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Re:Americans lost $10B; caused by illegal Indian call centre... by ligerzer0 on Tuesday December 27, 2022 @03:33PM (#34153413)
What blows my mind is scammers can spoof real people's phone numbers... Like shouldn't that be a top priority to shut down ?
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Re:Americans lost $10B; caused by illegal Indian call centre... by iancmceachern on Tuesday December 27, 2022 @07:53PM (#34156092)
Yes, I've even had them spoof law enforcement phone numbers, we should have the technology to shut that down
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Re:Americans lost $10B; caused by illegal Indian call centre... by heavyset_go on Tuesday December 27, 2022 @09:58PM (#34157003)
That sounds like it might cost money, though. It's free to just do nothing about it.
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Re:Americans lost $10B; caused by illegal Indian call centre... by EchoReflection on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @01:21AM (#34158056)
Someone very close to me recently got scammed by someone calling from a fake Wells Fargo fraud prevention phone number
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