I have gotten many scam calls on my cellphone but never one with name on caller ID. I usually never answer any calls from someone I don't know. I just let them go to voicemail. Most of them originate in Medford, NJ an adjoining town from where I live. As it just so happens I arranged with a business in Medford to tear down an old shed on my property. Today when I got a call with a name of person in that town and I answered because I thought it was the business calling to reschedule. It was just the latest of your Apple Cloud account is frozen. Press 1 to speak to an agent to fix the problem. The funny thing is the name on my ID is an actual person in Medford. He is a CPA. That is sick. These scammers can just take a real person's name and create havoc. Can easily cost that person new clients. What is to stop a scammer from taking the name of an actual relative and spoof their number so you would answer. Supposedly there is new technology to put an end to all this. The program is called Shaken Not Stirred, the code obviously written by a James Bond fan. Hopefully in the next few years this will prevent spoofers until they are able to create a new hack to beat it. This is really dangerous stuff. Someone can spoof a hospital name and number and tell you a family member was in a auto accident causing the person to rush to that hospital when it's totally fake.
Somehow they know when you move around now. Everytime my mom comes to visit from out of state, she starts getting scam calls from my area code, but only while she's here.
I got a call from myself one day should of answered it could of been betting tips from the futurehno:
Hahah
I have a rich family member who just died in S Africa, seems he moved from Nigeria and died again
I received a scary e-mail just last night. Said my Pay.Pal was suspended for fraudulent activity and it provided me a link to log in and fix security issues. Of course I didn't use the link, logged into Pay.Pal initiating my own connection, and everything is fine.
I received a scary e-mail just last night. Said my Pay.Pal was suspended for fraudulent activity and it provided me a link to log in and fix security issues. Of course I didn't use the link, logged into Pay.Pal initiating my own connection, and everything is fine.
Article from USA Today dated 7/11/19. The sooner this happens the better but like I said the coders who develop programs to spoof people will eventually develop a work around to continue scamming. It's too lucrative to stop.
A Robocall Summit hosted by the Federal Communications Commission is serving as a progress report on what major phone carriers are doing to protect you from those incessant robocalls interrupting your life.
All the major carriers were at the summit in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, along with other industry professionals. The people in the room all had a role in developing what's called the SHAKEN/STIR standard. But you didn't have to attend to get a grasp of how SHAKEN/STIR is going to alert you to robocalls. (If you want, you can watch the live stream here.)
This is everything you need to know about the SHAKEN/STIR call verification:
Robocall 'crackdown':FTC blocks more than a billion illegal calls, but problem festers
[h=3]What is SHAKEN/STIR, anyway?[/h]SHAKEN/STIR stands for Signature-based Handling of Asserted information using toKENs and the Secure Telephone Identity Revisited. It's a mouthful.
Don’t worry, you don’t have to remember what it stands for; just know that it’s meant to protect you from all these annoying calls.
Basically what SHAKEN/STIR does is verify calls that are coming to your phone. Robocallers have turned to “neighborhood spoofing” – or replicating a number within your area code that looks familiar to you so there’s a better chance of picking up the phone. Once you pick up the phone, they know your line is active and, therefore, you are likely to get more calls.
[h=3]How does it work?[/h]SHAKEN/STIR will verify with a symbol such as a check mark that the person calling you is, indeed, authentic and calling you from the number on your screen. While call verification doesn’t block robocalls from reaching your phone, it gives you more information to make a decision to answer the call. It also tracks where the call is originating, identifying potential scammers.
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A Robocall Summit hosted by the Federal Communications Commission is serving as a progress report on what major phone carriers are doing to protect you from those incessant robocalls interrupting your life.
All the major carriers were at the summit in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, along with other industry professionals. The people in the room all had a role in developing what's called the SHAKEN/STIR standard. But you didn't have to attend to get a grasp of how SHAKEN/STIR is going to alert you to robocalls. (If you want, you can watch the live stream here.)
This is everything you need to know about the SHAKEN/STIR call verification:
Robocall 'crackdown':FTC blocks more than a billion illegal calls, but problem festers
[h=3]What is SHAKEN/STIR, anyway?[/h]SHAKEN/STIR stands for Signature-based Handling of Asserted information using toKENs and the Secure Telephone Identity Revisited. It's a mouthful.
Don’t worry, you don’t have to remember what it stands for; just know that it’s meant to protect you from all these annoying calls.
Basically what SHAKEN/STIR does is verify calls that are coming to your phone. Robocallers have turned to “neighborhood spoofing” – or replicating a number within your area code that looks familiar to you so there’s a better chance of picking up the phone. Once you pick up the phone, they know your line is active and, therefore, you are likely to get more calls.
[h=3]How does it work?[/h]SHAKEN/STIR will verify with a symbol such as a check mark that the person calling you is, indeed, authentic and calling you from the number on your screen. While call verification doesn’t block robocalls from reaching your phone, it gives you more information to make a decision to answer the call. It also tracks where the call is originating, identifying potential scammers.
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