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Originally Posted by Darcydog
We’ve had three phone calls - obviously from another part of the world entirely- saying they are from BT or Openreach and that they are contacting me to sort out a problem with my router.
Initially I just told them to bu99er off but today I wound them up by making out I was doing as they asked. They were not happy!!
Interesting that they are coming through on various U.K. numbers - one of them was 01725 area code that is very local to us.
Any tech guys on here able to shed light on how they are doing this?
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With a small amount of tech, you can 'spoof' a number to make it look like it's coming from somewhere else..... or they have a VOIP (Voice over IP) setup for each area code they want to have a go at.
It's the same with emails, a little bit of work by a tech-savvy bod, and you can make it look like the email is coming from someone else.