You’re sitting quietly, relaxing before moving on to the next task today when suddenly the phone rings. Luckily you have Caller ID. You look at the name – Des Moines IA. You think to yourself, “I don’t know anyone from Des Moines” and decide to ignore the call knowing it’s most likely a Telemarketer.

A lot of Telemarketers will employ ‘Caller ID Spoofing’ in order to entice you into picking up the phone. They studied how the curiosity of people would make them actually answer a call from someone they don’t know. For example, did you ever get a call from someone in your own town only to be met with silence on the other end? That was a Phishing call. They spoofed the Caller ID in an attempt to find the best time to reach you before moving the call over to a live person intent on separating you from your cash.

But I’ve noticed something going through life… people will do the same thing, Spoof Life ID. They enter your life as someone and after a time they become someone else. They were applying a Life Spoof in order to gain your trust or connect with you for some purpose. Then later when they believe they have you, they become the real person behind the illusion. By then they may have more information about you than you care for them to have. Those are the most difficult relationships to extract yourself from.

But there is a way. Be aware where you are meeting another person and why they may be there in the first place. Also consider your motives why you are in that very same place. Become true to yourself and allow a bit of time to become aware of others. We have all been burned by getting involved with another who wasn’t in our best interest. Use those experiences as a gauge going forward, not to withdraw and become suspicious of anyone who passes through your life but to use those experiences as a scale to measure your action or reaction when meeting a person for the first time.

Trust you to be able to take just a moment to check in with you and begin to trust your own feelings. As we do this our abilities will become even better on detecting someone spoofing Life ID. You will finally feel confident in knowing who to answer and who to ignore.