Written Question·Home Office·UIN 73452
Fraud: Telephone Services
Tabled: 29 August 2025
Answered: 10 September 2025
Question
Chris Coghlan
Liberal Democrat — Dorking and Horley
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress Ofcom has made on reducing the number of spoofed phone numbers being used by (a) spammers and (b) scammers.
Answer
Dan Jarvis‘Spoofing’ is a common technique used by fraudsters and spam callers to disguise their telephone numbers and pretend to be someone else, such as a bank or another person.Ofcom have already strengthened activity against ‘spoofed’ calls. New rules were intr...
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