Scammer just called me, here is the number!

General Discussion
1

I’m very familiar with these types of calls, but, I warned them. If I had the money for the tech, I’d do the hack myself.

Here is the number, have fun!

(512)-634-**XXXX**

2

@D3D_K3L#131962 I’m afraid that whoever originally placed the outbound phone call to you, altered their caller ID before making the call. The phone number you posted above leads the Apple retail store of Barton Creek, Austin TX. If you call it, there is even a message from Apple themselves informing people who call back that number, that someone is using it as their caller ID.

Thanks for posting this though, I have just removed the last 4 digits of the phone number so people don't harass a real Apple store.

3

@Norm_Harrison#131964 As a general guideline if the scammer robocall says “PRESS ONE” then most likely the number is spoofed

4

@drwat#131975 Aha, I see, didn’t know that. Very interesting, I will keep that in mind for the future.

Thank you

5

@Norm_Harrison#131964 reminds me of when a scammer spoofed the number of a family restraunt they had to change the ivr message they were being called by so many people

6

@grabscammersip#131988 Used to be difficult for them to do, but now it’s trivial. Unless a caller specifically gives a phone number, I consider the caller ID bogus. And I always try to use numbers of known scammers myself (and home numbers if I know them!), so if they do decide to pay revenge on it, it just helps the cause :slight_smile:

7

@Otis#131997 Absolutely correct, Otis. I may have mentioned in the past that I have 2 landlines at home, due to a home based business going back 20+ years. I also belong to the targeted demographic, senior citizen who owns a timeshare, well-to-do (before market meltdown, haha), and other criteria they ask for when they buy phone lists. So I get more than my fair share of robocalls on those 2 lines.

Except for one voicemail where they actually left a call back number, all incoming scam calls have spoofed numbers. Either "not in service" numbers, or some poor innocent's line that gets hammered. So, most of the time I don't even bother calling to verify, or most of all, I refrain from posting the spoofed number.