My phone started to ring, it had my number. When I picked it up no one answered. I see the log and is my same phone number, I call back and I get to introduce the password of my voicemail. WTF?
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iPhone X I got a phone call from my own number ¿?
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More than likely, a scammer spoofed your number.
Scammers can spoof any caller ID number, including your own. I imagine their robodialer software can simply set the caller ID spoofed number equal to whatever number its dialing.
That part is perfectly normal. Maybe people forget, but before Visual Voicemail you'd access your voicemail by calling your own telephone number and entering your voicemail password.
Yes, I agree.
But what I don't get is why so many scammers don't say anything after I pick up, just like OP says. I'd say at least 1 out of 5. What's the scam exactly?
The only thing I can imagine is that the caller is a robocalling company working for a legit customer that wants telephone polling or something, and the caller is cooking the books with inflated call numbers in order to charge their customer more.
Most call centers call more numbers than they have live agents. This is because they know that some people won’t answer, some are bad numbers, some might get a busy signal. Once a call is answered and the system detects that is isn’t someone’s voicemail it queues the call to an agent. Sometimes they have more live calls than agents and you won’t get transferred to a live agent straight away, but get queued up. Stay on long enough and you will probably get to talk to someone. Or not. But don’t worry if you answer they know yours is a live number and will try you again.
Robo caller spoofing you phone number. I have had it say “Police” before. There is no limit to what is can say. Makes it impossible to block.
Not impossible to block. When the first 6 digits match your own they are referred to as neighbor calls and Hiya is one app that will block them.
I had that happen a couple weeks back. I didn't bother answering. In all fairness, I had spoken to myself earlier that day and already knew what the call was regarding.
A lot of times they do this to see who picks up and answers so they can see which numbers are valid. They either sell those lists or use it themselves later.
My wife and also a good friend of mine have the first same 6 as me so I can't block the block of those numbers. So I'm endlessly getting these calls.
