Hello everyone,
I’m not sure if this is the right place for this topic, but I’ve noticed others posting similar issues, so I thought I’d share my experience. A few months ago, I began receiving calls from random people asking why I had called them. Apparently, it appeared that I had called them first. Initially, I was skeptical, but one polite individual even showed me the call log with the time my number supposedly called.
This started happening after I initiated the cancellation of my contract with Sunrise, though the contract is still valid for another year. Has anyone experienced something similar? If so, what should I do? How is it possible for someone to use my number like this?
Any advice or insights would be greatly appreciated.
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Posted by AlbanianPhoenix
2 Comments
It’s called spoofing. Other people fake-use your number to do malicious calls. There is nothing you can do. (Except changing your number if it annoys you)
[https://www.srf.ch/news/panorama/taeglich-ueber-100-anrufe-spoofing-telefon-terror-durch-geklaute-nummer](https://www.srf.ch/news/panorama/taeglich-ueber-100-anrufe-spoofing-telefon-terror-durch-geklaute-nummer)
Criminals spoof their number so they can show the receiver any number they want. They do this to get more victims to pick up as people are more likely to accept a call from a domestic number.
That this time it happens to be your number is no fault of your part. The criminals just spoof random numbers, some aren’t even in use.
You can either wait for this wave to die down as criminals will switch to other numbers eventually or get a new phone number for yourself.