First . Change ur num maybe with verizon . Verizon keeps recors for every thing u do on ur phone . U can acses all these records online . 2ndif u knw the person who is using this spoof contact lawyer who takes internet and electronic devise harassment cases nd stuff like that than on the phoneperson that is using the spoof its all the trases off everything they have ever done . Nd always be smart dont let people scare u or make u feel threaten. Speacily over the phne always report to the police eve1ythin6 :)

So my grandpa, who is 79 and the nicest men in the world, just came in and asked me why these women keep calling him mad and upset. So I ask him what he means and as he's telling me this women just called him yelling at him because someone from his number just yelled at her and also this isn’t the 1st woman that had called him. My grandpa was really upset so I called the woman to see what was going on. While on the phone I explain that my grandpa hadn't called her, after looking at the cell phone records, and that he didn’t understand why he was being yelled at.
The lady tells me that someone from his number called her over 20 times in the last 4 days and she kept pressing 2 to be taken off their list. So finally she pressed 1 to talk to someone who then yelled and threatened her. Upset she called the number back and got my grandpa so she thought he knew who had yelled at her.
I am reporting this to my states attorney general because this is a scam. FYI if you get one of these phone calls and it’s a company get the name of the company and where they are working out of then report them to the fraud department.

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I am now in the process of getting these spoofing calls for over a year and continuing. (these are all hang up calls). By a stroke of luck I found out the person who is calling me. A dumb mistake by the caller. Lucky for me. However, I now have the phone number of this person and want to call him and use a prank call on him but need some kind of a script to use. Does anyone know where I can get such a script or does someone on this site have a good one.

I need to know how to find out exactly where a spoofed text number came from this is urgent. my husband has a customer thru his business who is using printed texts from him saying he was sexually harrassing her. the problem is he really never did it. she is trying to get the company to give her, her stuff for free. he is going to lose his job if we dont get this figured out, and tmobile does not save archived texts or anything. please help. family of five and one on the way about to be homeless.

I got call from a friend today. He stated that my number was used in a phone prank against him. I had no idea about it. How can I find out who used my number. I feel violated. It is not my nature to prank anyone no less to stoop to level of a phone prank.

My mother is the most evil minded woman you would ever want to meet, she's done a lot of bad things, but has managed to live until 83 years old. She's stolen wedding gifts and checks from my sister's wedding, and she stole from a mall; once putting her old shoes in a new box, luckily my sister paid for them, so mom also stole from her job, an art gallery and did some small time for it at a jail where my brother once worked! So she has been bad mouthing me to family and friends who I need in my life more than ever. She is jealous of me. She hates me, seriously, her las words before she passes will be "I HATE MY DAUGHTER!" I swear. So I tele-spoofed her dialing the local police department in her town, and putting it as the CALLER ID, and she must have called it back and been freaking. I only did it 2 times then stopped. It's too sad. I need my family and friends, but she took them away, so now I am satisfied with calling any number, usually a business and saying, "Hello, I'm calling about the Receptionist/Front office position online????" I stress "RECEPTIONIST/FRONT OFFICE. Usually the person is nervous and keeps coming back and asking you stuff. It's a laugh. But you can smell them sweating and freaking, and it hurts no body! LATER for ya!

My lying cheating physically mentally emotionally sexually abusive soon 2b exhusband has used someth text/number changer 'spoofcard' or something 2send me voicemails of him having sexual relations with other women..when I attempt 2get number sent from..it is my cel number. Ive opened txts from my sons & coworkers about 4times that was a message he sent me b4 he divorce me~ ~now I get the annoying txt that come from when you enter your info for jobs on websites that cost $9.99per txt~when I reply stop it wont send bcuz it is my ex harassing me. The police think im on drugs, making things up trying to get him in trouble or im over reacting to his games. Allowing him to get away with hois ABUSIVE BEHAVIOR ONE MORE TIME!! I stood up 2him threw him out so I would not be his victim anymore!!! So I thought.. This should b enuf evidence for the police to believe me. Yes I over analyze & react~my husband ran me over after slapping me pushing me down for telling him its ok for him to cry..that I love him..STUPID STUPID STUPID ME..NOW LOOK WUT IM DEALING WITH~THANKYOU FOR THIS SITE ~FOR AWHILE I WAS STARTING TO BELIEVE WHAT THE POLICE WERE THINKING CRAZEE B'CH

