With more and more people starting to ignore calls from unfamiliar numbers and sending them to voicemail automatically, it has made pulling off a classic prank call trickier.

They use it to actually scam others by faking the number so the recipient thinks it is someone local, or a person or business they know.

They attempt to confirm or investigate a “potential” scam call.

They investigate a number they are curious about.

They call a debt collector with a spoofed number to avoid repeated calls in the future.

They want to reserve their actual phone number for their close family and friends while using a secondary number for “social media” friends and other parties.

They want a secondary number captured by recipients.

They protect their privacy and phone information from being captured and sold to third parties.

They perform a classic prank call to their neighbor or friend.

People spoof caller ID numbers for a wide variety of reasons.

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