Spam Call Steeling Fido Number

[Cidercastle]

Hi there,

Today, i got a call back from  my friend for a spam call using my number.  I am really surprised of things happening like this. 

So concerned when this types of calls may lead to cheap bargaining and exploitation of people to get money.

Fido please safeguard our personal number from the hands of spammers and build our trust.

[Original_Lucy · Accepted solution]

Hi @Cidercastle , the spammers are relentless. Fido or any other carrier  cannot prevent the spammers from using our numbers, unfortunately. They use computers to robo call every series of existing numbers to call hoping we pick up. I was once called by my own number being spoofed. You could change settings to block unknown or private numbers and they will go directly to voice mail. However, if you're expecting a call from a private number you will not have it ring through and you will have to access it through vm or temporarily turn off the block on unknown numbers. It's an ongoing problem, just yesterday I had a string of spammed recording calls saying they were amazon. I don't know how to defeat them except for directing the calls to vm. 

[Cidercastle]

Yes yes, i had discussed with my friends too. These days no one is picking up calls from unknown numbers. The only thing i got concerned the most was how they be able to trace the particular number which i only had called the same day. This seems so unusual, most of the cases they appear as random numbers. 

I am worried, no one gona pickup if there is an emergency!