This has happened to my home phone number. My brother has come to live with me and my family. His on and off again girlfriend didn't like the fact he was coming to live with me. The witch kept calling the house and my brother didn't want to talk to her or see her. So during the day she called the house phone with my name on it with our home phone# on the caller id and it was her. She was trying to get to my brother anyway she could. We had another phone call like that less than 30 minutes after the 1st one. I would think that was harrassment. Now she has sent mail to my house using her first name and my brothers last name on the return address. I am at my wits end with her. We are already going to small claims court because when my brother moved out of the apt she came to help (not invited) and took all of his expensive things to her house to store. I asked her about the items and was her storage climate controlled, of which, it wasn't. I told her to move everything she had of his to the moving van...It didn't happen. Now she is holding the items hostage. A pre-set meeting was made to pick the things up and she was hid in another apt and not there (got proof of that). Now she is making demands on giving him his stuff back. Asking him to come get the items when he doesn't have a drivers license, no insurance, no car tag. She won't give the items to anyone but him and I have a power of attorney. Geez this woman is looney tunes.

What are the web sites for text spoofing? Im a victim of it and the petpetrader thinks im an idiot. I want to prove that I know about the scheme, but I need back up

This guy told my friend he got a nasty text from me. Since I know for sure I didnt send the text, is it poissible he text himself, but made it look like I did it by inputing my #? Is that spoofing, too?

For the past 3 months I've been getting random phone calls from different numbers in the 313 area code (Michigan). I live in Minnesota, and don't know anyone nor have ever been to Michigan. I don't have a smart phone, just a normal cell phone. The few times that I have picked, which I'm too nervous to now, it has been different people saying that they've just received a missed call from my number. When I say their just mistaken, they usually hang up. Nobody is trying to get info from me. Most times I haven't even touched my phone for the past few hours. I'm wondering if lines had been crossed with someone else's, or is there some way that they are getting my info. Somebody please tell me what's going on, and is there any reason to worry about this?

I have been called by just the number 1 twice. I thought that the number 1 is permanently assigned as voice mail. So how did I get a call from it? The first time I did not pick it up because I normally don't pick up calls that I don't know but it rose my curiosity that the number only showed up as 1. So the second time it called I picked up and there was someone flipping out. I did not even know what was going on. Is it a prank call? If it is a prank call what site would they use? I am confused because I never been called by the just the number 1 or heard of anyone being called by it. I even tried to call it back but didn't work because it was not a full number.

This link may answer a few questions, http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s111-30
Or Google - " S. 30: Truth in Caller ID Act of 2009" .
It's been in the works for some time. Make sure to read the "Full Text" link.

Yes, Lisa from Carnesville Georiga sent text messages from a website using my cell number without my permission. This is a form of identity theft. She also uses several cell phones from Verizon and or Tracfone to send messages for harassment purpose. She has a Sprint phone where she is a user on that account and uses it for harassment purpose. The "ACCOUNT OWNER" is solely responsible for any and all phones attached to their account.

There is a way to combat this. We have the technology right now to find out who called with a private, spoofed or unknown phone number. It's 2011 and the technology is here.
http://traceprivatecalls.com/can-you-trace-a-phone-number-that-comes-up-private-on-caller-id

Is it possible that someone can steal your number so they can call which you have to pay for it?

Is it possible that someone can steal your number so they can call which you have to pay for it?

If you go to www.spoofcard.com this website allows you to make calls to any destination utilizing another persons telephone number.

In the last two weeks I have had several calls from different people in Canada asking if my land line number called their cell number. I told them no
each time but I still keep getting these calls from Alberta, Quebec and Calvary. My phone company assured me their records do not show any calls
from our land line number being made to these areas and we are not being charged. One woman told me her caller ID showed my number was coming from Vancouver. I really don't like that someone is using my number to harass others. Can anyone tell me what's going on? Thank you!

whatever...

all you against spoof.com can kiss it.
I happen to love their service...it's a dream come true.
Not everyone who uses it does it to harrass. Businesses use it to keep company info private.

