Fraud: Telephone Services
Commons · Question 73452 · Tabled 29 Aug 2025 · Home Office · Official record
Answered 10 Sep 2025
Question
Asked by Chris Coghlan
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
Answered by Dan Jarvis, 10 Sep 2025
‘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...