There are a number of techniques scammers use to get people to pick up the phone, but the most popular method is known as “Neighborhood Spoofing,” which happens when a scammer disguises their phone number and displays it as a local number on a user’s caller ID. For example, a scammer may spoof their phone number to match the area code and 3-digit prefix of the person they are targeting and ultimately increase the likelihood of someone answering.
I love it when scammers use neighborhood spoofing. My phone has a New York area code because that’s where I lived when I got my first smartphone. I don’t know anybody there any longer because this was over a decade ago. So when I get these calls, I immediately know it’s a scam.
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Same here! Plus, we live in the smartphone age. If you’re not on my contact list, I’m not picking up your phone. Email or text me.
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I get these scam phones with the (607) area code twice a day. It’s so annoying.
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Isn’t it ironic that smartphones have made it much more difficult to contact people you don’t know?
God, I hate smartphones – they make everything worse and stupider….
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How so?
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What I hate are tablets. God, what a useless, ridiculous invention. Extremely overpriced, too. I have no idea why anyone would pay for one.
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So why waste money on caller ID, anyway? I have a $12/month landline phone, and never answer it unless I hear a voice speaking into the voicemail that I want to talk to.
Spam e-mails are a much bigger nuisance than calls, even with an adequate software spasm filter that flags most of them.
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