I have a very unique phone number (yes, I know they're all unique!) from my days working the mobile phone industry.
The last couple of weeks I've been getting an increasing amount of messages from people asking "Who is this?" "What do you want?" etc - all from people numbers I've never text or dialled in my life.
It seems there is some marketing company spoofing my number so that when they call people with their auto dialler it appears the call is from me. This is starting to be a massive pain in the balls, as I'm getting up to 50 messages a day now asking me who I am, or telling me to go procreate alone.
I've phoned the network, and their suggestion was to change my number. Given I've had the number for around 8 years and it would probably sell for a decent sum of money if I decided to sell it, I'm not pleased with that as a suggestion. Some Google browsing has revealed that it is indeed against the law for a company to spoof numbers, and there is a whole heap of information out there for what to do if you think you have been called from a number that has been spoofed. Unfortunately, there is absolutely nothing to tell what you can do if your number is the one that is being spoofed.
Its a long shot... but has anybody run into this before or have advice for what I can do?
The last couple of weeks I've been getting an increasing amount of messages from people asking "Who is this?" "What do you want?" etc - all from people numbers I've never text or dialled in my life.
It seems there is some marketing company spoofing my number so that when they call people with their auto dialler it appears the call is from me. This is starting to be a massive pain in the balls, as I'm getting up to 50 messages a day now asking me who I am, or telling me to go procreate alone.
I've phoned the network, and their suggestion was to change my number. Given I've had the number for around 8 years and it would probably sell for a decent sum of money if I decided to sell it, I'm not pleased with that as a suggestion. Some Google browsing has revealed that it is indeed against the law for a company to spoof numbers, and there is a whole heap of information out there for what to do if you think you have been called from a number that has been spoofed. Unfortunately, there is absolutely nothing to tell what you can do if your number is the one that is being spoofed.
Its a long shot... but has anybody run into this before or have advice for what I can do?