caller ID spoofing
Faking phone origin
Caller ID spoofing is the practice of deliberately falsifying the phone number displayed on a recipient's caller ID.
Telemarketers, scammers, and pranksters use it to disguise their identity or make calls appear to come from trusted sources like banks or government agencies.
The technology is also used legitimately by businesses wanting calls to display a main office number rather than individual extensions.
- scamDishonest money-making scheme
- phishingFraudulent credential harvesting
- fraudIntentional criminal trickery
- IRS scamFraudulent revenue agency impersonation
- tech support scamFake technician extortion scheme
grandparent scam · robocall · blocked · unknown · spam · telemarketer · prank · impersonation · disguise · fake · deception · vishing · harassment · anonymous · trace · callback · voicemail · area code
- unwanted callsrobocalls, telemarketers, telemarketing, cold callers, recorded messages
- phone scamsrobocall, robocalls, vishing, smishing, text scam
- Phreakingblue box, red box, Cap'n Crunch, Captain Crunch, phreaker
- scamsscam, scams, fraud, frauds, swindle
caller ID spoofingidentity verification
Confirming someone's claimed self
caller, spoofing, call, calls, called, calling, identification, identified, identifying