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Phone call from same mobile phone number as my mum but my mum didnt call me

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  • 11-08-2021 11:33pm
    #1
    demello
    Registered Users Posts: 147 ✭✭


    Hi.

    I got a call todsy from my mum's mobile phone number but it was not her. Her mobile is with her and she didnt call me. How can that be ?



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    #2
    atheist
    Registered Users Posts: 251 ✭✭atheist


    it's a standard tactic for scammers to fake callerID

    CallerID is sent as a rapid set of tones between the first and second rings.

    Similar tones to those used by the phone phreakers like Steve Wosniak's blue boxes that raised the funds to launch Apple. So it dates back away,



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