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Originally posted by Cynic
I received two calls yesterday at exactly the same time on my cell and home numbers. I didn't answer but the call display read :+1-999-999-9999. I googled it to no avail. Creepy!
Originally posted by ZeroReady
The number was 202-033-7865. Washington DC area code. When I answered I heard an unusual click sound then static then it disconnected. I tried calling back and it said the number was no longer in service.
Googled the number and only a few pages came up, odd since normally telemarketer numbers have lots of search results on google. The top page in the results whocallsme.com... has one person who reported getting a call from this number 2.5 hours before I did.
I had a long phone conversation with an old friend of mine yesterday and we were talking about all kinds of conspiracy stuff, like we usually do. I'm sure we dropped plenty of flag words.
I'm not saying the NSA is calling me, but this call made me a little uncomfortable.
Anyone else ever get a weird call from DC?edit on 14-3-2013 by ZeroReady because: typo
Originally posted by MysterX
Originally posted by ZeroReady
The number was 202-033-7865. Washington DC area code. When I answered I heard an unusual click sound then static then it disconnected. I tried calling back and it said the number was no longer in service.
Googled the number and only a few pages came up, odd since normally telemarketer numbers have lots of search results on google. The top page in the results whocallsme.com... has one person who reported getting a call from this number 2.5 hours before I did.
I had a long phone conversation with an old friend of mine yesterday and we were talking about all kinds of conspiracy stuff, like we usually do. I'm sure we dropped plenty of flag words.
I'm not saying the NSA is calling me, but this call made me a little uncomfortable.
Anyone else ever get a weird call from DC?edit on 14-3-2013 by ZeroReady because: typo
I reprogrammed and rerouted entire telephone exchanges once upon a time, tens of thousands of lines.
Sometimes this is just random dialing by exchange staff or engineers.
Between you and me, sometimes, just sometimes an engineer would hook onto your line pair somewhere along the line from the switching system to your home with a test tele, and make long distance calls somewhere...i'd check your bill carefully if i were you...any expensive calls matches to Alaska or Nigeria or somewhere from the time of your weird call, and Bob's your uncle.
Originally posted by ZeroReady
The number was 202-033-7865. Washington DC area code. When I answered I heard an unusual click sound then static then it disconnected. I tried calling back and it said the number was no longer in service.
Originally posted by lee anoma
Originally posted by ZeroReady
The number was 202-033-7865. Washington DC area code. When I answered I heard an unusual click sound then static then it disconnected. I tried calling back and it said the number was no longer in service.
Automatic dialing machine.
It's either a debt collector or a telemarketer.
The machine is set to dial but sometimes no one is there to speak to you because the operators are out so the machine hangs up. Trying to call back won't get you through, either.
I've had this happen before and one time the number appeared on my caller ID and I picked it up but this time there was an operator. She explained the situation with the machine doing that some times by accident.
I wouldn't worry.
- Lee
Originally posted by sheepslayer247
I did a quick look and it seems to be a wireless number.
That's all I could find, but often times these types of numbers are from debt collectors or salespeople. They use generic numbers so that you don't know exactly who is calling. The reason they hung up is because the call was made along with a 100 others and one of the other numbers answered first......dropping the other dialed lines. Of course, a computer made the call.
Does that make sense?
edit on 14-3-2013 by sheepslayer247 because: (no reason given)edit on 14-3-2013 by sheepslayer247 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by 0zzymand0s
A couple of things: Telemarketers are not magically indexed for all of their annoyance calls at once. The files at the reverse telephobe www pages are updated over time, from 1 entry up to thousands. Maybe this is a new collection / telemarketing number?
Also: Inserting a 10 digit string of digits that corresponds to an actual telephone number is a courtesy, and lots of places insert a nonsense of disconnected number, to force you to use a specific 8YY number when dialing them back, to route your returned calls through a switchboard, and so on.
Similarly - the DNIS digits might come across with a west coast call back number, even if the incoming call was made from the east coast. They can be all 1 number. They can be less than 10 digits long (5 or 6 is common for call centers and telephones behind a switchboard). The caller ID information you receive on your handset is variable, does not guarantee source and can be spoofed.edit on 20-3-2013 by 0zzymand0s because: (no reason given)