{"id":8781,"date":"2019-12-12T07:32:49","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T12:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/?p=8781"},"modified":"2019-11-18T07:27:22","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T12:27:22","slug":"for-all-the-people-who-think-i-just-called-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2019\/12\/12\/for-all-the-people-who-think-i-just-called-them\/","title":{"rendered":"For all the people who think I just called them&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PS3llQfRLD8\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This video does a lovely job of warning people who are the recipients of spoofing:  a scam phone call that uses another phone number as a mask for caller ID.  What&#8217;s not really explained is what happens when it&#8217;s your number that is being used as that caller ID mask.  You&#8217;d think nothing, right?  Scammers would, effectively, be impersonating you by using your phone number without you ever knowing.  The call isn&#8217;t actually coming from your phone or your account.  There is no outgoing call record to verify, so you would have no proof anything is ever happening, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The reality is that a good amount of people are inclined to call back when they miss a call on their cell phones, which has resulted in a parade of annoyed and frustrated people who don&#8217;t believe me when I tell them I did not call them.  Though I suppose being frustrated with me is better than having taken that call in the first place.  If you&#8217;ve ever received a call like this, don&#8217;t give away any of your information!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The only option I have found for people whose numbers are being used for this scam is to change numbers or live with it.  If you find out any solution, let me know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This video does a lovely job of warning people who are the recipients of spoofing: a scam phone call that uses another phone number as a mask for caller ID. What&#8217;s not really explained is what happens when it&#8217;s your number that is being used as that caller ID mask. You&#8217;d think nothing, right? Scammers&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2019\/12\/12\/for-all-the-people-who-think-i-just-called-them\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">For all the people who think I just called them&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[178],"class_list":["post-8781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-ranting"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4864,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2013\/12\/21\/where-you-cannot-disappear-and-you-have-no-privacy\/","url_meta":{"origin":8781,"position":0},"title":"Where you cannot disappear and you have no privacy","author":"leems","date":"December 21, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"I just finished watching The Last Enemy.\u00a0 It took me back to the days when I would troll the literature section for stories about dystopian futures.\u00a0 Most of those stories were commenting on issues happening in the world already and The Last Enemy is no exception.\u00a0 It is a fabulous\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blog&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blog","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/category\/blog\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"necessaryandproportionate","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/necessaryandproportionate.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":6595,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2015\/10\/18\/mask\/","url_meta":{"origin":8781,"position":1},"title":"mask","author":"leems","date":"October 18, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blog&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blog","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/category\/blog\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"2015drawlloween18","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015drawlloween18-445x600.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4003,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2013\/05\/27\/dreaming\/","url_meta":{"origin":8781,"position":2},"title":"dreaming","author":"leems","date":"May 27, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"I had a dream a few nights ago.\u00a0 In my dream, I was in some nameless and fantastical European city, surrounded by strange architecture.\u00a0 While passing through a pedestrian square I lamented not bringing a camera other than my phone and struggled to capture a picture of a giant marble\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blog&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blog","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/category\/blog\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"from a dream","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/from-a-dream.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":5225,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2014\/08\/11\/american-manifesto-boing-boing\/","url_meta":{"origin":8781,"position":3},"title":"American Manifesto &#8211; Boing Boing","author":"leems","date":"August 11, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0 American Manifesto by\u00a0Todd Thyberg via Boing Boing is a fabulous piece of thoroughly cited education.\u00a0 How can we hope to play our part in our country if we don't know the facts?\u00a0 And how can we call it our country if we don't play our part?","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blog&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blog","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/category\/blog\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/14.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/14.png?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/14.png?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":10732,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2023\/08\/11\/the-mixed-border\/","url_meta":{"origin":8781,"position":4},"title":"The mixed border","author":"leems","date":"August 11, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Right after buying the house I decided we needed to eliminate all the grass in between the front sidewalk, that ran a kind of wonky-parallel to the house from the driveway to the door, and the house. 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