The article is about robocalls that use numbers of people in your phone's address book to get around our understandable refusal to answer if we don't recognize the originating number.
Using my friends' and family's numbers would indeed be a heinous step up from the often badly chosen fake numbers used by the useless parasites of the world today.
But your own number? That's a different story.
The article's writer picked up the call out of sheer curiosity. What was she expecting, that her phone was calling to see how she was? Of course it was a scammer.
The easiest fake call to spot is the one that purports to come from your own number.
Now, the geniuses who pursue this line of moneymaking haven't all figured this out: at least one of them has tried it on me. The attempt was amusing, I'll admit. Yet even the dimmest bulb will eventually realize what a stupid tactic it is.
In the long run, better gear up for your "friends" and "family" to be threatening you with jail for unpaid taxes that can conveniently be paid off with prepaid debit cards.
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