Damn Stupid Smartphone. Has This Ever Happened To you?

I have NO idea how they do it, but some scam artists have figured out how to "spoof" a phone number. I mean, if you look it up it either 1) doesn't exist or 2) belongs to a 3rd party who doesn't know its been spoofed - like a church in one of our cases!

That is definitely a strange one...I have never had something like that happen to me...did you ever find out how & why?

are you sure you dialed the right number? How about calling the phone company and asking them.

Sounds like a scammer just using an automatic dial machine. I cannot understand why one am in the morning. Most of my telemarketing calls come in the morning when I am doing my piano or singing practice. I do go out in the afternoon and my cell phone ring os smothered by the rest of the things in my purse so cannot hear it.

Here there is a kind of criminal case. That is you will see the number like 110 displayed from your cellphone which this is an emergency police call number. So you will not have a doubt that this is a call from the police. But actually you are wrong. The criminal uses a software so that they can hide their real number but show the specified number. However, some people don't know it and therefore it is easy to fall into the criminals' trap. I want to say that this may be the case like yours. This is why I seldom will pick up a phone number which I don't know. I love China

Yes, there are a lot of apps that can do that. You could talk with your company and ask them to block numbers or register for the DoNotCall Registry.

Some scams and hackers do the best they can do just to irritate us. It happens all over the world who has a phone. We just don't know how they do it.

A stupidphone doesn't have the same marketing appeal.

That's really weird. At first my mind jumped to something creepy or supernatural lol. But after reading what other people posted it sounds a lot more practical that it was just telemarketers or scammers. I know there is an actual app where you can call someone's phone and choose the number you want to show up. I'm sure scammers can do that too and they just chose a random number with your local area code or whatever you use for your local phone numbers. If that's the case, then the number probably doesn't really exist and it was just made up. Hopefully that's what happened because it would be a little creepy if it was something else besides a scammer. I have an iphone and a few times when I've answered a call it does a weird beep and then almost like this weird screaming thing. My boyfriend has even said he's heard it while talking to me on the phone but it only happens at my house. I don't think he's trying to scare me, because I've heard the same thing too a few times when I've picked up the phone. I'm not sure if it's an iphone thing or what lol

my experience, is that my phone rang and there was just a name and no number, but my phone kept on ringing, I didn't really mind it at first but I was curious if who it was, then I answered the call and the person on the other line didn't talk, I just kept quiet then after a minute I put the call down already. This happened many times, and I began to get annoyed so I tried to change my setting to block the number, but while checking out my phone, I discovered that my phone had a "fake call" feature, then when I tried it, it was my caller and the button near the volume button. From then on I immediately disabled it. try to check your phone maybe it has the same features.