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100%, but we have been expecting calls, and these have been coming in appearing from "local" phone numbers.
It's infuriating.
But if I do get a scam call, I will tag it so the next time that same number calls, we know. Unfortunately, they change their numbers so often, that it's impossible to know.
Previously, they used to always call with an easily identifiable scam number, like "V23426232425", and we'd ignore those (although, they'd fill our voicemail up pretty quickly).
With texts, I ignore and block the numbers.
This is why when I moved I kept my old phone number with the old area code. Since I know only a handful of people still in that area code and have them in my phone, when I get a call with that area code I immediately know it's a scammer trying to make it look like a local call. The fact that caller id can still be spoofed at this day and age is absolutely mindblowing to my little brain. I remember in the 80's when caller id came out, and here we sit with a 40+ year old bug in the system....