Why Can A Phone Number Ring Me After I Blocked It?

[Jack8991]

I was contacted yesterday by cryptocurrency scammers trying to get me to deposit £2,000 into a ‘trading account’ that they would control for me, ie, steal. The number that rang said United Kingdom (where I’m from) yet from their accents they were from Pakistan or a similar country. Anyway I declined their offer and blocked the number, yet today I have been rang three times by that same number even though it’s been blocked. Why is this and how can I stop it? Thanks

[bobbinwales]

Because there not really ringing from that number there just spoofing it??

[bobbinwales]

Someone posted similar a while ago tho and it sometimes takes some company's a bit longer to actually block them

[bookbinder]

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/phones-telecoms-and-internet/advice-for-consumers/scams/phone-spoof-scam

[Jack8991]

Bobbin - I don’t know how these things work with spoofing and scams lol. They were trying to get me to deposit £2000 into their trading account and the guy was saying he could make me lots of money from it. I said I didn’t want to and we said bye and ended the call but they’ve been ringing again even though I’ve blocked it

[Hopkirk]

How come you were on the phone long enough for them to try to scam you? If I receive a call like that, I cut them off without any conversation.

[bookbinder]

You've blocked a number that doesn't exist. The real number that they were ringing from has been masked by a fake UK number, and blocking that UK number won't get rid of scammers.

[bookbinder]

https://www.comparitech.com/blog/information-security/number-spoofing-scams/

[Jack8991]

Hopkirk- long story, basically there was an article published by the mirror talking about how holly willoughby (tv presenter) made profit from investing in Bitcoin. As the mirror is a legit newspaper I signed up to the Bitcoin system. When you do this you automatically get a call from what I later found to be scammers. At first I thought it was legit, but when I realised I was in a Pakistani call centre and they were trying to pressure me into giving £2000 (even though the article said £200 deposit) I knew it was fake so I declined their offer to which the guy started repeatedly asking me why, and I just ended the call

[Jack8991]

Bookbinder- thanks, that explains it well

[bookbinder]

You might be interested in this video:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-51753362

[barry1010]

Jack, you were scammed the moment you saw the Holly Willoughby article
https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/15020060/holly-willoughby-pics-fake-cryptocurrency-scam/

[Hopkirk]

Well done for realising and not getting drawn in.

[Jack8991]

Barry- why is the mirror allowing to publish these scams?

[fender62]

they use a system called voip, they can change there numbers to anything they like, and still ring you,
https://voipstudio.com/blog/combat-voip-spam/

[Tilly2]

Did you report it as spam when you blocked it?

[Jack8991]

Tilly- no how do I do that on iPhone?

[barry1010]

Jack, they make their money from advertising. Loads of 'celebs' have been used by scammers including Martin Lewis, Esther Rantzenand Richard Branson.

[fender62]

i have all foreign non uk numbers blocked on my landline and on my phone, if you relatives abroad, you can set them as safe numbers, rest blocked, i mean you know the numbers that phone you, doctors friends etc..rest can be blocked, i used to get at least one a day scam calls, all stopped, if someone you know cant get through if you blocked, you can unblock that number, ask them the number..if i dont recognise number i block it.

[THECORBYLOON]

There are many instances of UK celebs backing various items, schemes or currencies and UK programmes they have featured on.

They are all fake.

[Peter Pedant]

I had do you want to be rich -
no thank you I am rich enough as it is