Recieved a phone call today, and the caller ID said "illegal scam"

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July 18, 2018, 12:28 PM

Lord Vaalic

Recieved a phone call today, and the caller ID said "illegal scam"

Is this something the government can do to companies that have been busted or something? The caller ID actually said "illegal scam" on the phone. My wife and I were laughing pretty hard.

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July 18, 2018, 12:44 PM

eyrich

Cell phone or Home?
Cell phone maybe you have an app or the built in dialer did a reverse lookup in a user contributed database.

Home - I got nothing on how that would happen.

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July 18, 2018, 12:57 PM

saigonsmuggler

If you run a Nexus or Pixel phone, the caller ID might say that because Google crowd source those data.

July 18, 2018, 01:02 PM

Rey HRH

If you tried out an anti-spam phone app, it created that entry. If you get a new phone call and wish to add the number to the “illegal scam” contact, it may say which app added that entry.

I’ve since removed the app but the contact Spam is still in my contacts with a long list of numbers.

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July 18, 2018, 01:45 PM

Lord Vaalic

Its on a home phone. We never use it, so we know anyone calling is telemarketing, because nobody even has the number.

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July 18, 2018, 02:15 PM

NavyGuy

We (Wife and I) get "Scam Likely" several times a day. This comes from filtering done by T-Mobile. I don't know what criteria they use, but to my knowledge they've never been wrong.

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July 18, 2018, 02:38 PM

Perception

My cell phone came with an app that does this, it wouldn't surprise me to hear that the company that provides caller ID is jumping on the same bandwagon. It's an incredibly useful feature.

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July 18, 2018, 05:26 PM

egregore

One of these days, I'm going to answer one of these callers, "Johnson City Police, Fraud Division," and see what they do. That's the only time my phones even ring.

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July 18, 2018, 06:53 PM

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I use the Robokiller App and it is great. You can set up answer bots, many to choose from, or make up your own. Costs about 25.00 but worth it. My phone doesn't even ring when its a spam call, the app knows its spam and automatically blocks it. And yes, you can unblock calls that are legit.

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July 19, 2018, 12:02 AM

bubbatime

My home phone does the same thing.

Caller ID will say telemarketer, or scam, or do not answer, etc. Pretty sweet.

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July 19, 2018, 09:33 AM

harvey976g

My phone does something similar, the screen will be red with either Potential/Suspicious Call. The other thing my phone will do is when I receive a call from an unknown number it will ask if it was a scam or telemarketer number to flag.

July 19, 2018, 03:06 PM

V-Tail

quote:
Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:
Hmmm, which raises the question. Is there such a thing as a legal scam?

Have you ever seen anybody use an EBT card, then schlep the ill-gotten gains out to the Lexus SUV in the Walmart parking lot?

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July 20, 2018, 09:02 AM

henryaz

A recent (past couple of years) scam is to have caller ID show a call from your local exchange. The ones I get use the 928-231- exchange, which is Verizon's block for Wickenburg cell phones. The problem with blocking it is their equipment picks random numbers within the exchange, so it is a different number each time. Sometimes it even picks numbers that belong to customers. My next door neighbor got two calls "from me". They identified to her as me because she has my number in her Contacts list. I had to try to convince her I had not called her, because it looked just like a call from me.