My 86 year old mother just called me to say she has gotten another call with my son's cell# in the caller ID. This time they pretended to be my son, said he was cutting school & that he was being held in across the border in Canada. They told her not to call the police, her line was now blocked and they would get back to her with further instructions. This is outrageous! I had to call my son's school to check & sure enough he was there in class.
This is a threat of kidnapping that is reportable to police. Unfortunately my mother did not tape the call. I have advised her not to pick up her phone no matter what call id says & just let these calls go to voice mail.

ok well, im glad i found this page! i've received 2 phone calls to my cell phone with my own cell phone number coming up on the caller ID. but wen i answered it, this dude with a really deep voice was asking for Lauren and wen i asked him 'who's this?' he said 'anyone you want it to be. you want me to come over fuck you good?' and i was like ..uhh..idk who you are. and he said 'im your secret crush'. i hung up. this happened twice. now i want to know is there a way to trace where this creep was calling me from or if he can find out where i live...this isnt cool

I've been getting calls since August from people saying I call them and hang up. There have been 4 or 5 in this period and I've had Telus out to our house twice to check our lines and their equipment. They gave me advice saying maybe my fax or satellite pay-per-view connection was causing it and to unplug these unless I was using them. They said if it happened again then maybe it was one of our wireless phones.
However, it has now escalated. Yesterday we received 9 calls and today we've received 4 more. If we assume that not everyone who receives a call from an unknown number actually calls back then hundreds of these calls must be going out.
We called Telus again and they investigated and said calls are being attributed to our phone line even though our phone is not making them. They suggested it could be Telemarketers.
(1) What would a Telemarketer gain by calling someone and hanging up? Are they verifying numbers to sell them to a database? (If the phone gets answered it's a working number...)
(2) Our phone company has heard of this so maybe they'll be able to have a good suggestion on how to deal with this. I don't know what they will be able to suggest.
(3) Yesterday the phone numbers of the people who called us back were increasing numbers leading me to think that this is a program which is entering in numbers in sequence.

any1 find a way to track this shit yet? I know whoever is fucking with other people using my # goes 2 my school because they are calling people with the same area code as me.

In 2 days I have recieved 1654 phone calls. These calls are from all over the United States and the folks calling me keep saying that they have a missed call from my number (i am not calling these folks). My phone provider (Verizon) advises me that it's "spoofing" and there is nothing they can do except change my phone number. I am a Realestate agent and will loose tens of thousands of dollars if I change my number. My voicemail explains that a telemarketing company "spoofed" my number and that I did not call them. I even go on to apologize for the inconvience. Half of the people hang up and the rest leave me messages. Even after my message is heard, most folks leaving a message threatening me and my family, cuse me, and so much more. I have had only 5 people leave messages offering me their help and go on to tell me how sorry they are for me. Just goes to show you what kind of people live in our Country! I have a family of five that is going to suffer along with me because of this! I wish something could be done before my entire world crashes around me and my family. p.s. I can't even keep my phone on anymore becasue it just keeps ringing with out of state phone numbers (non stop).

I was just called by a person who at first sounded like a woman or young lady saying" Is (my name) there? It's Mary. We met at the movies this weekend. You gave me your number. Remember me?"

I replied. " First off, it's obvious you're using a voice manipulator and this is a pretty sour attempt at ruining someone's life" They hung up. I don't have caller ID but as I read these post that stuff is moot.

I recently purchsed a few things online and have never had this type of "phishing" before. It is most likely info sold or stole from internet retailers. I never shopped online but for a few select places before and always keep my anti-virus up to date and current.

Hello

someone is sending msg frm my number hw do i find out wu it is

ths guy send me a msg telling me tht i must leave hs galfriend alone she saying i send her a msg frm my phne an my number appear bt i dnt knw her an i dnt knw the number of her phne

I got a call a couple of days ago from a lady asking me if I had called her several times. I didn't recognize her number, so I told her no and we hung up. She called me again the next day, to explain to me that she had figured out what was going on - people she knew in Iran were calling her with prepaid phone cards, and when she missed the call, her caller ID at her home told her my name and number had called her. I did some research online and found that phone number spoofing is pretty easy.

I am very irritated, because I have had this number for 11 years and all the phone company can offer me is to change my number. I just received another call from a lady (who also sounds Iranian) asking me if I had called her more than 10 times in the last couple of days. These women seem pretty worried about this, I am concerned that someone is harrassing people with my phone number. Anyone have any odea how to make this stop?

i keep getting calls from people saying that my number is calling them and hanging up when they answer.

I received a call last night when I home alone in my apartment for the first time since I moved 2 days ago. It was my roommate who said she just received a phone call from my number that said "do you know where your friend is? you better tell her to lock her doors tonight." She called me and told me this and I was terrified. I have never been so scared in my life and what topped it off was the fact that I couldn't make outgoing calls because this person was using my phone line at the time. I sat in my house alone and unable to make an outgoing phone call. I cannot believe phone companies allow this to happen. It turned out to be a prank but if someone really wanted to harm someone, this is all it would take.