It is seriously one of the best inventions in telecommunications. Seriously.

Take a cue from Kim Kardashian
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqJ2Fl3qB5A&feature=player_embedded

So today my boyfriend get in the shower and I'm browsing internet on the phone just facebooking and whatnot. One of his cousins called the phone but I didn't answer because I knew he'd call him back once he got out of the shower, so I just silenced it because I didn't want to wake our baby. A few minutes later a different cousin calls, so I do the same thing. I got back to browsing the net when the same cousin who just called, calls again. Frustrated that I'm being interupted once again, aloud say "uggh!" And silenced the call again. My boyfirend at this time is getting out of the shower and asked who it was and I told him.

Moments later he calls his cousin who called twice. I couldn't hear what was being said but he was confused. while he's talking, he gets another call on the other line, from a number VERY similar to his cousins. Some random girl on that line says that some girl from OUR number repeatedly calling her asking for "key killa", which happens to be my boyfriends cousin, who I remind you is still one the other line. He assures her no one called her and hangs up on her. He talks back to his cousin and his cousin is saying that a girl keeps calling asking for him and hanging up. Meanwhile the girl who just called keeps calling but my boyfriend ignores it.

When my boyfriend gets off the phone he asks if I tryed to call his cousin and I told him I hadn't. He starts getting mad at me and calling me out of my name thinking I was trying to be slick and secretly call his cousin when I had not. As I said , I was one facebook the whole time. But he didn't believe me because the cousin and girl said it was from OUR phone number. We get in to a big argument because I had to defend my side of the story. I know that nowdays people can use any number to call so I told him somebody else is messing with them while using our number. He still doesnot believe me and goes to sleep. I finally get an idea and go onto the phone service website and look up our call history (which can't be chenged or edited in any way) and finally found the proof that I needed to prove to him I didn't make any outgoing calls but at this point he so deep in his sleep he won't wake up.

I absolutely HATE that they even make phone apps like this because it definitely could have ruinour whole relationship!

My house got broken into, so like most people I called 911, immediately after hanging up 911 I got a call from a unknown caller, when I answered it was a man's scary voice with heavy breathing. A few days later I was calling my mother and the same voice and type a call came up on my phone. I looked at the phone to see if I was still connected to my mothers phone while the voice was on and my phone read that time was running and I was on the phone with my mother. The caller hung up and my mother called me back. When my mother answered I asked her if she just heard me on the phone and she said no, I just saw you called and I was calling you back. Then I received a call that appeared on my phone as a clients number but when I answered it was the same scarey man voice. After he hung up my client that the number belongs to called me, I asked her if she had just called and she said no. Then I was on the phone with my boyfriend and his call got dropped and he called me back but when I answered it was the same scarey man voice. Again he called me back and I asked him if he just had called and he said no I was trying but I couldn't get through. Is this what is called spoof calls??? If not what is this and how is it done? Could this be strictly random?

I took a little umbrage at the author's belief that there's no legitimate need for number spoofing. Here's one: I made a purchase from an individual in another state, someone I know, and they didn't fulfill the order for an unknown reason. Whenever I email or call, there's no answer and no reply to any type of message. I'm the most likely caller from my area code, so I don't think I'd have much more success using another line. That leaves a fake number from his area code as the only way I can get through to him directly. There's no guarantee I'll get my order, but getting through to him is my only step other than doing nothing.

So am I nefarious now?

So i have been getting these calls from a 505 area code number a lot lately and i cant call them back. The other night i got a voice mail and its this helpless girl saying,"hello? Hello? They gave me your number, so if you are listening to this message, will you please save me? If you answer." i am rally freaked out by this and i dont know if this is a prank or what.

message back asap please!

Listen to this one the other night my phone was turned off well while my GF and i were on the couch she got a phone call from me.She answered it and all that was there was static.Now tell me how can my phone call someone when it was turned off.

