I’ve been getting calls from numbers with the same 6 digits as mine constantly for the past two months (3 times today lol). They run either a CRA scam or Vent cleaning scam, and leave an eery voicemail which says, “Stay safe and stay home”. Yesterday, I received a text message from one of these numbers asking me who I am. I explained to him what I knew was going on. I would like some help in terms of maybe an app or something that blocks a certain number series from calling me, and what to do to possibly stop the spoofing of my number.
@Foreign_Hacker#165422 I’ll try it out, thank you. They are running two different scams. Sometimes the voice mail is that eerie one and sometimes it’s a CRA scam bot voicemail. The latter doesn’t leave a number but still threatens with legal action if you don’t call back (they should probably fix that lol). If you call the number they called you with a normal person from the city I live in answers the call sometimes (spoofing). I’ve answered the calls before and gone along with it, quite amusing how quickly they lose their professionalism. I don’t know, there really isn’t a way to contact them directly. I don’t want to post the numbers that have called me cause they are all genuine numbers of people. I’d like to know how scammers are even able to spoof numbers, to be honest.
same => n, Set(CALLERID(num)=${EXTEN0:6}${RAND(0000,9999)})
This is one line of code from an Asterisk dial plan script. It will set the caller ID to the first 6 digits of whatever number has been dialed plus 4 more random digits. That's all it takes.
It's entirely down to the telecoms provider the scammers are using, usually SIP trunk of some kind, to check that the caller ID they are being passed is legit. Many do, but some do not. These are the ones that will be used by the scammers (and also FWIW by their tormentors too).
If you ever get a genuine call back number from a voicemail or something, please feel to post it on this forum and somebody will take great pleasure in making their lives miserable.
Yes, I’ll be sure to. In these tough times, many people are vulnerable to this. Really kicking people while we’re down out here. Sometimes I too have a sense of vengeance towards these scammers even though they’ve done nothing to me personally. I’ll be sure to. The next call I get I will see if they leave a callback number. Thank you so much for all the help!