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Scammers using spoofed phone numbers
How is it that our telephone service providers/administrators have not taken steps to prevent this happening?
I’m sure you have all received many scam phone calls - some come from the usual “call centres” with live operators and some are recorded messages that you can’t abuse.
I’ve had one a day for the past week - each from a slightly different mobile phone number. A female voice says she is Daniel from PayPal and is calling about a $499 Bitcoin transaction on my account.
It’s the same voice and the same message every time. All that changes is the source number - always a mobile number.
The method is hardly new. I’ve had dozens and dozens like it extending over years. I’ve reported them as spam when I can but they just keep coming.
Why can’t our network stop spoofing on this scale?
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