How Do Scammers Call You With Your Own Phone Number?

MINNEAPOLIS (CBS Local) — Have you ever gotten a phone call from your own number? Or one that was just a few digits off? It’s the latest illegal scam to get you to answer your phone – neighborhood spoofing.
The calls had Jeanne from Hastings and Sandy from Willmar wanting to know: How do they even do that?
“In order to understand spoofing, it’s important to understand the phone network isn’t a single network,” says Chris Schulte, a cybersecurity expert a