It is actually very simple to report someone who is spoofing calls, or at least the company/carrier allowing such spoofed calls to happen. Spoofed calls are nothing more than a bridged call from the real callers phone to your phone using the spoofing service or system. Every spoof service has billing numbers attached to their switch and even though a Caller ID (CID) can be spoofed, there is another call service used called Automatic number identification (ANI) which has the billing telephone number of the calling party recorded for that call. So this means that should you want to start an investigation through your local carrier, you can use a service called CALL TRACE to trap the information for a harassing call. This may be a pay service and needs to be set up prior to the call but it will provide the phone company and law enforcement information to investigate the call transaction. The spoof service will then be responsible for providing the real calling party phone number, and possibly even billing information, for who made the bridged call. It may take a little leg work but if you take action you are no longer a victim.

Resources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Number_Identification
http://www.privacyrights.org/fs/fs3-hrs2.htm

i like it

Very scary? U don't know what is scary. My son was drove to Mexico to visit some of his wife's family. Due to the situation out there, we were all very tense. His cell lost signal when he crossed th border but suddenly I got a text from his cell saying he was being held by thugs until I paid randsom and not to try calling the police because they were police, they would get back to me with what else to do. so I tried texting back but no answer. A while later I got a phone call from my son saying they had arrived OK. I as asked him about the situation but he had no idea what I was talking about, he had his cell with him. Someone knew he was going and tried to extort money from me. Someone close because for some reason they never tried to call back with instructions. Called the cops but they could not do anything. The day he got back he showed me he had just received the text I had sent him days ago so I know his cell was not working when the text was sent to my phone. Now that is scary.

I met this 41 yr old guy at a bar almost 2 weeks ago and he tried kissing me that night. I pushed him away and he didn't seem too happy about it. Well, I kept going back there to hang out with my friends and he would buy me my drinks and he would pay for my ride home. He didn't know my address though, I'd tell the cab driver once I was already in the car. Anyway, he keeps asking me out to dinner and I keep saying no. He asked me to the Knick's game and I said no. I told him I'm not interested in a relationship. I'm only 24. He's 41. He said ok but he still hasn't let up. He texts me a lot asking me to go there alone which I will NOT do. He wanted me to help him make a facebook meanwhile I found out he already had one. I looked up his name on www.criminalsearches.com and he was arrested on 4 counts of theft/robbery and one for Violence. I don't know the full details but I'm looking into it with a cop friend of mine. He sent me nasty pics of himself. Now I'm getting out of State phone calls and I don't know anyone from these places. If the father of my kids pick up the phone they don't say anything, they just hang up. I haven't picked up yet. Last night they left a message on the machine jerking off. I know it's him but I can't trace the number back. I think he's using one of those sites listed above. I don't know what to do. I can't go to the police because he hasn't touched me. you know how that works. What do I do??

So yesterday I got a text from some random number saying Hi and that we go way back and if I guess who it is correctly then I get 50 bucks on monday and I knew they wouldn't give me 50 bucks so I told them I didn't care about the money just to tell me who it is. And then said they'd give the money to my friend instead. Then they asked me to go to the mall to meet up with him because he hasn't seen me in a long time. I didn't g of course. So then they randomly ask me if I have a butt plug on? And then soon after the conversation ended. Now today my OWN cell phone number calls me.. I pick up because I'm confused. ( I thought it'd be tmobile telling me my bull was due.) So I pick up the phone and they ask me "What are you doing?" It it robotic high voice. But you could tell that a normal voice was being edited by a computer. So I IMMEDIATELY hang up and now I'm freaking out. Somebdy please help me.

When I call my landline phone from my cell, the number that appears on the caller id is that of a calling card service. No one calls me from that number, and I have never used that service. Both my cell service provider and the landline company are at a loss for answers. I really don't know why this happens, or how. Any thoughts?

last night i got pranked with a phone number and when i called number back it was the police number how do they do that. pranking me and using a different number.

Thanks, this was very useful. My girlfriend just got a prank phone call with her own phone number on caller ID.

