We never recommend giving any information on your invoice or allowing someone you do not know to have a copy or take a photo of your invoice. Close the mailbox and destroy your bills and other important documents before tracing a spoofed phone number throwing them away. Be very careful about the amount of personal information you share on social networking sites. Scammers can use your information and images to create a false identity or to attack you with a scam.

Telephone identity settlement can be legally used by companies and individuals. For example, a lawyer may want to forge your office phone number by making a business call to a customer from your personal smartphone after business hours. Unfortunately, this feature is often abused by phone scammers who use it to hide their actual phone number and replace it with one that is geographically closer to the people they target.

Due to its widespread use and the fact that it is a relatively simple system to install and run, it makes sense that so many people and businesses have adopted it. It offers lower costs than traditional telephone operators with greater functionality. VoIP providers also offer other features not available in standard telephone services. For example, some services may help you create a different phone number, which means you don’t need a landline, another mobile phone or even a SIM card for your business calls. This is really useful for some consumers, but it also provides VoIP services open to scammers to take advantage of.

Despite the sophisticated smartphones, automatic calls and automated marketing calls remain a major phone scam that continues today. An automatic call is when you answer your phone and it is a busy message instead of someone living at the other end. These scammers can be very creative and there is a wide range of unique phone scams designed to take your money and there are some different tactics that they use to look more legitimate.

As the prevalence of social media scams increases, you need to know what to look for. People who repeatedly target imitation fraud on phone numbers may want to contact their phone providers to change their phone number. Some operators, such as Verizon Mobile and ATT, allow customers to choose a new number online for free. Customers can simply log in to their provider application and change their mobile number.