Phone numbers held hostage
Phone numbers held hostage
Thomas and Manda Porter run a home business specializing in photography and web design, not telemarketing scams.
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- Jason
- - November 20th, 2009 at 05:33:57
Every time those free cruise nitwits phone me the call display reads all zeros or 123456789. It's disgusting that they would be able to spoof someone's actual number on their annoying calls.
I think that it's ridiculous that it would take five successful call traces for SaskTel to trace the number. It's the equivalent of throwing up their hands and saying Oh well, there's nothing we can do .
Sorry SaskTel, we're paying you the big bucks so you'd better figure out a way to make it happen. -
- hmmm
- - November 19th, 2009 at 19:38:38
This is a new one, ya I am tired of these calls also, and there is no way you can block them, because they are either the 000-000-0000 or some other bogus number. How convenient they will phone when you are just sitting down for your evening meal. We got one such call one evening as we were preparing a meal, an actually live person called and wanted to talk to the man of the house, I asked in what regards and she said, we are doing a survey on communications, I told her, please hold, put the phone down, continued with preparing of our meal. About 5 minutes later, I went to the phone, asked if she was still there, she said yes, I told her, please hold, and continued with preparing the meal. Lo and behold, she hung up after 10 minutes of listening to us talking, laughing, dog barking and kids squeeling. I have done this a couple of times, others I hang up and I guess its different for people who have home businesses. I hope that Sasktel has a better way of monitoring telemarketers, because obviously as consumers we cannot block bogus numbers.
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- Amanda
- - November 19th, 2009 at 18:37:30
Everybody needs to be aware of an easily downloadable computer program called Skype, which allows any computer owner to use their internet connection as a telephone line. Additionally, Skype offers you the added bonus of entering whatever phone number and name you'd like to show up on the caller display.
Be aware - do not believe everything you read on your call display.
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- Jerseygirl
- - November 19th, 2009 at 01:10:41
You go Manda!!
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- Manda
- - November 18th, 2009 at 16:15:35
Since this story was published, and the return calls have slowed down, I have had a chance to research this a bit more - in a space of about 3 minutes, I stumbled upon the term caller ID spoofing . If you type this phrase in to Google, it returns 126,000 results. Apparently, although technically it is illegal for telemarketers to use Caller ID Spoof, anyone else can buy a PIN number and change their caller ID display to anything they like. It's meant to be a type of practical joke, apparently.
Funny, though, that SaskTel says their security team still is not quite sure how they're doing it , since this seems to be a very common and easily obtainable method.
Hmmm. Still pretty ticked off here - yesterday I got somewhere between 17 and 23 calls - that I picked up. Today only 4 or 5 so far, but who knows how many people aren't calling back?
I realize that there really is little to nothing SaskTel can realistically do about this, but it seems to me that they should have at least been aware of Caller ID Spoofing . CIDS, as its called, is not new, nor is it difficult to find out information on it.
