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Can someone tell me how the fuck this can happen?
Posted by:
Politburro
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Date: October 01, 2014 05:05PM
Sitting on the couch watching the TV. I have my caller ID tied into my Dish box. What pops up on the screen but my own name and phone mumber apparently calling me?
WTF?
WTF?
Re: Can someone tell me how the fuck this can happen?
Posted by:
Hate telemarketers
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Date: October 01, 2014 05:18PM
Telemarketer spoofing your number. Happens all the time.
Re: Can someone tell me how the fuck this can happen?
Posted by:
Snappy caws
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Date: October 01, 2014 05:24PM
dunno. never heard of that.
Re: Can someone tell me how the fuck this can happen?
Posted by:
nomorobo
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Date: October 01, 2014 05:24PM
Sign up for Obama's free telemarketing blocking service
https://www.nomorobo.com/
Works great for me. Rarely do any telemarketers get through. Phone rings once and the if it a telemarketer on the server block list it is then blocked.
Completely FREE service!
https://www.nomorobo.com/
Works great for me. Rarely do any telemarketers get through. Phone rings once and the if it a telemarketer on the server block list it is then blocked.
Completely FREE service!
Re: Can someone tell me how the fuck this can happen?
Posted by:
Politburro
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Date: October 01, 2014 05:25PM
I guess the do not call list is a thing of the past?
Never happened before, at least not that Ive seen on the screen.
Never happened before, at least not that Ive seen on the screen.
Re: Can someone tell me how the fuck this can happen?
Posted by:
2 cents
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Date: October 01, 2014 05:56PM
nomorobo Wrote:
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> Sign up for Obama's free telemarketing blocking
> service
>
> https://www.nomorobo.com/
>
> Works great for me. Rarely do any telemarketers
> get through. Phone rings once and the if it a
> telemarketer on the server block list it is then
> blocked.
>
> Completely FREE service!
Unfortunately, Verizon doesn't support nomorobo.
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> Sign up for Obama's free telemarketing blocking
> service
>
> https://www.nomorobo.com/
>
> Works great for me. Rarely do any telemarketers
> get through. Phone rings once and the if it a
> telemarketer on the server block list it is then
> blocked.
>
> Completely FREE service!
Unfortunately, Verizon doesn't support nomorobo.
Re: Can someone tell me how the fuck this can happen?
Posted by:
Greybeard
()
Date: October 01, 2014 08:04PM
Politburro Wrote:
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> I guess the do not call list is a thing of the
> past?
>
> Never happened before, at least not that Ive seen
> on the screen.
This seems to be a recent "innovation". We've been getting them close to our number--same area code and nxx, just the last 4 are different. Rachel or her equivalent.
The way CLID works, the number is what's transmitted: there's a database lookup done by the local exchange carrier (your provider, or near to it). That's why occasionally you'll get OUT OF AREA for a number that normally shows up: the database dip failed for some reason, but the number still made it through.
I bet Bell and Bell Northern (later Nortel, now dead) wish they'd made CLID non-fungible. Or maybe they weren't allowed to by regulations. Either way, SS7 and DMS-100 (the two main digital switches, last time I checked--likely different names and evolutionary versions now, but those were the names when they were developed) let CLID be sent by an ACD, rather than enforcing it a la ANI (the technology used by toll-free numbers).
Of course, at the time, VoIP wasn't even a gleam in anyone's eye; not clear what, say, Skype-to-landline would send for CLID if it couldn't fake it; all zeroes?
Meanwhile, the Do-Not-Call list is, alas, a joke.
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> I guess the do not call list is a thing of the
> past?
>
> Never happened before, at least not that Ive seen
> on the screen.
This seems to be a recent "innovation". We've been getting them close to our number--same area code and nxx, just the last 4 are different. Rachel or her equivalent.
The way CLID works, the number is what's transmitted: there's a database lookup done by the local exchange carrier (your provider, or near to it). That's why occasionally you'll get OUT OF AREA for a number that normally shows up: the database dip failed for some reason, but the number still made it through.
I bet Bell and Bell Northern (later Nortel, now dead) wish they'd made CLID non-fungible. Or maybe they weren't allowed to by regulations. Either way, SS7 and DMS-100 (the two main digital switches, last time I checked--likely different names and evolutionary versions now, but those were the names when they were developed) let CLID be sent by an ACD, rather than enforcing it a la ANI (the technology used by toll-free numbers).
Of course, at the time, VoIP wasn't even a gleam in anyone's eye; not clear what, say, Skype-to-landline would send for CLID if it couldn't fake it; all zeroes?
Meanwhile, the Do-Not-Call list is, alas, a joke.