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On Saturday I took a call from a number I didn't recognise with the person saying I had called them and asking who I was. I said sorry, no you must be mistaken but they continued to claim I had called them, asking why and asking again who I am. Two minutes later they called back saying the same thing so I blocked them and thought no more about it, assuming it was kids messing about. Now I've just taken a call from a different number going along exactly the same lines. I've never had anything like this before and it seems very odd.
No it is not a scam, yet. If you tell them your name see what happens next. Doesn't need to be your real name
Might be that someone is spoofing your number and these people are the scammees not the scammers?
No it is not a scam, yet. If you tell them your name see what happens next. Doesn’t need to be your real name
Never try to be more clever than the folks on the other end of the line.
Most likely someone has used your number to front their scammy calls. Put your number into who calls me etc and see what comes up.
My golden rule is ‘if it feels scammy enough to post on a forum about it. It’s a scam’
This.
Put your number into who calls me etc and see what comes up.
I have just tried that and nothing comes up.
Never try to be more clever than the folks on the other end of the line.
We all deal with things differently.
If calls just keep coming in do you just block all the calls forever or maybe just probe a bit without giving any actual details. Giving a false name would progress it to the next step where you may then get a better idea of what is going on and how to deal with it.
Might be that someone is spoofing your number and these people are the scammees not the scammers?
This is what it will be, basically some scammer is cold calling and making it look like your number is calling, get ready to receive a few calls from the type of people who return missed calls, got a few most days for a couple of months then it stopped. Don't think you can do much about it.
Aside from anything else,
The days of "wrong number" are pretty dead. You had a missed call from a number you don't recognise, if you're silly enough to call it back then you wouldn't write it down to type it back in manually and possibly misdial.
I get the odd one asking for Mark or Veronica or some such, mistakes happen but they're vanishingly rare. On my work mobile I get calls asking "is that Tarquin?" but it's clearly a recycled number from a previous employee. And mate, I'm from Accrington, do I sound like a Tarquin?
Whatever the scam may or may not me, "you called me" is plainly bogus.
progress it to the next step where you may then get a better idea of what is going on and how to deal with it.
What might that next step look like?
Say someone has spoofed your number... then what? Spoofing phone numbers is nominally more difficult than spoofing email addresses, which is "not very." They won't use if for long before changing to another because, as above, people block crank callers.
Whether that's the case or whether it's the scammers calling directly I'm unaware of much you can actually do about it other than play phone number Whack-a-Mole until they get bored and go away. If anyone has any ideas then I'm genuinely all ears.
I don't answer & soft block any calls from numbers I don't recognise*..they can still leave a voicemail which they never do, I wonder why...?
Unless I'm expecting a call.. but then a lot of businesses these days, the name comes up anyway when it's ringing, and android does a pretty good job of saying 'suspected spam' or whatever it says.
A lot of scam calls present as uk mobile phone numbers these days, but they are spoofed/compromised numbers so you cant even tell by the format of the number calling.
Everyone, legitimate business included is well aware of the amount of phone spam, so will know to leave a voicemail if it's genuine.
Unknown number + no voicemail left = insta-blocked and forgotten about.
Whack-a-mole is right...not much to be done about it.
You can on Android, blacklist whole ranges of numbers with wildcards like: 0161 234 but that's potentially troublesome as a lot of 'legit' call centers lease out numbers to multiple companies, some might be genuine, some cold callers, scammers etc.
I've had that once as well. Over a period of about a week the same person called me several times saying I had called them. They weren't asking for anything. I'm guessing it was a mistake in some sort of system as it never happened again
kerley
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No it is not a scam, yet. If you tell them your name see what happens next. Doesn’t need to be your real name
Dont get into this 'play them along' crap. People advising you to do so are idiots.
Dont get into this ‘play them along’ crap. People advising you to do so are idiots.
Once of a time it was fair sport. Today you're dealing with highly organised criminal gangs.
Surely as part of Levelling Up you’ll have all have been supplied with new posh names?
Back at the old place in Accy, a family of scrotes moved in a couple of doors up. The parents - or at least, the mother and the bloke du jour - lived up to whatever stereotype you care to envisage. There were two feral kids, a little lad who was a right sodpot and a slightly older girl.
One day I heard the mum yelling for the girl, "Portia! Portia!" I thought, bloody hell, I wouldn't have expected that scabber to have taken her daughter's name from Shakespeare.
It was a few weeks before I realised, it's not, is it. It's ****ing Porsche. 🤦♂️