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Can I block spoofing? I have a number that keeps calling. She tells me my fiance is cheating on me, and she is pregnant with his kid. She calls at 4 am and it gets annoying. This started a fight between us, and I want to find out who is doing this before I start pointing fingers at my immature exhusband, please help...

Can I block spoofing? I have a number that keeps calling. She tells me my fiance is cheating on me, and she is pregnant with his kid. She calls at 4 am and it gets annoying. This started a fight between us, and I want to find out who is doing this before I start pointing fingers at my immature exhusband, please help...

I was wondering. Can I give u a number to use when u fake call some1. So every1 calls that number back? That guy that has that number keeps trying to molest my girlfriend. He's always trying to talk to her and he stalks her. I don't want him to know I had any part in this tho. Iv been trying to give his number to a bunch of telemarketers but they'd rather just have the email. So can u please harass his fone for me? His number is 7152167326 and his name is craig

pls call me

I recieved 15 missed calls the other day from people I do not know. When I called them back they said they were calling be back to see who I was. I even had a few messages saying they recieved a call from my # and someone was asking for bank info. One message even threatened to call the police on me. I am not making these calls. How can I stop this and how in the world can someone use my # to try to scam people? I called my phone server and they never heard of anything like this and suggested I change my #. I really hate to do that but if I need to I will. Does anyone have any suggestions or has this happened to anyone else? I made a police report on all this to help cover myself. Really scary.
Gee I wonder if all the calls they are making is taking away my minutes. Guess I need to check on that. Thanks for any advise you can share

I've had 15 calls now from an "unknown" number. It sounded like a telemarketer at first, so when I answered, I said "take me off your list and do not call again". Well, calls kept coming, and I ignored them. Still calls came. So I answered this last one, saying that I've already asked them to stop calling and if they call again I will sue. Well, I hear the voice of a middle eastern sounding man telling me that he will call me another 100 times. He responded that if I do not sue him in 2 days then he will sue me.. I asked for a supervisor, he said he was the supervisor. I asked what he wanted, he said, in a very eerily calm manner, and I quote " I want for you to die. I will call you everyday until you are dead. What language do you speak? English?? Well I speak to you in your language then. You dirty mother f$%*&! American. You are all a55holes. I will kill you." Mind you, he asked for me by name.
I called AT&T, they said it either came from a private company or a pay phone and that they couldn't release the number unless it was subpoenaed by a judge. When I looked up my incoming calls online, the number for the call at that time was my own number. ATT said that they have to put a number in when there is an unknown call. They did recommend that I call my local police which I did. But holy crap this whole thing is creepy.

I keep getting weird and random messages from a number that starts with 9 and has around 5 other numbers in it.
the first one said that im connected with something that forwards things to my phone. i dont recognize it or the user names that texxt me.
its Magdeline, and sunny, (which are only part of the names because i forget the rest) i delete the messages and do not respond.
they usually say things like "HI!" "live and let live" "im taking a shower" "talk to you later ok?!" "want someone real"
it scares the crap out of me when i get messages wen im still sleeping. im still young around teen age years. how do i get it to stop?
any suggestions?

