000-012-3456

Call from this number at 6:59pm on Decmber 7th, 2007.  Nothing said on the other end. First time call from this number

Call from "Unknown Name" at 2:30 pm Sunday Dec 9th from 000-012-3456 (a "Skype" generated random number?}.  Just silence, then "off line"(?) signal like a "quick busy" signal.  This was shortly after I was rude to a "commercial" caller earlier, so I was wondering if there is a website where someone can post a phone number (like mine) and have a "Skype" call generated to harass me like this.

This was first time I've had such a call and the first time I was rude to a "commercial" caller or "telemarketer".  Coincidence?????

Then, I did a websearch on "Marvin Fine" who was reported on this site's 416-665-1377 nuisance phone number pages as the owner of Toronto Voice Telecom and originator of the nuisance calls from 416-665-1377.

Surprisingly, I found that he says our own Canadian Government had paid for the research for his company to generate a "simultaneous" computer dialed marketing calling system.  He has previously been convicted of misleading advertising through the courts in Canada among other things dealing with marketing and advertising.  Check this through a "Google" search.

This came from a "Google" search on "Marvin Fine":

Marvin Fine and DFD Telebroadcasting Inc. On October 3, 1996, Mr. Marvin Fine and DFD Telebroadcasting Inc. each pleaded guilty in the Ontario Court of Justice (General Division) in Toronto, Ontario, to two counts of misleading advertising under paragraph 52(1)(a) of the Competition Act.
Mr. Fine and DFD were each fined $11,000 per count for a total fine of $44,000, which was paid immediately following Mr. Fine's conviction. In addition, Mr. Fine agreed to donate two telephone systems to registered charities. A prohibition order under subsection 34(1) of the Act was also entered against Mr. Fine and DFD, and Mr. Fine was placed on a two-year probation period. The charges to which Mr. Fine and DFD pleaded guilty concerned advertisements that Mr. Fine had placed in several issues of the Toronto and Hamilton editions of the TV Guide between June 6 and July 11, 1992, and in The Employment News between April 5 and July 5, 1992, in which job opportunities were advertised to the public. These ads invited the reader to call a "976" telephone number in order to obtain additional details about these jobs. There was a $10 charge for phoning the "976" number and the amount of this charge was inadequately disclosed to the reader.

also:

TORONTO VOICE TELECOM LTD.(416) 995-4308 ELECTRONIC TELEMARKETING INTRODUCTION

Hi, my name is Marvin Fine, and I am the president of Toronto Voice Telecom Ltd. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak with you today. Since 1988, our firm has been actively involved in one business only, and that is lead generation. As a computer scientist, I realized long ago that every sales organization needed leads and I was determined to develop a product specifically for the sales industry as none existed at that time. As a result, I embarked on a research project spanning over 22 years focused on developing the most cost effective system to generate leads.

I was greatly assisted by the Canadian government which gave us tax credits and refunds totaling some two million dollars. These benefits were extended to us after undergoing very rigorous auditing by government appointed computer scientists and professors which accepted our project as valid research.

We now have one of the largest service bureaus in the world with enough equipment on hand to place 3,500 simultaneous telephone calls.

The day will come.....sooner or later....when I'll find out where this number originated. What shall I do? Hmmmm......I think I'll pay whatever expense necessary and fly out to where they are and shoot somebody. Yes indeed. My mind is made up now.

Have received several calls from this number in the past few days - no one is there, ever.

Telemarketer for credit service

I have also received several calls from this number and they do not leave a message. I am so sick and tired of these calls. There must be some way in which someone can stop these calls.

Okay, seriously. Is there nothing we can do about this? File multiple complaints with Skype, perhaps?

I recieved this phone call this morning as well. I answered the phone but there was silence on the other end. I waited for about a minute, still silence, so I hit 0 key about 20 times and then hung up. They have not called back so far, and I'm hoping they will leave me alone.

From what I have read on here, this is obviously a huge nuisance, to say the least, and there has to be something we can do. I went on to www.skype.com under "contact us - Press Inquiries" and gave them a link to this website. Hopefully they will wake the f*ck up and do something about this stupidity.

OKay bye!

