I actually got a spam call from myself once. They spoofed my own number. Got a bunch of followup calls, voicemails, and texts for a month or so after that.
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bus_factor@lemmy.world 2 days agoYou realize that the spam is not coming from the actual line owning the number, right? They can spoof the number, so they could make it look like it came from any number. If they put some effort into researching you, they could make the spam look like it came from your mom.
Tayb@lemmy.world 1 day ago
CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Yes. We need authentication and authorization at both levels.
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Lol, we can’t even get ISPs to not pass traffic from their networks with source IPs they don’t even fucking own. Getting telcos (more often than not the same people) to spend money on a new technology is going to be difficult when they refuse to update a goddamned router config.
ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Amusingly I got a spam call last week that came up on caller ID as “Obama 2012”.
thejml@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
A few years ago I got a spam call from my own number. Who would fall for that?!