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Originally Posted by Weitz
I’d sure love to hear how someone steals your bank account or identity with your phone number!
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Spoofing a outgoing # will do nothing to help someone access an account. They would have to spoof a SIM card, to get the texts and calls going TO that phone number. They could then access accounts by doing password resets that have 2FA enabled via text messages etc.
In these cases where a scammer is just using the number basically as the caller ID #, it's doing nothing in their favor. That's like using someone else's email as the reply-to address, instead of actually gaining access to that email account.
To OP, just have your wife ignore the calls. This will become more common place with the new rules implemented for blocking scam calls. They will collect legit phone numbers and use them to spoof to get around that.