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Robo Calls From Your Own Number...Is This A Problem For Anyone Else?

LexPex — Tue, 03 Mar 2015 19:46:06 GMT

My number of robo calls has seemed to decrease since I am able to block a large number of phone numbers using my new Panasonic phone....Comcast only allowed 20, I think

However, in the past two days I have gotten three phone calls from my own phone # and two were from the infamous "Rachael" from Card Services. I really hate robo calls. Many times, I am busy but run for the phone just in case it is one of my children, DH etc. I know, I should stop running.

I know we have talked about this over the years but thought someone may have found a creative solution.

TIA

Re: Robo Calls From Your Own Number...Is This A Problem For Anyone Else?

chickenbutt — Tue, 03 Mar 2015 19:50:45 GMT

Ugh, don't even get me started on ANY kind of telemarketing.

But, while I've heard about this, I haven't actually seen it on my phones - yet. I've seen it a lot in emails where it appears that the email (to you) came from you. I blame the ISPs for this. There is no reason ANY solicitor or full-on spammer should know my email address and, even in some cases, my full name!

I don't think there is anything you can do about it. But I really hope I'm wrong. I guess you could block it anyway, since there probably isn't a scenario where you are calling yourself from your same phone number. That said, however, it obviously isn't actually FROM your phone number so I have to wonder if that would even work. oy, the things people do! It's maddening.

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WaJa61 — Tue, 03 Mar 2015 19:52:53 GMT

It is an ongoing problem for many -- this "spoofing" of our own phone numbers, so that we can't block the calls as most others.

Somehow we also receive many calls from "out of area" with no number at all listed to block.

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brii — Tue, 03 Mar 2015 19:55:52 GMT

I've never gotten a call from my own number. I guess I can't block that - very clever of them.

Any time I get a call from a number I don't recognize, I google it. Most times, it's a nuisance call and I block it.

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MomOf4 — Tue, 03 Mar 2015 19:59:10 GMT

I don't get robo calls from my own phone number but I get spam emails from my own email address. Thankfully, my spam blocker knows the difference between the spam emails and my personal emails so I don't have to block my own email address!!

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greamy — Tue, 03 Mar 2015 19:59:56 GMT

Today, about an hour ago, I recieved a call to my own number, this was the second one I have received.

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chickenbutt — Tue, 03 Mar 2015 20:01:15 GMT

On 3/3/2015 MomOf4 said:
I don't get robo calls from my own phone number but I get spam emails from my own email address. Thankfully, my spam blocker knows the difference between the spam emails and my personal emails so I don't have to block my own email address!!

That's the one good thing, eh? My ISP also knows the difference, and that they aren't actually from my email addresses so it puts them in the spam folder automatically.

Too bad the phone couldn't do the same thing!

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sunshine45 — Tue, 03 Mar 2015 20:30:03 GMT

i have received them, but i dont let them be a problem because i never answer them and if they should leave a message i delete it.

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straykatz — Tue, 03 Mar 2015 20:58:14 GMT

These telemarketers typical won't and don't leave voice messages so if you get a caller come up on your display that you know is not anyone you wish to or plan to speak with then don't answer....:-)

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2cockers1cat — Tue, 03 Mar 2015 20:59:09 GMT

LexPex, I need a phone like yours. I googled but could only find UK sellers for a Panasonic phone w/call block.

Where did you find it? Can you share the model #?

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RedHeadedWench — Tue, 03 Mar 2015 21:22:07 GMT

I had this happen once. I answered the phone and said ""Really?"" LOL

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chickenbutt — Tue, 03 Mar 2015 21:27:50 GMT

On 3/3/2015 2cockers1cat said:
LexPex, I need a phone like yours. I googled but could only find UK sellers for a Panasonic phone w/call block.

Where did you find it? Can you share the model #?

I'm not her, but I got mine on Amazon. Mine are several years old, but they are model KX-TG6513B. That's the number on the bottom of the main one that has to be plugged in to the electricity. I have 4 or 5 satellite ones around my house.

