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What Is Spoofing?
Spoofing is when a caller deliberately falsifies the information transmitted to your caller ID display to disguise their identity. Scammers often use neighbor spoofing so it appears that an incoming call is coming from a local number, or spoof a number from a company or a government agency that you may already know and trust. If you answer, they use scam scripts to try to steal your money or valuable personal information, which can be used in fraudulent activity.

Neighbor Spoofing "A New Kind of Phone Scam"
It’s the latest caller ID spoof strategy being used by phone scam artists in an attempt to get people to answer the phone. and it is Not only is neighbor spoofing legally questionable, but it’s also a massive threat to the security of your personal information. Neighbor spoofing uses auto-dialing and VoIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) services to send unsolicited phone calls. These calls have an outgoing Caller ID that closely matches your area code and phone number. By mimicking their caller ID as closely as possible to the phone number they are placing the call to, spammers can trick more of their targets into answering the phone. This strategy ultimately increases the odds spammers will successfully get victims to give up personal information scammers can use to steal.

FCC Chairman provides some tips
To help consumers confront illegal robocalls and maliciously spoofed calls. Unwanted calls are the top consumer complaint received by the FCC each year and the Chairman’s top consumer protection priority.

Caller ID spoofing is a crime "Under the Federal Truth in Caller ID Act of 2009"
On the off chance that you get a call that seems to originate from your very own name and phone number, you should make the accompanying strides:

A. Report the call to your telephone organization, which might have the option to offer considering highlights that square undesirable calls.

B. Report the call to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). These organizations have the position to implement government laws that control guest ID ridiculing, just as auto dialed and prerecorded message calls. The FCC can likewise force fines on people and substances that abuse those laws. You may contact these offices as pursues:

Federal Trade Commission

Bureau of Consumer Protection

600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW

Washington, DC 20580

(877) 382-4357

TTY: (866) 653-4261

www.consumer.ftc.gov

Federal Communications Commission

445 12th Street SW

Washington, D.C. 20554

(888) 225-5322

www.fcc.gov

C. Report the call to the Public Utilities Commission in your state. On the off chance that you live in Minnesota, the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) has authority over nearby telephone utilities like guest ID. The Minnesota Attorney General's Office recently requested that the PUC require telephone organizations that offer guest ID innovation to people in general to make a move to stop parodied calls, yet the PUC declined to do as such. It is significant that the PUC get notification from natives influenced by guest ID mocking. You may contact the PUC as pursues:

Minnesota Public Utilities Commission

121 Seventh Place East, Suite 350

St. Paul, MN 55101

(651) 296-0406 or (800) 657-3782

www.mn.gov/puc

D. On the off chance that you lost cash to a criminal trick, report the issue to your nearby police or region sheriff or the FBI. These offices have the power to research and arraign criminal issues.

For extra data, contact the Office of Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison as pursues:

Office of Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison

445 Minnesota Street, Suite 1400

St. Paul, MN 55101

(651) 296-3353 (Twin Cities Calling Area)

(800) 657-3787 (Outside the Twin Cities)

(800) 627-3529 (Minnesota Relay)