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Originally Posted by Bring_Back_Shantz
I'm really curious who the people are who are calling and/or texting people saying "you just called me".
I've had 2 or 3 people call and say that, and one very funny text interaction with someone who really couldn't understand that I didn't call them, and why I wouldn't tell them who I was.
Even if these people have never heard of spoofing, have they never heard of an wrong number?
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I had a conversation with a guy who was convinced that I called him in the middle of the night. I had to explain what spoofing was and sent a link to an article about it.
I think the only harm is that if the spammer manages to learn your name they can start doing some social engineering and calling people you know to get more and more information. I barely can recognize anybody’s voice on the phone. If somebody called me from a recognized number and identified themselves by a name I knew, who knows. I can imagine them calling some elderly people pretending to be their children and gleaning enough personal information to steal a person’s identity.