My husband is spoofing calls right and left to conceal an affair. If you are receiving texts and calls from your own number or a lot of calls are on your bill that you didnt make. (possibly from your family and friends phone numbers= remember a spoofer can use any number only a person close to you would have your friends/ family phone numbers)..look at your spouse or partner. This has literally almost driven me crazy trying to figure this outfor almost 5 years . I am unable to stop it, prosecute (the spoofing/spoofer) or get my cellular company to listen to me.
Here is the deal ANYONE who has an iphone or DROID phone can download applications and do this to you FREE OF CHARGE. Also you can buy cards online to spoof so many calls "google it" for example on tmobile go to your market and searh spoofing applications or conseal calls and you will see the applications and tells you how to call or text anyone from any number you choose even their number. You must enter an email address and your correct telephone number to do this via phone applications. Being that you must enter that information I believe the REAL person doing this could be caught..the problem is how do you know what "spoofing service" they are using and how do you contact the spoofing service??? I have tried unsusessfully.
I am on a mission and I will not stop until I figure out how to get my "ex husband" and his numerous lovers prosecuted for literally almost driving me insane. Other than law enforcement...no one should have access to this "spoofing" and cellular companies are fully aware of this issue but are unable to stop it or correct it therefore they pretend to not know what you re talking about or tell you that it is impossible, UNTRUE.
My husband had no formal education and we are average middle class people. My point is ANYONE CAN DO THIS. i have literally wasted hours and hours of time and now that I figured it out,NO ONE can help me get it stopped. I have changed my numbers but we have children so he has to have a phone number to reach the kids, THE SPOOFING STOPS UNTIL HE GETS THE NEW NUMBER THAT I AM REQUIRED BY LAW TO PROVIDE TO HIM. THERE FORE I CANT STOP HIM.
THE ONLY WAY TO STOP IT, AND FIGURE OUT WHO IT IS, CAN BE DONE ONLY ONE WAY UNLESS YOUR PHONE NUMBER WAS RANDOMLY CHOSEN BY A SPOOFER! CHANGE YOUR NUMBER AND DO NOT ALLOW ANYONE TO HAVE THE new NUMBER THAT YOU SUSPECT MAY BE DOING THIS TO YOU....NONE OF The person you suspects FRIENDS FAMILY allow no one to have the number. IF THE SPOOFING STOPS....THEN ALLOW THE PERSON YOU SUSPECT TO HAVE YOUR NUMBER AND IF IT STARTS UP AGAIN YOU'LL KNOW WHO AND MAY HAVE TO CHANGE YOUR NUMBER AGAIN BUT IT IS A SMALL PRICE TO PAY FOR SANITY.
THE PROBLEM IS YOU HAVE NO RECOURSE, YOU CANT PROVE OR PROSECUTE THAT PERSON...IMAGINE HOW DUMB YOU WOULD SOUND TRYING TO EXPLAIN THIS TO LAW ENFORCEMENT??? I know I tried, i think they thought i was insane. IF ANYONE KNOWS HOW TO HAVE THIS PERSON SPOOFING PROSECUTED AND DISCOVERED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT PLEASE PLEASE TELL ME. I know that it is illegal in certain states. I have written to FCC FTC governer...no luck but I WONT STOP. HELP ME

me and my buddy were getting unknown call at the same time. when we picked it up it connected each other at the same time. then we were getting calls from other people from my phone book. and they all were getting uknown calls the same time we did. they kept doing it for atleast 30mins stright.

A couple of days ago I got a call on my cell phone from a man who said he was getting text messages from my number. He called again yesterday, said his wife is getting scared and he wants it stopped. I did not send the messages. I really don't text, just send pictures sometimes to family and to my own email. I have checked my call records for the past month and his number is not there. Is someone using my number to send these text messages? How is this happening and what can I do about it?

Yeah, I'm not really fond of spoofing myself. I looked at my phone bill Friday and my blood pressure went up and yes I almost cried... I'm getting unknown charges on my phone bill. They were long distance charges and it said that I called 411 12 times. This keeps happening to me. What I'm suspicious about is how they got there because I'm not calling anyone. I get phone calls from unknown people sometimes and I pick up the phone automatically dials out or I get the operator automatically. I don't know what's going on.

You are suffering from a rash of private investigators, check your local licensed professional investigators website and see who in your family or friends have a private investigator license, then you will know where it is coming from, it has happened to me multiple times. Don't worry they are trying to make you look insane, you can bet there is money involved somewhere, you need a professional to help you out.

i hear that my dauters keep getting scared bye a phone call from there own number so who is this person scaring my dauters cause this is really annoying

Call came in this morning, and when I answered there was no one there at first (figured it was a scammer, but the caller ID read "private caller" and I answered because I know a few people whose calls come in like this). There was a click and then a woman came on the line. She didn't ask for one of the adults in the house, but demanded to know who called her number earlier this morning. I told her that was not possible, I was the only one home and I didn't make any calls. She said someone from "this number" called and hung up when her husband answered. I reitterated what I said. She asked who we were, and (silly me) I gave her our last name (not my first name, though). As I continued speaking, asking what number she was called from, she hung up.