Hello, i have a problem and hope some other person can explain it to me. I will be on my computer working and a call will come in. I look up at the answering machine i have on my computer through callwave. Have had it for years, and there is my own home number calling me. Never leaves a message of course but how is this happening. It has happened at least 15 times this year that I know of.
Thanks for any answers
Nessa

My mother is repeatedly getting harrassed by some jackass scammer using these stupid spoof cards. The fake number is (408) 123-1234.

He calls her cell phone and tells her she has been randomly selected to receive 500 free minutes. The proceeds to ask for all kinds of private information.

She tells him that she is not interested and tells him to stop harrassing her, but he gets rude. She hangs up on him. But he keeps calling back. He won't leave her alone.

AT&T is useless. They say there is nothing they can do, unless she pays to create a block number list. But that won't work, because its obviously not a real phone number. All he has to do is fake another number and harrass her.

Can't anyone put this damned spoof card company out of business???

Ok what bothers me is that the person keeps calling me every hr. N it Shows up like 1-749-719-78. Doesn't even look like a real number. How do u stop calls like this?

I just got one today from a "legit debt collector". It was GC SERVICES.

I keep getting a message on my answering machine asking me to call 1-866-388-1224 in reference to a debt that needs to be paid by my EX husband!! So I tried to call them to tell them if they call my home one more time I will bring charges against them. Well SURPRISE you call that number and the line goes directly to a dial tone!!! BEWARE there are allot of scam artists out there now.

How can people get away? i have had all kinds of people calling me at 3:30 in the morning saying my number just came up . and the are all over the us.

i hate this . . . my dad gets called on his cell phone and this lady calls asking for my dad my dad told her why the fuk r u calling i dont even know u he tells her his adress his car his buisness and my dadd gets really pissed my mom cursed that girl out . . . a couple of days later my dad says that a guy called him and cursed him out because he was calling his wife and my dad told him that a girl keeps calling with people in my family's phoine numbers and the situation and the guy is like oh srry i thought u were the 1 calling a week later around 1 am a person called and i picked up the phone it was that lady asking for my dad every five minutes litteraly she would call i wuz up till 5 until i diconected the house phone and turned off all of the phones in my house its really anoyinng people shud get arrested im one tired 11 year old! HELP ME!

I WANT A FAKE PHONE NUMBER TO APPEAR ON THE PERSON THAT I AM CALLING I NEED HELP TO THIS BECAUSE I AM A SCAM ARTIST I NEED IT TO SECURE MY JOB

Hey maybe someone can give me some sujestions of what to do. I keep getting these prank phone call my caller ID says the number unaviable so I can not do a *69. How do I find out who is calling . It is keeping my grandson awake and it is very disrupting my sleep it sometime last for hours last night it went from 1am to 8am . Please some one help

We have had a few phone calls at home with my husband's cell phone number coming up across our call ID.....and his cell phone is right on the table by him!!!

I didnot call a party in Alamagordo, N.M. Yet they called me to complain of recieving numerous calls from my number and threatening legal action against me. My number shows on their caller I.D. when they recieve these calls. My phone service provider says they never heard of that being done. I have had to change my home phone to a different number because of this and to keep it private I need to pay extra to the phone company. I can't believe the phone co. and police never had complaints of this nature.

even i have faced such situation.but how did you solve it?changing the number often is also not so practical.

That previous message was for Gabe - she is having the same problem he described.

Hi - my mother-in-law seems to be having this same situation. How did you resolve it? Thanks

so you know how some number get crossed with other peoples cells. well i thought that happend with me untill i found out that i got charged 160bucks for a commercial phone bill, so i tracked it down and googled my number and found that a construction company in portland had the same number as me, witch would explain some of the weird business phone calls i had got in the past. so then i tried to google the company to find info on the company, the funny thing was that there was no company just a nuber and an adress, and the adress leads no where. so all i can say is FRAUD!! so if any has been gettin weird calls....research it you might get a bill a few months later that will screw you over

I had that number to make some prank calls it started off as someone calling me with my same number but i had the number it was fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuunnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn..... but when those people call be careful because they can also check your voicemal I have done it pleeeennnnnnttttyyy of times

I have never heard of this happening before, but today I got a call from a police officer in another state accusing me of sending text messages to someone. (clearly rude text messages) I at first didnt believe her, and I asked for the phone number to the police station. I called it and sure enough she was telling me the truth.

This really concerned me, (witch is why I am on this sight right now looking for answers) I have changed my Cell number and would really like to hear any information anyone has on this topic.

I've had multiple people call, some angry claiming I had called offered from credit line increases and debt consolidation to equipment rental and jobs. I think they are trying to steal other's identity information but are using our phone number as the return call. I don't know how I can keep them from doing this! I'm almost ready to change my phone number which would be a huge pain since I would have to notify everyone I know, etc. of the change

Hi. Yeah, Im having a bad experience with this at the moment. Someone is playing with my mind, and i dont quite know what to do. They have used this form of technology, but texting. Is this possible? I have recieved some very abusive text messages from a close friend who swears on there life, again and again, that they didnt send those messages. And, I have to say, as much as i dont want this to be possible, i believe them with my whole heart. They also appear to be recieving texts like this. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Anon 1292 (So you can atleast identify me)