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Originally Posted by Deskisamess
When I say "spoof calls" I'm talking about numbers that can actually be a real number. Most of the ones we get now use a 417 exchange, which is what Verizon uses in my area. In some cases, they are actual phone numbers, not of the scam caller, but of someone with a Verizon phone.
That is what makes them impossible and or not wise to block. The scammers use a number that starts with the same 6 numbers as the number they are calling. So it looks like a local call.
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Okay. I see what you mean now. I know there's nothing that can be done about these. A couple weeks ago my wife and I both got calls from 816 (our area code is 817) with our own numbers for the last seven digits. This kind of spoofing has to be dealt with by phone companies (they can trace origination, or at least try to do so, depending on how sophisticated the spoofing is), but phones denying calls from unknown numbers, private numbers and spoof numbers like 000000 is just a matter of blocking calls that don't have standard telephone numbers. That's why I can't understand why Apple won't do it.