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You can report scammers to the FTC using your number and the time of the call, as well as their number, name, and any additional information:
https://www.donotcall.gov/report.html#step1
I highly recommend this because, believe it or not, these scammers do get caught. The sooner the better, they can do irreparable harm in the meantime to people more vulnerable than you.
Pretty sure this is made up.
Also that URL they linked isn't even a valid link
Also no scammer would not take the opportunity to scam more people.
Yeah becareful about 2. I have gotten at least 3 angry phone calls now from people I don't know telling me to stop calling them when it wasn't me :/
I once had a spam caller call with my own number spoofed. Awkward.
Did you post your number on Craigslist?
And did you then call yourself to say “go fuck yourself!”?
That's how you could get to voicemail with no pin. Phone companies had/have the crappiest security.
That's hilarious
if they only tried to scam one person
Sure, but that's unlikely. Scamming is a numbers game.
programmer detective brain ><
As I like a good scammer scamming, they use spoofing technique to masked their real numbers. So don’t do that
Aren't those numbers typically just from servers rather than an actual SIM card in a physical phone?
They are from SIM card farms. 
Usually they are just spoofed, and the real owner of the number is innocent.
Nature is beautiful
Really makes you proud to be living in the golden age.
Jesus Christ, how horrifying.
First day on the internet? stay pure
Wait till you see the crypto mining setups
Not to forget the like-farms.
TIL
I'm not one who worries about RF and my health, but I'm not too sure I'd hang around that setup very long
NSFW warning
There isn't a person sitting on a phone sending thousands of texts. These are spoofed numbers. There is no human on the other end whose phone will get inundated with calls if you post their number online.
It’s a damn shame too. Lazy/greedy ass phone companies couldn’t care less either. They even monopolize it by having add-on services to block spam. Fucking vultures. Both the phone companies and scammers.
Scam calls and texts always use call ID spoofing. Blocking them would be easy if they used their actual number.
again, an instance of funny proves tech illiteracy and boundless idiocy
Great idea