I received a call today that my phone said was suspected spam, so was immediately on alert. The call was from 01706 number from Rochdale, but had a south Asian accent, claiming to be from EE. Was hard to understand what he was saying, but it had something to do with EE and BT's merger and how they had received complaints from customers about a fall in signal quality, and so were upgrading customers' SIM cards to improve the quality (I think; again, hard to understand). Hadn't asked me for any details yet other than confirming the last three digits of my phone number, which he clearly already had since he called me. But what spooked me a bit was when I said this was identified as suspected spam call and I still didn't understand the purpose of the call, he said he'd send a text with a code to confirm it was from EE, and indeed I immediately received a text from the same number that I othewise get notifications from EE on, such as when you add a roaming package or whatnot when abroad. So the fact that it came from that same exact number made me question my suspicion -- yet a minute later, when I still wasn't going along with what he was saying or still questioning the purpose of the call, he abruptly ended the call, which made me sure it was a scam call. But how were they able to spoof the text from EE?? It had very similar/same language as prior ones: "Hi from EE. Be alert to fraud - if you didn't ask for this, don't share it, please call us on 0330 123 1105. Your code is ****. Thanks." Anyone know how they can spoof the EE fraud check text?
