' The scammer may ask the grandparent ‘please don’t let mom and dad know,’ and may hand the phone over to someone posing as a lawyer seeking immediate payment,' the FCC said. —People are getting phone calls that say they’re from a family member. It even sounds like them. But the Federal Communications Commission is warning it could be a scam.
“Spoofing is when a caller deliberately falsifies the information transmitted to your caller ID display to disguise their identity,” the Federal Communications Commission states. “Scammers often use neighbour spoofing so it appears that an incoming call is coming from a local number, or spoof a number from a company or a government agency that you may already know and trust.
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