Has anyone on Fluther received a call from your own phone number recently?

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Report it to authorities. Don’t leave it up to your phone company to do that. I have not had that happen, but I’m glad for the heads up. Thankyou. I have had lots of spam callers, but not presenting my own phone number.

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