000-012-3456

several calls from this number, when I answer no one is there, or if I don't answer and the answering machine picks up, they hang up

Picked up the phone silence, didn't hang up for almost a full minute.

I have been getting prank calls from this # and I want to press charges but I dont know how to go about it.  Does anyone know how I can get the number of who is calling?

thanks

Chris

cbarringer@smcvt.edu

I'm in Vancouver and got this call on 9:59pm May Sun 13.  I didn't pick up and saw this on my call display.  What a weird number.  Who is it?

Sometimes when I call out from Skype it shows a string like this to who I'm calling.

This may shed more light on it:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/ip-telephony/?p=601

received this call on my cell phone on May 20, 2007 at 3:28pm.  It went into my voice mail.  Could not understand the caller.  But it sounded like a garbled up message.  Someone saying hello to Grandma??  Very annoying since I felt like it was someone in danger and that I needed to do something.  So I looked it up on the internet and found out it was someone who uses Skype, whatever that is?  Someone needs to do something to get rid of Skype!

This is the skype outbound number so can be abused to any extent

This is from a scamming company called Bodhost.  They are based in the UK and US, with an office in California, that is, if they are legitimately based anywhere at all.  (www.bodhost.com)  They tried to charge $268.00 to my credit card through my PayPal account.  To their credit and my overwhelming gratitude, the PayPal fraud dept. caught it before I did and told me the offender was from Macedonia.  Who knows?  All I know is, since PayPal won't allow the transaction, they are now making harrassing calls to my cell phone, which, unfortunately, is listed on my PayPal account.  I have since unlisted all account numbers from PayPal.  (I could cancel the card, but PayPal assured me that the info is not viewable to anyone else.)  I have called my cell phone provider and they are sending me a form to fill in and notarize so that they can investigate and I can pursue action.  The bodhost website looks legit enough, but that doesn't mean anything.  I called the California number listed on the site and nothing...no ring, no busy signal...nothing.  Below is info I found on a forums website. You can see, in a reply from Bodhost, how they try to get contact info from the complaining person. You'll get an idea about how they operate.  Good luck and let me know if this helps and if you have any suggestions of what to do about it.

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03-26-2007, 11:44 AM    #16  
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Posts: 58  Hello jodawi,

The $8 is for cPanel / WHM which we purchase from cPanel.net. The amount is reflected in our billing system also which they directly transact to our account. We charge no extra from our clients what they charge to us. It is also an option and not a mandatory selection. You can purchase the cPanel / WHM license directly from cpanel.net and only opt for the hosting package.

Jodawi i am sure everything has sorted out. This might be a issue on behalf of paypal. However, if yet you have any further issues. Let us know and we will definitely get a solution for the same.

Bodhost co-operates to their customers in all situations and provides them with their every requirements. However, we also have limitation which we have to follow like the charges for the cPanel / WHM.

Perhaps, cajuntech has a lot to say about us. However, we will continue to provide good service and support to our clients.

I apologize, cajuntech, but you were a client of micfo.com and not bodhost.com. Well, in this situation where the discomfort is felt by my friend. We can provide you with one-month grace vps hosting absolutely free and i suppose thereafter you can investigate the difference between the service between Bodhost and micfo.

Just Let me know about it and i will send you the login information for the same. If possible I would also like to know why your website ispgeeks.com has been down from last 3 weeks.

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03-27-2007, 03:29 AM    #17  
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Posts: 20  To answer your last question first. ISPgeeks is not my site. The site has been operational 24/7 since November 11th and still is working just fine. It is my understanding from the site owner however that you have been banned from the site at the server level, hence your inability to gain access. You musta really ticked the owner off for him to do that, thats all I can say about that. Why don't you send him an email and let him tell you whats up. As for your offer of web services....again...I think you need to talk with the person that caught you. You have his email address.

And your 2nd to last statement....um no....I was not customer of either one of you clowns thank god I was warned in advance. You still have not addressed the MANY issues I rasied previously. Still waiting Shane....
     

