phone scam?

[PinkLadyK]

Who does that? Who calls back a random number that called them? If the person was really trying to reach you, they would have left a message. /rant

I've had several numbers that look like my number call me. Once I answered and was rather rude to the person on the other end of the line. My son overheard and had a million follow-up questions. Lesson learned: don't answer.

[kasb713]

How funny. I had a similar experience. I received a long voicemail from someone with the same area code who apparently was receiving calls from someone spoofing my number. I played the person's voicemail to a friend when I was trying to figure out what had happened. Then when I was trying to play the message for another coworker, I accidentally Clicked "Call Back" -I immediately hung up, but received a text message a minute later saying "STOP!!!" I texted back explaining the situation and haven't heard anything since.

[kreeyax]

Originally Posted by Matadora

Block each number.

I once upon a time I believed that registering my number on the National Do Not Call List worked...but sadly it does not work like it did in the early years of cell phone rights.

You'd just be blocking real people with numbers that have your same npa-nxx, they aren't spammers they are spoofing real numbers. I've even had a call from my own number before! When I see calls from my same npa-nxx now I just don't answer because I know it's a spammer.

[mkwensky]

Thanks for the responses.
Sounds like I can't get in trouble from this so I'll just regard it as a minor inconvenience and disregard those calls.