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All of us (at least in the US, and probably Canada as well) have probably gotten those robocalls trying to sell auto warranties/fix credit cards/ whatever, always from a spoofed caller ID. These guys break at least
4 US laws/regulations that I can think of - calling do-not-call numbers, calling cell phones, machine sales pitch if you answer, spoofed caller ID. They've managed to avoid being shut down although there was a little effort to look into this when they called a congressman during a meeting or something.How do they seem to get their large volume of calls into the phone system? (VOIP?) How do they choose the number to spoof? They seem to choose a number, use it for a few days and then start using another according to data on
I haven't heard from them for a while, until today. This time they did something different. I received a call from the 702 area code on my older cell phone and when I looked at the call list to see where it was from, the phone number field was a bunch of left-pointing arrows and the "from" and time were a bunch of Chinese characters. What did they do to my phone and how? Trying to "return" the call to see what number it called didn't work.