Scammers are getting more and more nasty these days. There is a war over the phone.
I have been dealing with tech scammers harassment calls and WINNING the battle for a while now. The calls went from 800, 303, numbers that could be called back. I used VoIP recorded and each time the scammers. Then reported them to DELL, Microsoft, and FCC each time. Then the calls stopped for a few months. This felt like a victory over the scammers.
Then began their attack of daily spoofed phone number numbers that where the same area code sometimes close the same number has mine (the last 4 digits would be different). This scammer tactic is commonly known has the neighborhood scam. The idea is they are trying to get you to pick up the phone because you will mistakenly think its someone in your area calling. Luckily my phone number is from an old area I no longer live and I never expect a phone call form that area code unless its already in my contacts. So I always know when its a scammer. I never answered one of these scam calls once. They would sometimes leave message that said "urgent pick up now" or "urgent call back this 800 #" I reported what I could.
These daily calls become so annoying that I had to install an app that would block every number starting with the area code they called from. Finally. Peace. I felt like I won again. They still called but I would now never notice it. Thus it never being a problem. Now today I noticed something interesting.
A call from a random number +10000000000
No message. I could not believe it. Something felt really off about it. Then I thought about it and realized that they are trying to ping numbers in their data base to see who to call. But is that really it? Or is there something more?
I know I said RANDOM but nothing is really random when it comes to scammers.
So I looked it up on google. And learned some interesting things. For one a lot of people have received phone calls from this number. They generally report it has a scam or scammer.
But I noticed a lot of reports that this call from +10000000000 is some kind of trace?
"This number has called me many times over the past several years. I've even had to change my phone numbers as a result. Now this may be a scam or spoofed numbers but it's actually a call trace. Someone that doesn't want their number identified is tracing your phone number. This is either predatory surveys or any number of activities. Harassment in all of its forms (cyber, phone, physical) is illegal in the US and obviously those that use this number know that or they wouldn't have to hide their phone number.
These sorts of phone calls occur when I notice someone using my data or phone service and disconnect them or change passwords etc.
It is predatory, violent and highly illegal to the point that those involved can be tried for domestic terrorism.
Occasionally it's someone or a group from another country. Either way all of these numbers must be blocked. They sometimes will attempt to use you and your contact phone numbers.
The call I just received left some garbled message. Anyway...all of this is illegal."
https://www.unknownphone.com/search.php?num=10000000000
"It is probably from a marketing company who is hiding there real phone number and have configured their outbound number to be an undialable number.
If you have a Voice over IP phone system, you could be suffering what's called “Port Scanning”
This is where your Router is being scanned for vulnerabilities by another device and your hand set is reacting to this activity.
This is not a phone call in this instance, rather more it's a hacking attempt on your Internet service."
https://www.quora.com/I-got-a-phone-call-from-the-number-10000000000-Any-idea-who-may-it-be-from
So maybe there is something to this tracking phone thing or they are more or less pining phone numbers.
Lastly, there is a urban legend around the number
"1000000000 is a haunted number if answered you have to tell 15 people about it in a week or you will die don't answer it"
https://youtu.be/vr0YK740Obs?t=151
So,
How can you prevent phone calls from numbers that are all 0's?
What if scammers start flooding people with truly random numbers.
When will world governments do something about this? Why can the FBI, CIA, NSA, track you but not be able to stop scammers? How can I trace back these numbers to their call centers and report?
I have wrote the FCC maybe 50+ times about this kind of thing but they don't do anything to STOP it.
What you guys and gals think?