Telemarketer Uses Phone Number Spoofing
July 30, 2008
Apparently some telemarketers dare to ignore the National Do Not Call Registry. How do they do it? They are now spoofing their phone numbers. Then again, they’d still have to leave their contact numbers.
The last time I checked, a complete phone number in the United States consists of 10-digits (not including the “1”).
This one comes from (310) 649-574 and it’s all about carpet cleaning. The phone number is missing the last digit. If the phone number is any real, there are 10 possibilities for (310) 649-574x.
I’m assuming that they are using some phone number spoofing, I might be wrong though.
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Hey! I just got a call from them also! So damn annoying, isn’t it? I answered it and it was routed to some operator and she is like “May I help you?” I said “err.. you guys called me! You tell me!” and then she hang up on me. WTF?! Who the hell do business like this?! F**kin morons…
they are rude, they hang up, they don’t care. I’m gonna try a new tack with them: they can be sued for violating the telecommunications act by calling people on the govt donotcall list. they will hang up if you ask them anything about it, so … what I’m gonna do is play along with them — NOT giving them any creditcard information or anything like that — and let them get to the point of sending over a carpet cleaner person, or giving me a real address to send some payment to, whatever to get to the person/business who hired these slime to do their marketing, and THEN SUE THAT PERSON OR BUSINESS. They will claim it wasn’t them it was the evil telemarketers and I’ll say Who hired them to do it, pal?