Eli5: Why is it we still get dozens of calls a day from scammers? Don’t we have the tech to tell a spoof number and prevent it from coming through?

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Eli5: Why is it we still get dozens of calls a day from scammers? Don’t we have the tech to tell a spoof number and prevent it from coming through?

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Answer 1

Because spoofing a number has legit reasons. For example. A company could have thousands of employees and hundreds of phone lines. But sets, by the same technology that scammers use, so that all outgoing calls come from the company’s main number.