It is messed up that number spoofing is legal in Canada for ridiculous reasons - clearly the telecom cartel here lobbied to make this legal and extract more money from Canadians. I had some friends (yeah, plural) who received threats because someone spoofed their numbers to rob old folks, and they had to ask help from the police. With me, the spoofing was not so severe, someone missed the scammers call and called me asking why I was calling them, soon we realized what happened, and I asked them to report the case (I also did it).
I noticed that when a number is not spoofed, it is provided by the same company: Iristel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iristel After getting a bunch of spams/scams today, I decided to use one of those services to reverse search. All, not spoofed, scams calls/sms I got this year came from that same company, while none of the legit calls came from them.
I hope there is a way to block this company numbers from reaching me. If not, at least I raise awareness.
I’ve had good luck answering and immediately putting it on mute until they disconnect. Once the bot reports a dead line enough, you tend to get removed, they can’t waste time with their scam. Don’t answer and talk, then you get put on more lists as an active number.
Answer as soon as you can, and mute your end until they disconnect.
You can also set your phone to only ring if the contact is in your contacts, otherwise straight to
jailvoicemail.I get more spam calls in one week than I get all year for legit calls. My voicemail is filled with spam!
Ironically, one of the spam callers spoofed a rogers number (833-430-9191) and won’t stop hounding me.
If you find a solution, please broadcast as a PSA 🙏
