My home number has been spoofed where someone is using my number calling others. They are making several calls to others with my number and the people are calling me back. This has been going on for over a few weeks and I have issued 3 complaints with the FCC. The people who have been called are starting to get angry and calling us names. The FCC website says it takes approx. 30 days to answer a complaint. We can't continue to get harrassing calls because someone else is harrassing others. I don't know what to do.
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Unfortunately, there is little that an end user can do when their telephone number is being spoofed by a "boiler room" telemarketer.
Filing complaints/reports with Verizon and the FCC are options. The most extreme option would be to change your telephone number, but even going that route, there is no guarantee that it won't happen again.
Other options would be to activate Anonymous Call Rejection and, maybe, change the voicemail greeting to explain that your number is being spoofed and the calls being received are not being made by you.
The upside is that telemarketers tend to change the telephone number that they pass along with their calls often, so it may simply be a case of waiting for the storm to pass.
Unfortunately, there is little that an end user can do when their telephone number is being spoofed by a "boiler room" telemarketer.
Filing complaints/reports with Verizon and the FCC are options. The most extreme option would be to change your telephone number, but even going that route, there is no guarantee that it won't happen again.
Other options would be to activate Anonymous Call Rejection and, maybe, change the voicemail greeting to explain that your number is being spoofed and the calls being received are not being made by you.
The upside is that telemarketers tend to change the telephone number that they pass along with their calls often, so it may simply be a case of waiting for the storm to pass.
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