{"id":7208,"date":"2022-04-29T10:28:39","date_gmt":"2022-04-29T10:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/preferhome.com\/terminate-robocall-from-your-life\/"},"modified":"2022-04-29T10:28:39","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T10:28:39","slug":"terminate-robocall-from-your-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preferhome.com\/locations\/blog\/terminate-robocall-from-your-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Terminate Robocall From Your Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cDo not hang up, this is an urgent call.\u201d How many times have you have heard some version of this phone greeting in the last year alone? More importantly, how many of those came in a pre-recorded, robocall?<\/p>\n

In recent years, robocalls \u2013those pre-recorded messages delivered by a computerized auto-dialer \u2013 have been front and center in phone-based scams. Thousands of unsuspecting people have been tricked into sharing sensitive personal and financial information.<\/p>\n

To make matters worse, there is a newer, more potent version of this scam and it uses a technique known as neighbor spoofing.<\/p>\n

Broadly speaking, spoofing is when a caller deliberately falsifies the information transmitted to your caller ID display to disguise their identity, according to the Federal Communications Commission<\/a> (FCC). Neighbor spoofing is when the ID spoof \u201cdisplays a phone number similar to your own on your caller ID, to increase the likelihood that you will answer the call.\u201d<\/p>\n

And it is true, people are more likely to pick up a call if it\u2019s a local number, even when you don\u2019t necessarily recognize it.<\/p>\n

So, what are you supposed to do? You can always throw your phone out the window and sever all phone communications forever — or you can start incorporating some of the following tips and guidelines promoted by the FCC.<\/p>\n

Tips to avoid robocall neighbor ID spoofing\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n