Phishing phone calls with local area code??

[Pilatus]

We are getting “phishing/scam phone calls on our land line that appear to be in our local area code area BUT when I look up missed calls on our landline they don’t appear. How are these fraudsters managing to do this.
I am sure other members have the same problem.

 

[Nearly]

You can set up internet numbers to give a fake phone number id on the display.

 

[rollestonpark]

Yes the call ID you see on you mobile and landline (if yours is capable) can be spoofed easily.
It is not authenticated in anyway. Thus take the caller's ID number with a pinch of salt.

just because your mobile phone says it's your bank calling and matches the number you have in your phone, it does not mean for certain that it IS your bank, it could be anyone.

Personally I think the phone system is rubbish and call ID should only be sent when it can be authenticated properly.

 

[Lincs Lass]

Used to get them everyday , caller display was very handy .
Got rid of landline , don't get them on mobile or if one does get through , its automatically shows it as a scam.

 

[GEMS]

What's a landline ??

 

[melted welly]

If in the right mood you can have a bit of fun when Mahmoud calls up from “Scarborough”, asking him about the weather there and reminiscing about when the youngest child ingested so much water at the water park place that the car seat was 2” deep in urine by the time the drive home was complete. Hello…..hello…. think he’s hung up

 

[J B]

If in the right mood you can have a bit of fun when Mahmoud calls up from “Scarborough”, asking him about the weather there and reminiscing about when the youngest child ingested so much water at the water park place that the car seat was 2” deep in urine by the time the drive home was complete. Hello…..hello…. think he’s hung up

I kept one on for 15 minutes yesterday - in the end he threatened to come round to my house!!!

 

[serf]

Got rid of landline ,

Just given notice on ours , with all the BS calls and faffing to do the new VoIP thing we thought wtf !
The shysters will have nowhere to go soon to scam ....

 

[Lincs Lass]

Just given notice on ours , with all the BS calls and faffing to do the new VoIP thing we thought wtf !
The shysters will have nowhere to go soon to scam ....

If Ide renewed for another 24months , including broad band , EE wanted nearly £60 pm
Now it's gone , Im saving £40

 

[PSQ]

What's a landline ??

AKA 'the mum line'. It's what older people use to call their kids.

Before we finally got rid of it, we knew if it rang that it would either be a scam, my mum or the mother in law.

 

[Dry Rot]

I have Truecall (NOT Truecaller) on my landline which can be programmed to block all suspect calls. They now have Truecall for mobiles. I've got one but haven't set it up as I realise, because I'm deaf, I never hear or answer the phone anyway. Uncomplicated my life no end. It's then only realise what a lot of irrelevant nonsense most people talk. I had a long conversation with a man at the supermarket the other day by nodding and interjecting the odd ambiguous comment. When the man's wife turned up she confirmed her husband had no idea I was deaf! (And very useful it is at times too. I hope you all enjoy your Christmas music!).

 

[matthew]

What's a landline ??

Something you use to communicate if you have no mobile signal.

 

[Lincs Lass]

Got a neighbor that said , I'm not calling you on the mobile , I've got PAYG and it will cost alot and im not wasting my allowance.
Then I thought , you used to call me on the landline using your mobile

 

[serf]

If Ide renewed for another 24months , including broad band , EE wanted nearly £60 pm
Now it's gone , Im saving £40

xactly , i just finished a contract with Bæsturds ( BT) and binned the lot with em (£60 month fone & BB) in a contract that I wasn't even meant to be in and hours of grief on the fone to India trying to sort it ,
gave up in end and waited the contract out and feked it all off other day and gone onto £16 month fibre , just fitting it today .

 

[serf]

Got a neighbor that said , I'm not calling you on the mobile , I've got PAYG and it will cost alot and im not wasting my allowance.
Then I thought , you used to call me on the landline using your mobile

EE fone is up now too and going SIM only monthly. £20 less

 

[Y Fan Wen]

I kept one on for 15 minutes yesterday - in the end he threatened to come round to my house!!!

Before the little one joined me on the land he used to spend the working day in front of a screen playing with lines of code.
He told me last month he got one of these guys that want to get control of your machine. So while he was being talked through beginners steps in handing over control, he went in by the back door and set up a hd wipe on the other machine and when he pressed execute he got a torrent of baad language. He told me that if his supervisor had taken the call, she would have trashed their entire lan.

 

[GarMan]

On your mobile, get 'TrueCaller' or similar apps that inform you what a number could be during an incoming call helping you prepare in case its a spam or unwanted telemarketer.

 

[Lincs Lass]

EE fone is up now too and going SIM only monthly. £20 less

I've gone Sim only last week , EE tripled my allowance and halved the costs , happy days .

 

[serf]

I've gone Sim only last week , EE tripled my allowance and halved the costs , happy days .

Didn't offer me anything like that so I've got PAC code off them to transfer !

 

[serf]

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