After looking around on the internet I believe I just fell for a number verification scam. Probably some business makes automated calls to see if someone answers, thereby acquiring a working phone number. This sucks, because we've spent the past two years doing everything we can to avoid scamming and telemarketing calls. Just in case it's something more sinister, I called our telephone provider and gave them notice of this strange call. There will be a note on our file about this call and it will include my concern about the possibility of fraudulent long distance charges or other charges related to the use of our number.

Just goes to show they can nab anyone. See how soon I answer another incoming call with the ID "private caller".

Someone in my family is using a spoof card to call my 85 year-old-mother's land line phone through phony phone #s to tell her everything I am saying. It has her constantly on edge and upset. Why in the world would someone in a person's family do that to their 85- year-old mother. At first I thought she was in on it but then just last night she finally told me "I'm getting sick of this silliness that is going on." She has a land line phone, not a cell. I live with her and this person is using phony phone #s because she doesn't want me to know it is her doing it. She calls my mother from phony phone #s and tells her everything about me. Now, my mother is constantly answering #s she doesn't even recognize because she thinks it is my sister. She is a nervous wreck over it but won't say anything to her because she is afraid of making her mad. I even suspect my sister is somehow listening in on me in our home because she even seems to know things I say aloud to myself in my bedroom. I know it isn't that my mother is hearing me because she is very hard of hearing and does not wear her hearing aids to bed (late at night is when I will say things aloud to myself.) I began doing this (speaking aloud to myself) being I suspected for awhile that my sister was somehow listening in to mine and my mother's conversations.

From what I have been reading here there seems to be no way of stopping this type of craziness. I not only find it childish but illegal as well. This also was happening to me almost 4 years ago. People were telling me that my cell phone # was showing up on their caller ids. I finally called Verizon to see if anyone had the same # as myself and that is when I first heard about spoof cards. Verizon told me it was fairly new but that it was probably how they were able to get my # to show up on others'' caller ids. Why is there not already a law against this? I consider it a criminal act as I have been reading that people often use these spoof cards to call elderly people to try and get personal information from them.

Hi My name is safeer, I have got one phone number which is from south africa, the ring tone is really different it doesnt seem to be a real one..When i tell the person to send me an email. and after i trace it the location is nigeria

can you please tell me why my friend called me and a whole different number showed up? i trust my friend and they swear that they were using their same phone (By the way i have verizon)

Over the past 2 or 3 days my house phone has been receiving calls from numbers that are in my home phone's directory.
we got a call coming from my Grandma's house at 11 o'clock at night. My Father answered thinking it was his mom but it was a really creepy voice just wanting to know who they were speaking to. My Dad said something like. "you called ME, who are you?" and they said something like "i don't know" and finally my Dad hung up.

Then This morning when i was having breakfast with my Dad and little brother, the phone rang. I went to answer it and saw that the caller i.d. said "Daddy" which is a number saved in my phone for my Dad's cell phone. I looked at my Dad and asked him where his phone was and he said it was on the charger in his room. Then my Dad said "ANSWER IT!" because he wanted to see if it was the same people that had called the night before and hopefully get to the bottom of this.

Damn if i didn't actually answer it >:|
well following orders i did, and this time it was a man. i said "Hello" and he said "Hello"
i said "who is this" and of course he said "who's this" i was talking to my dad and said "this is so stupid" and the Guy calling was like "WHAT!" i just hung up after that.

2 minutes later we get a call from my Dad's cell phone again.
i told my Dad "DON'T ANSWER IT! DON'T GIVE THEM THE SATISFACTION!!!" but my Dad refuses to listen.
i was really really creeped out at this point but it got a million time worse.

When my Dad answered all i heard my Dad say was "Hello"...."hello"..........."hello"...........
then my dad hung up.
i asked immediately "what happened?!?!" and my Dad paused and said... He wanted to speak to Angel.

MY NAME IS ANGEL!!!!!!!!
WTF! i was so pissed at my Dad for even answering and INFURIATED that he would actually tell me that!!! i'm so scared!

