When a scammer calls you, they likely bought your number<div class="feat-image">
</div><p>The Department of Homeland Security recently said that Chinese criminal gangs have made more than $1 billion from <a href="
https://bit.ly/47nn5Va" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener sponsored nofollow">scams directed at US phone numbers[/url].</p>
<p>While phone-based scams once relied on random number dialing, the disturbing truth these days is that they most likely bought your phone number and more from one of the hundreds of data brokers eager to sell your personal data for profit … </p>
<a data-layer-pagetype="post" data-layer-postcategory="" data-layer-viewtype="unknown" data-post-id="1022870" href="
https://9to5mac.com/2025/10/22/when-a-scammer-calls-you-they-likely-bought-your-number/#more-1022870" class="more-link">moreâ
When a scammer calls you, they likely bought your number
