In 2020, it’s more important than ever to practice safety when it comes to your personal identification. However, spoofing a number that the victim recognizes, has become a popular scenario for scam artists and pranksters alike. With more and more people starting to ignore calls from unfamiliar numbers and sending them to voicemail automatically, it has made pulling off a classic prank call trickier.

They use it to actually scam others by faking the number so the recipient thinks it is someone local, or a person or business they know.

They attempt to confirm or investigate a “potential” scam call.

They investigate a number they are curious about.

They call a debt collector with a spoofed number to avoid repeated calls in the future.

They want to reserve their actual phone number for their close family and friends while using a secondary number for “social media” friends and other parties.

They want a secondary number captured by recipients.

They protect their privacy and phone information from being captured and sold to third parties.

They perform a classic prank call to their neighbor or friend.

People spoof caller ID numbers for a wide variety of reasons.

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