Is this a scam? Stranger has screenshot of call

[ElderMillennial]

Someone called me from an unknown mobile number and I answered. They asked who they were speaking to. I said they should know as they called me. They said they were calling me as they had a missed call from me earlier. I said no I hadn't called them. I said let's put it down to a misunderstanding.

Then they texted me a screenshot of my call to them but I definitely didn't call as I didn't even have my phone with me at that time (it was in another room, charging) and my phone doesn't show a call to that number.

AIBU to think this a scam? If it is, is it the person calling me or is it possible someone else has called them using my number?

Sounds like a scam. Ignore and block them is my advice

DH had an interaction like this except he didn’t get a screenshot after. Nothing came of it and if you had one as well, I’m guessing it was definitely a scam of some kind

It's not a scam. Someone trying to call them has spoofed your number.

Numbers can be spoofed, scammers use it all the time because most people block withheld numbers and obviously a scammer doesn't necessarily want to advertise their real number.

Just ignore any further contact from this person. They are probably innocent but best be on the safe side.

Don't respond sounds dodgy just block the number.

Someone is spoofing your number. I had this last year on multiple occasions. I just told people calling back to block my number. Reported it to EE (my carrier) they were useless and their only solution was to change my number!

I never answer calls from numbers I don’t recognise. If it’s important they’ll leave a voicemail or text and nine times out of ten it’s a scam.

This keeps happening to me lately! Two times! I have called them back and they said they never called me! I sent them a screenshot and said that they did and that’s why I called them back... I think people are stealing other peoples numbers to scam

Yes someone has used your number, not a scam but my sister had it with an ex partner where he called her from her own number.

It’s weird though cos I’ve had loads of missed calls of random Mobile numbers recently so probably the same thing but I don’t answer unless I know the number

I have been getting loads of scam phone calls recently, all from 'normal' mobile numbers rather than the usual withheld numbers. I'm assuming that all these numbers are innocent people's and have been spoofed.

Thanks everyone.

I do answer unknown numbers only because I was using my personal number for work calls at the start of the pandemic so I answer it in case it's for work.

If I don't know the number, I google it.

Funny - I had a call from an unknown mobile number this morning too, which is really unusual. I didn't answer it though.

They don’t always come up on google, all the ones Ive google nothing shows for it, I add it on WhatsApp but again no pics etc

@ElderMillennial

Someone called me from an unknown mobile number and I answered. They asked who they were speaking to. I said they should know as they called me. They said they were calling me as they had a missed call from me earlier. I said no I hadn't called them. I said let's put it down to a misunderstanding.

Then they texted me a screenshot of my call to them but I definitely didn't call as I didn't even have my phone with me at that time (it was in another room, charging) and my phone doesn't show a call to that number.

AIBU to think this a scam? If it is, is it the person calling me or is it possible someone else has called them using my number?

I work on the principle that everything's a scam, it almost cost me a free weekend to Berlin but I'm sure it's saved me much more!

I had a call from a puzzled sounding man last week. I am self employed so answered expecting an enquiry. He said "Who is this?" I repeated my company name. He asked me why I had called him and I laughed, he had called me. He said he had missed a call from me.

After a bit of to'ing and fro'ing it turned out that my number had called him a few times and he wondered who I was. We worked out that it was probably a scam and my number was being 'spoofed' and working out that he wouldn't ever need to hire me, he blocked me!

I have no idea if it is happening anywhere else or how to stop it if it is!

This happens to me too. They are not scamming you, someone is trying to scam them using your number as a cover.

The real scammers clone people’s numbers, so it genuinely will look like they had a call from you! It’s not them who’s doing the scam, if that makes sense.

I’ve had this happen where it was the first half of my own number and second half was all different combos (eg 0123 456 / 0123 789 / 0123 678 etc) Everyone I rang was baffled as they had not rang me. 🤣🤣

It's called spoofing - google it.

It happened to me. I was getting loads of people text me like 'who are u, why did you call me?' But it wasn't me calling them.

It stopped after a few days but was so annoying as some people were getting really annoyed at me.

This explains a lot! I had a missed call from a mobile last week and returned the call as I was actually expecting a call from someone and thought it must be them. A very annoyed man who had obviously been woken by my call answered and insisted he hadn’t rang me. I apologised - then blocked the number.

It wouldnt surprise me that this isnt a way to get important information out of you. If they can put a name to a phone number, by asking you, and maybe other information, they could be 'mining' you. Thats where scammers look online etc to get as much info on a person before the final big scam. They could also sell your number now it is linked to a person on the dark web.

@JoshJoshJosh

Someone is spoofing your number. I had this last year on multiple occasions. I just told people calling back to block my number. Reported it to EE (my carrier) they were useless and their only solution was to change my number!

EE can't do anything about it. It's not them spoofing your number and unlikely to be a customer of theirs doing it.

As an example of how easy it is to do, pay £2 per month to Skype and you can make calls from your computer (or phone or iPad or whatever) to someone's landline or mobile and have whatever number you like appear on their screen when you do it.

The person you called isn't scamming you.

The scammers spoofed your number and tried to scam them. It's pretty common and I wouldn't worry about it.

This is a new scam. The scammers are somehow cloning your number to phone people. I don't know the reason behind it though. Recently I had a call from a number identical to mine bar one digit and I've heard that's also a scam.