The good thing - you can block numbers.

The bad thing - it has a 30 number max, so you have to go in and delete some every now and then so you can fit more current ones in. I wish it didn't have that max. Hopefully, hers is more current and better than that.

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2cockers1cat — Tue, 03 Mar 2015 21:42:33 GMT

On 3/3/2015 chickenbutt said:
On 3/3/2015 2cockers1cat said:
LexPex, I need a phone like yours. I googled but could only find UK sellers for a Panasonic phone w/call block.

Where did you find it? Can you share the model #?

I'm not her, but I got mine on Amazon. Mine are several years old, but they are model KX-TG6513B. That's the number on the bottom of the main one that has to be plugged in to the electricity. I have 4 or 5 satellite ones around my house.

The good thing - you can block numbers.

The bad thing - it has a 30 number max, so you have to go in and delete some every now and then so you can fit more current ones in. I wish it didn't have that max. Hopefully, hers is more current and better than that.

Thanks for your help. Heading to Amazon.

Adding: ordered one w/6 handsets, Panasonic KX-TG7875S. Looking forward to the power of blocking more than the 12 #'s our phone company allows.

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LucyGoose — Tue, 03 Mar 2015 22:09:00 GMT

Yeah, I got a call to my house from my own number one time. I thought that was weird.

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ROMARY — Tue, 03 Mar 2015 23:35:56 GMT

Yep, when I 'took a message' from a solicitor, she gave me my own phone number! I said, 'Thank you, and I'll give them the message and your phone number'.

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lovescats — Tue, 03 Mar 2015 23:41:46 GMT

It's called spoofing. I wouldn't bother blocking numbers because all those people who work at the call centers have their own phone numbers. If your own number comes up don't answer or any other number you don't know let them leave you a message.

from http://www.fcc.gov/guides/caller-id-and-spoofing

Caller ID service, however, is susceptible to fraud. Using a practice known as "caller ID spoofing," callers can deliberately falsify the telephone number and/or name relayed as the Caller ID information to disguise the identity of the calling party.

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shaggygirl — Wed, 04 Mar 2015 01:56:03 GMT

At least once a week I see a call coming in from my own phone and every couple of weeks I see one from a totally different number we also have on a landline phone in a family member's bedroom when he isn't even at home and if he was he certainly wouldn't be calling me on the phone to talk while we're both at home.

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JustJazzmom — Wed, 04 Mar 2015 02:37:43 GMT

On 3/3/2015 chickenbutt said:
On 3/3/2015 2cockers1cat said:
LexPex, I need a phone like yours. I googled but could only find UK sellers for a Panasonic phone w/call block.

Where did you find it? Can you share the model #?

I'm not her, but I got mine on Amazon. Mine are several years old, but they are model KX-TG6513B. That's the number on the bottom of the main one that has to be plugged in to the electricity. I have 4 or 5 satellite ones around my house.

The good thing - you can block numbers.

The bad thing - it has a 30 number max, so you have to go in and delete some every now and then so you can fit more current ones in. I wish it didn't have that max. Hopefully, hers is more current and better than that.

I've got the same one chickenbutt only its KX-TG6512B which has 2 handsets. One handset is plugged into an outlet and the other is on a wall in the kitchen.

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redhead handbag queen — Wed, 04 Mar 2015 02:52:24 GMT

On 3/3/2015 WaJa61 said:
It is an ongoing problem for many -- this "spoofing" of our own phone numbers, so that we can't block the calls as most others.

Somehow we also receive many calls from "out of area" with no number at all listed to block.

You can block out of area calls without a number if you have a panasonic (maybe other models also) just goggle it and it will give you directions. I blocked this, private caller, my own number and 000-000-0000 . It takes awhile after you start blocking numbers but I get maybe 1-2 calls a week at most now.

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cotton4me — Wed, 04 Mar 2015 03:19:37 GMT

We've had calls from our own number too. We called the phone company to complain and they explained that it's called ""spoofing"". I'd never heard that term before. We get so many crazy calls now that we never pick up unless we recognize the number.