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Telemarketers spoof local area codes to trick human targets

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Because nobody ever answers a call from a strange toll-free number. Call centers explicitly manipulate caller ID technology to perfectly mirror your own neighborhood's digits, leveraging basic human curiosity to bypass your mental spam filter.

Telemarketers spoof local area codes to trick human targets
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