Scam phone calls

[Thebibleofdave]

Hello Hive mind of mumsnet! We have all had a scam call i imagine, but this one takes the biscuit....

Received nearly 1000 calls/messages/whatapps today from people claiming they have had a missed call from me? What's this about?

AIBU to ask what the point of this is??? Bought a new sim card and have changed numbers today. But what is the point of this 'scam'? Thank you in advance for any input

You call back and rack up a bill!

Someone has spoofed your number, basically made it look like spam calls have come from you.

Just to add, you're not being scammed, but people think you are the scammer

You haven't been scammed, your numbers been spoofed

Thank you for replying everyone. What is the point of this though? I don't get the end goal?

Someone else (usually outside of the UK) has used your number to show as a caller display - Spoofing. Many people will not answer calls if they show from abroad but may be more inclined to answer a UK number. Some will pick up, the person calling hopes to catch one of them who will fall for their scam. Those that didn't pick up get a missed call and then message/ call the missed number to see if it was genuine. They are not scamming you per sey, someone is trying to scam them by pretending to be calling from a number that they are not. There are processing passing through to make this illegal/ not possible but it will take a short time to complete, in the meantime they'll use your number to spoof for a short time before they move onto another.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/spoofed-numbers-blocked-in-crackdown-on-scammers here is some info on the changes and why they are being made