Re: OT: spam phone calls

On Tue, 13 May 2025 22:52:51 +1000, Daniel70 wrote:

On 9/04/2025 4:55 am, Mark Lloyd wrote:

Currently, I find that most (not all) junk calls have the caller ID
NAME the same as the number.

WHAT?? So it looks like the Caller is phoning the Caller?? Really??
That'd be a bit of a Give-away, wouldn't it?? ;-)

IIRC these calls were successful at getting picked up because of recipient
 curiosity. They were quite common here (AZ US) for awhile and actually had
 newspaper warnings advising folks not to pick them up...