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Posts: 58  Hello cajuntech,

I suppose the clients name is (name removed for legal reasons) who has completely misunderstood the concept. Anyways, if you can chat to us live about it. We can work out a solution here.

Or perhaps, you can provide me with your contact number in order to discuss the issue in detail. Let me know as soon as possible.

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Posts: 20  I can't answer that one way or the other. For two reasons...(1) I don't know and (2) because if I did know there is something called confidentiality. Assuming your information is correct you have probably just opened yourself up to a huge lawsuit but thats not my battle. You do realize that any client you may have hoped to get has just seen that you posted somebody's private information on the internet for some lame not to mention sick reason and there is no way in hell they will trust you with their information. Great job Shane...you have just proven my point entirely. Thank you for so perfectly proving my point that BodHost cannot be trusted with anything. I will forward your post on to those who are keeping track of these things.

I have skype- and it comes up as this anytime I call someone- it can be abused by anyone, as someone already mentioned

I got a few calls from some company in china (after looking into it specifically in Hefei, the capital of Anhui Province in central China) from this number. They left a message in very poor english asking me to email them about buying currency for video games? I listened to the message probably a hundred times and I think that's what it was about. Said their website was http://www.thsale.com

I have also received this number from someone calling through Skype.

i got a unknown call # with someone claiming they went to school with me and knowing my name right off the bat, as well as my high school and asking if id go out with them on friday, when i turned them down because i didnt know them, he sounded like he was crying and said but we were such close friends. i preceeded to tell him he had the wrong person and hung up.  5 mins later i got a call from a woman (using 1-000-012-3456)asking if i was talking to this "Ben" i said yes but i think he had the wrong number i dont know who he is. She proceeded to yell about "oh dont gimme that [***]" and i again hung up. The next call i did not answer they left a voicemail. the woman was yelling and this "ben" was hysterically yelling "im sorry shes doing this"

I get calls about twice a day from this number, my girlfriend answered once, but the person just repeated saying hello? Hello? But this is some scary stuff. My number is brand new how did they get it?

Yup, it's calls being made throught Skype.

Got this phone call and I never pick up calls I'm not familiar with.  They left a message that I could not understand either.

I've received several calls from the same number but I never answer them.  Today was the first time someone actually left a voice mail message.  The guy calling said his name, and of course it was garbled (like most of the calls you all have posted about)  He addressed me by my first name and proceeded to tell me how much he loved me and how much he's missed me.  Although it does piss me off, it was kind of funny!  He ended his message with a very pitiful "I love you (insert my name) sniffle, sniffle ... Bye."

i was at stop and shop with my family and all of a sudden my phone rang with this number and i answered it and it a was male voice saying i am fed up with ur [***] and so on and so forth. The also said that my gf was dead

I keep getting numerous calls from this goddamn number. This person will call once, and I'll send a busy tone (long distance charges? Do not want.) and about within a minute, this said person will call again and again. Sometimes there's a five minute gap between the calls, and sometimes there's only a couple of seconds.

Regardless, I did answer once. However, right from answering the call, it made a dial out... As if I'M the one making the call. I let the phone ring because I wanted to get to the bottom of this stupidity.

The person answered was a male. He was talking to me very loosely and casually, as if we were acquainted before (like we're close friends. Specifically, he said "Yo, what's up?") When I asked for his name, without missing a beat (or sounding confused), he promptly asked for mine as if it didn't care who the hell just [***] called him. So, I just hung up.

Apparently, this is all from Skype, and if I honestly had the power, I would bring that company down.

I've gotten the police involved in this, it's merely impossible to trace the phone number, some say that it is possible to but is a waste of the time and effort. I've been getting harassing calls between the hours of 11pm-1am. It's ridiculous .. and it's not even a minor prank call, these people go beyond and start threatening me :S.
when they call my Home Phone it shows kingkong50060 "Unknown Number"