How is it possible for someone to call using my home phone number?

[Birdlover1]

We have a landline phone.  This a.m. at 10:24 a.m. my caller ID informed me that someone was calling using my home phone number?  When I picked it up and said hello,  I could hear noise, but no one responded. The caller ID gave the name of my deceased (for 10 years) father-in-law?????

Has my system been hacked?  Please tell me what the Heck is going on?  This is very creepy and I want it to stop!

[ElizabethS]

There was no hack. It is much like emails that "spoof" your email address and send out spam from what appears to be your email.  In this case it is a scammer or robo call that has spoofed the phone number, likely from a very old list they got access to.

[Birdlover1]

Thank you!

[bubbagump1]

for almost one week now - the calls and messages portion of fios site - (my phone is turned off due to a stroke in family) i check my calls every few days online.....so the calls and messages states tht since the 23 of this month - multiple phone calls all hours of the day; are being made from my home phone, to 311 and 211...all hours middle of nite etc - no one is ever home when these calls are made out from my #. ????????

i called verizon today - they didnt have any answer fo rme.......

soooo?????what do i do?  i have taken the batteries out of my handheld unit see if that works.

[manhattanNYC1]

forget it, you lost nothing

[bubbagump1]

it even happens when phone battery and phone disconnected..????? y

[Birdlover1]

I only had this happen one time.  No one else had a solution for me....but I was pretty sure the caller ID had been fooled with somehow(?)  I did nothing different with the phone and it hasn't happened again.  Sorry, I can't be more helpful.

[manhattanNYC1]

set up Do Not Distrub couple days,