Pretty sure this is made up.
- How would the scammer know they were the ones who posted their number on Craigslist.
- Scammer’s number is usually a spoof. Not the actual number.
Also no scammer would not take the opportunity to scam more people.
Yeah becareful about 2. I have gotten at least 3 angry phone calls now from people I don’t know telling me to stop calling them when it wasn’t me :/
I once had a spam caller call with my own number spoofed. Awkward.
That’s how you could get to voicemail with no pin. Phone companies had/have the crappiest security.
Got another one today. I get 1 or 2 every month.
Damn that sucks 😞
At this point I have developed a spiel for them. I apologize and let them know that I have not called anyone, but that some spammer likes to spoof my number on the regular and that I get one of these calls every few weeks. If they are still angry or say something about me needing to change my number, i mention 2 factor authentication and that it would take me literally years to break free of this number and even then there would be issues, so it just isn’t worth it yet.
- The scam link is invalid
Also that URL they linked isn’t even a valid link
It can be if they’ve already tricked you into using their VPN, but I think you might have to he advanced stupid to fall for that AND the text
As I like a good scammer scamming, they use spoofing technique to masked their real numbers. So don’t do that
As others have said, there is no way those scam/spam messages are actually coming from that number.
You can report scammers to the FTC using your number and the time of the call, as well as their number, name, and any additional information:
https://www.donotcall.gov/report.html#step1
I highly recommend this because, believe it or not, these scammers do get caught. The sooner the better, they can do irreparable harm in the meantime to people more vulnerable than you.
All the ones calling me are from India. The FTC has no power there.
And they’re spoofing the number.
For as vulnerable as SS7 is, there are records for calls at the phone companies that can be traced back to the offending members.
In order to run these operations requires a well regulated access point.
There isn’t a person sitting on a phone sending thousands of texts. These are spoofed numbers. There is no human on the other end whose phone will get inundated with calls if you post their number online.
Aren’t those numbers typically just from servers rather than an actual SIM card in a physical phone?
They are from SIM card farms.
Usually they are just spoofed, and the real owner of the number is innocent.
My dad took my old phone out to a SIM card farm upstate
Nature is beautiful
Really makes you proud to be living in the golden age.
Jesus Christ, how horrifying.
Wait till you see the crypto mining setups
Not to forget the like-farms.
Or the social selling factories
again, an instance of funny proves tech illiteracy and boundless idiocy
Scam calls and texts always use call ID spoofing. Blocking them would be easy if they used their actual number.
And now you’re banned from Craigslist.
Win win
