Just go to your telephone company web site and BLOCK the offending number, so it will not be able to come thru. If you do not know how, call their customer support!
But that's nothing permanent, because those Caller ID spoofers use a number for one day or so, then start to use some other number. The numbers they use are abandoned numbers, not yet reassigned by the telephone companies.
From Wikipedia:
Caller ID spoofing is the practice of causing the telephone network to display a number on the recipient's Caller ID display which is not that of the actual originating station. The term is commonly used to describe situations in which the motivation is considered malicious by the speaker or writer. Just as e-mail spoofing can make it appear that a message came from any e-mail address the sender chooses, Caller ID spoofing can make a call appear to have come from any phone number the caller wishes. Because of the high trust people tend to have in the Caller ID system, spoofing can call the system's value into question.
It is amazing that such a crooked practice is allowed to go on!
Where are the feds when I need them????? I wrote to my US Rep...no response!
Bottom line: IGNORE IT and never give the other side ANY information. PERIOD!
Just got a call from this number. Caller ID was Jane Selleck. Voice on other end was clearly Indian. I figured it was a scam or bill collector. So- I said I wasn't here, could I take a message? Nope--couldn't divulge the reason for calling. Said he would call back later.
Just go to your telephone company web site and BLOCK the offending number, so it will not be able to come thru. If you do not know how, call their customer support!
But that's nothing permanent, because those Caller ID spoofers use a number for one day or so, then start to use some other number. The numbers they use are abandoned numbers, not yet reassigned by the telephone companies.
From Wikipedia:
Caller ID spoofing is the practice of causing the telephone network to display a number on the recipient's Caller ID display which is not that of the actual originating station. The term is commonly used to describe situations in which the motivation is considered malicious by the speaker or writer. Just as e-mail spoofing can make it appear that a message came from any e-mail address the sender chooses, Caller ID spoofing can make a call appear to have come from any phone number the caller wishes. Because of the high trust people tend to have in the Caller ID system, spoofing can call the system's value into question.
It is amazing that such a crooked practice is allowed to go on!
Where are the feds when I need them????? I wrote to my US Rep...no response!
Bottom line: IGNORE IT and never give the other side ANY information. PERIOD!
Welcome to the world of UNREGULATED internet access. Until there is some type of business registration to control these messages EVERYONE will have to constantly block or report. The sad thing is that with all the tech. in the world & the "do not call" lists we still have to take time out of our day to delete/ignore these calls. How bout a do not call/email list that ACTUALLY works. Then again those places may very welll be the source of the problem. The way I've taken the approach is to only give out my # to those companies that HAVE to have a way to contact me. And someone needs to KILL that spam bot programmer! Or atleast drag him/her out into the middle of the street and flogged. (google it)
The saddest thing I've ever heard was an elderly Houston woman getting ROBBED for 10's of thousands of $'s thinking she was helping her favorite grandson out of a bad situation. The story was that he was incarcerated @ the U.S./Canadian border for what boils down to a $400 fine. She was told to wire almost $10k to get him out. The monies were sent over seas and the grandson was NEVER out of the states. It went to S. America then to a Swiss back acccdc