# Spoofed phone numbers, and now names? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 2, 2020, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoofed-phone-numbers-and-now-names/914115 "2020-07-02T23:43:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 5
**Author:** ![erysichthon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d07c76/32.png) [@erysichthon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erysichthon)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2020, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoofed-phone-numbers-and-now-names/914115/5 "2020-07-03T03:27:26Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > But lately these calls have been accompanied by what look like real names. So I’m wondering if they are spoofing so many numbers that some of them come associated with names, or are they somehow adding names to their spoofed numbers, or are they specifically selecting real phone numbers used by other land line subscribers to spoof with? A few years ago, I Googled the number of a spam call and stumbled onto something called “[Hodges Directory](https://hodges-directory.us/),” which appears to be a database of fake phone numbers accompanied by fake names and addresses. [I posted about it here](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-heck-is-hodges-directory/779038). People are probably more inclined to answer a call if the caller ID information has a name, so apparently somebody cooked up a lot of fake names for spammers to use. Many of the names are peculiar. For example, the Hodges listing for Foosland, Illinois (a real town with a population of 101) includes Molzen Molzen, Aaron Pedowitz, Tylyn Blaylock, and Ozzie Abalde. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoofed-phone-numbers-and-now-names/914115)._