Once a week I get a call from this #.  I answer and there is no one there.  It concerns me because my mother is traveling and using Skype to keep in touch and every time this # comes up I think it's her.

silence

Calls started about 9:15PM PST time on 1/4/08.  Two males on line, sounded like they were responding to a Craigslist ad.  When questioned, they said line was crossed and would call back, which they did with different story, wanted to make a reservation.  When going to call police mentioned begged me not to as caller was mentally retarded and wasn't supposed to be on phone.  Hung up and they called back asking to speak to my wife about her vibrator.  Since then called several times, about every 10 minutes and we simply hung up.

If anyone is looking to get together to take action, please post details.

I get calls from this number ALL the time.  In fact I usually get calls from this number once or twice a week.  It's always a recorded message offering U.S. credit cards or vacations.  As soon as I hear the recorded message I hang up.  These people never stop calling.  

I know from the number this call is from a Skype member.  So I'm going to complain to Skype.  I just phoned my local phone company Rogers... but as usual, they don't want to do anything.  Why should any phone company want to stop this?  They make money from this.  Tele-marketers make long distance calls (money for the phone companies), and if you try to change your number (they make another fee).  So why should they want to stop this???  

Perhaps if we published the phone numbers of every member of Parliament with these tele-marketers, the government would do something to stop it.

I went to Skype's web site and I filled in the form to register harassing phone calls.  http://support.skype.com/index.php?_a=tickets&_m=submit

See below to see the text of my message.  

EVERYONE SHOULD START COMPLAINING TO SKYPE SO THAT THEY MAY STOP THIS CALLER FROM BOTHERING EVERYONE IN NORTH AMERICAN THAT HAS A PHONE!


"I... as well as thousands of other phone numbers are constantly being abused by a Skype member that shows up as 000-012-3456 on my (non-Skpe home phone).  I live in Toronto Canada and two to three time a week I receive calls from this phone number.  A recording comes on and it offers home loans and Bloomingdale credit cards.  Sometimes I get calls for vacations.  It is illegal for American firms (not licensed to operate in Canada) to offer credit cards or loans to Canadians.  Bloomingdales doesn't have any stores in Canada... so they are not licensed to offer credit cards to Canadians.  This Skype member that is blitzkrieging every phone in North America is going too far, and it has to stop.

To show you just how bad this Skype user is... go to this web site, and see just how many North American's are complaining about this Skype member calling them all the time!  http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-000-012-3456

I'm asking Skype to PLEASE BLOCK THIS PERSON OR CRIMINAL ORGANIZATION FROM CALLING EVERY PHONE IN NORTH AMERICA!  PLEASE!  I'M SICK AND TIRED OF THESE CALLS!"

I get a call from this # maybe once a week but I never answer. It is very annoying especially concidering I just got a new unlisted # to stop this crap.

Southern Ontario

Same as others, a telemarketing recording from this number.

Have complained to Skype (thanks itunesbrian for doing the footwork on that) and add this text they have on the subsequent (submission) page.

"Can I lose my number? Can it be taken away?
Yes, you can lose your number if you do not follow the SkypeIn terms of service mentioned during the purchase process. Unfortunately, if you don't use your number as per the policy and in some cases at a minimum usage level, then the carrier takes it away"

Will post any response from Skype.

Got one from this number today. The last question - about whether this call was a Skype user abusing the system or just Skype themselves - led me to look closely at the Skype website. The telltale sign there (other than that Skype is now owned by the Goliath eBay Inc.) is that the ONLY ways they permit outsiders to contact them is via a submitted web contact form. In other words they do not feel compelled to make an actual physical address or telephone numbers available for inquiries. Truly, that is the mark of a SCUMMY company if there ever was one. I will be using my excellent "Phone Tray" product (free and great, look it up on google!) to block out this and any other Skype-based numbers. If my friends try to call me via Skype? Too bad for them I guess...

Didn't answer it, but I thought What A wierd phone#. It sounds made up especially with the 0123456. Just plain strange

phone rang and it was the number so i answered it and then hung up, how do i stop these f***in people from callin my house

This number called so many time but nobody was there when we picked up the phone.