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[RedHeadedWench]

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

[chickenbutt]

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.

[2cockers1cat]

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.

[LucyGoose]

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

[ROMARY]

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'.

[lovescats]

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.

[shaggygirl]

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.

[JustJazzmom]

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.

[redhead handbag queen]

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.

[cotton4me]

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.