Got a call on way to work this morning. This was an automated call saying they were from irs and got lawsuit against me- i dont understand why the law doesnt stop this, they know the area of thiese callers and why do they let these people keep gettign away with this mess-
Its not hard to spoof a number - to make Caller ID show a fake number - if you know what you are doing. The law does not know where the callers are. Many of them are outside the US, in 3rd-world countries where scamming dumb Americans is not a crime. There are lots of people running this scam, all independent of all the others. US law enforcement cannot stop the calls.
If you get lots of calls from the same phone number a call blocker will help. Your smart phone may have one pre-installed or you can download one for free. For a simple cell phone put the number in your contacts list and give them the ring tone "no ring" or "silence", That won't stop the calls but it will make them easier to ignore.