Yeah, I had someone from an 847 number call my cell phone claiming that they were the police and that I had called them 9 times. I looked the number up and low and behold it was from a local PD, but I know how Police work, they wouldn't have called they would have sent a car out to the house, and I would have been questioned to death as to why I made a prank call. Definitely a creditor, me thinks.

Someone called my phone once AGAIN asking why I called them. I've had to explain numorous times to many people (10-15 in the last 8 months) that I'm not the one making these calls and neither is my phone.....just the number.......
All of the calls I've received have been from the same area code as me......
Most sound understanding but the guy who called today told me he was going to report me to the FCC. hahah Well ok then

I feel bad though when it's an old lady and its later at night.

I do not want to change my number!
SUcky

My ex-girlfriend is pressing charges against me for sending her harrassing text messages. I didn't send them but they show up from my number. How can this happen? I had Verizon have since changed. I have to go to court for something that I didn't do.

just got a call from myself. name was spelled wrong but it was my number....didn't pick it up. glad to see it's not just me. all this info is helpful. I called the police in the event my number is used to harrass people.

Well, I hope someone can tell me how we can all get together to stop this spoofing. I have to say verizon is rather unhelpful and I know the ex boyfriend of mine who has nothing better to do apparently just uses his new girlfriend's computer(and she works for verizon) and has learned all kinds of crazy messed up things to do with his blackberry and god knows how many other phones he has. So con men like him are able to continue to annoy, threaten, and harrass us this dumb spoof thing continues to exist. IF anyone would like to contact me or reply to this and start trying to do something about it, I am all for it. I just want him to go away. :(

If someone has spoofed my phone, will the calls they make using my cell number show up dialed in my phone? There are all these numbers I do not recognize showing up and I even found an online account set up with my number that I never signed up for. My cell battery runs out incredibly quickly and even turns itself off sometimes when the battery is charged. All of this started happening after I lost my phone in a cab and had to get a new one.

these two numbers keep calling my cell and work this number 914-816-4671 he says his name is officer george gary and he sounds arabian. he says it's about a fraud and he said he knows my address and social and told me that a lawsuit will be opened. I live in washington state so I really don't know wth he's talkin about. & this other number 1-866-952-0141 from consumer something they call but it's always a telephone operated service. Any advice?

If your caller ID is showing your own number then someone is trying to get into your voicemail. If you don't have to enter a password to hear your voicemail the call will go straight into it and anyone can hear all of your voicemail messages.

how i can get that

There is a congressional bill in progress to ban these types of calls. It is called S.30 The full text of the bill can be here:
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=s111-30.

What we need to do is put pressure on our congress-persons until they get the job done.

i really hate this guy, keep spamming my email. plz prank call or miss call him 0173481729. or try give cocntinouse commercial to this guy

I am called all day long and into the night from an ex-boyfriend (2 1/2 years ago). He somehow found my new boyfriends number and calls me using a Spoof mechanism. I am forced to unplug my phones at night in order to get sleep. This type of harrasment should be BANNED.
I try to document all of the calls but it's impossible because it happens all day long.

There are some Sick Psychopathic men out there. Why would anyone exert some much energy harrassing another person?

Let's come up with a Solution! These companies need to put out of business.

Don't you think that the police for example could find out who is doing the spoofing by their IP address for computer? I know you have to log in and out of spoof.com.
My situation involves me pressing charges on someone for threatening texts. I really need to know if it was her or someone spoofing.
How can this crap be legal? I heard ppl say they pretend to be the police and use a cop's home number as the fake id. What kind of bs is that??

Start threatening to sue. Maybe that will get someone's attention.

WE SHOULD ALL TRY TO SUE SPOOF.COM
Write the governor.
Stop this bs.
I cannot stand the phone games anymore!!

What's messed up is I was at the police station reporting my daughter's missing cd case when my cell started getting all these really bad and threatening text messages. Caller ID showed they came from a girl I know and I had her charged with harrassing calls. Now I wonder if it was even her. I just don't know what to think but it's not right.

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)