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Call spoofing, which refers to the process of changing the caller ID to any number other than the actual calling number, is a tactic that has lately been on the rise.
Ashburton is a town on the south-southeastern edge of Dartmoor in Devon, England, adjacent to the A38. The town is 20 miles northeast of Plymouth and 17 miles southwest of Exeter. It was formerly important as a stannary town, and remains the largest town within the national park, with a population of around 3,800, increasing to 4,170 in 2011. Ashburton has five pubs within the centre of town and five restaurants/cafés. The town is also part of the... Show more electoral ward named Ashburton and Buckfastleigh, the population of which at the 2011 census was 7,718.
Call spoofing, which refers to the process of changing the caller ID to any number other than the actual calling number, is a tactic that has lately been on the rise.
I groggily answered the ringing phone at 6am, and was alarmed to hear an official-sounding robotic voice. “This is the alert system with Visa (or Mastercard) account services!” It went on to tell me that there were two suspicious charges to my Visa card.
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