Just a sampling from last week. Every single one of these is the same scam. I had another seven yesterday.
I never answer and they always leave the same prerecorded voicemail message (although that message seems to change every few days) about me owing taxes, which I absolutely don’t.
I also get most of them within an hour, which makes it even more annoying.
And yes, I’m on the do not call list.
Someone please make it stop!
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If you can, turn off unknown callers from being able to reach you.
I’ve done this and it’s been wonderful. The spams have actually decreased significantly since I don’t answer the phone for them at all anymore.
It’s under Settings > Phone (have to go into Apps in iOS 18) > Silence Unknown Callers
Anyone who is not in your contacts gets a ring but the ring doesn’t go to you so you don’t hear it and don’t answer. They can leave a voicemail but scammers never leave me voicemails.
Someone else showed me that earlier and I turned it on. So far, so good!
Yet Another Call Blocker has worked brilliantly for me, for years how. This stuff doesn’t even show up in my call log.
Any chance you have a frienemy that is doing shenanigans?
If so, it’s a long-term frienemy if they know my phone number.
Start reporting these numbers to the FBI as scam-related.
Once they realize any number that calls you gets burned, they’ll stop.
The can spoof any number. They usually go with something local (to you) to increase the odds of you picking up.
Calling back will get you Bob on the other side of town who has no idea what missed call you’re talking about.
Do you have a source on them being able to spoof any number? I find that hard to believe
I’ve heard of it in an old 60 minutes segment, but seems this commenter knows the technical details.
Veritasium had an episode on even more haunting exploits in the phone networks a couple of weeks back. Always prefer 2FA apps over SMS.
