[E-trademarks] Wow Big Scam Alert..

[Terry Carroll]

On Wed, 22 Nov 2023, Laurie Marshall via E-trademarks wrote:


> How can scammers get the phone number to
> appear on people?s phones?? This is incredibly concerning! 

It's called "Caller-ID spoofing"; 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caller_ID_spoofing . It's been widespread 
for almost as long as caller-ID has been around. Basically, you cannot 
rely on the accuracy of an apparent caller-ID.

-- 
Terry Carroll
carroll at tjc.com