courts have authorized caller ID manipulation to occur."

[OWC Jamie]

DavidS wrote:
i just received a phone call on my cell phone where I was listed on the Caller ID. It was a recording about lowering the interest rates on my credit cards. I went ahead and pushed 9 to speak with an operator. When they answered I asked them how they got my number and used my own # to disguise the caller ID. The person promptly hung up on me.

It's likely not a 900 call back scam, next time talk like a 7 year old or 93 year old confused/infirm person and see if they try to get info out of you, like names and account numbers, etc.

[hal]

There used to be a rather uncommon scam that involved the victim pressing digits ended up buying services through the phone service (their landline bill would see some enormous, obscure charge and getting the telco to drop it was impossible since it was a third party charge). With the death of landlines, I can't imagine this still happens often, but I'm sure it's still out there.

[GuyGene]

The spam IRS callers are at it too. Got a recorded call today saying IRS was suing me.