

Reporting on the findings, Liverpool Echo said that Ofcom recently strengthened its rules and guidance to require telephone networks involved in transmitting calls - either to mobiles or landlines - to identify and block spoofed calls, where technically feasible, making it harder for scammers to use spoofed numbers.


A previous Which? survey among fraud victims found that of those who were initially approached by either phone or text, two-thirds (68%) said the incident involved number spoofing. The not-for-profit group said that at least one phone number from HSBC, Lloyds Bank, Santander, TSB, Nationwide Building Society and Virgin Money was successfully spoofed.
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READ MORE: Pizza delivery driver attacked boss after following him home Firms' numbers were chosen if they were the ones printed on the back of debit cards or listed as fraud helplines on their websites. To test how effective banks were at protecting their customers, consumer champion Which? made calls to a test phone, spoofing the prominent numbers of 14 current account providers.
