OK folks, if you’re on AT&T, beware of calls coming in from your own cell number.
They play a recording with the AT&T jingle that says your phone has been flagged for fraud and to say the last four digits of your Social Security number.
I hope each and every one of you realizes that this is fraud and AT&T will never actually do this. Please answer the call the same way I did by loudly saying “F*** OFF!” and then hanging up.
Be sure to call 611 on your cell phone if you get such a call so you can let them know this is happening.
No, this isn’t some social media reshare garbage. I got 4 calls from my cell phone # this afternoon and answered the 4th one.
lol. so who are you going to charge with violating the do not call list? he said the call appeared to originate from his own number . The calling numbers are forged. This is part of a huge national problem the FCC named robocalling. I’ve personally worked with Verizon and AT&T on attempts at solutions. This problem is far beyond a do not call list and tracking down the originating parties will require a major upgrade to the carrier networks.
As long as the carriers are willing to sell PRIs with a digital signalling channel that lets you set anything you want as Caller ID, you’ll have this problem. When they start filtering phone #s on those lines, you’ll start seeing the problem disappearing.
The PRI problem was easy to solve. 20 years ago all the switch vendors implemented “network screening”. If a carrier sells you a 100 block of numbers with your PRI, then the carrier should screen any numbers on your PRI to make sure the calling number is in that range; otherwise they replace it with the billing number. The problem of robocalling was caused by the proliferation of VoIP and SIP. Combine that with unscrupulous tier 3 carriers and bad actors can forge any number. The solution involves something like “network screening” above but in a way so the screening can not be forged by using digital certificates and signing every call. Initially unscreened calls will allow the called party to reject the call. Eventually unsigned calls might be blocked outright.
This is just one of multiple ways bad actors try to trick you into trusting their call. You can’t block them all. It’s like trying to apply spam filtering. Wait until one of these guys figure out how to download your address book and call you from your friends number. It’s only a matter of time.
. The calling numbers are forged. This is part of a huge national problem the FCC named robocalling. I’ve personally worked with Verizon and AT&T on attempts at solutions. This problem is far beyond a do not call list and tracking down the originating parties will require a major upgrade to the carrier networks.