Today I recieved a call and no one said anything. The phone number that appeared on my phone was "108." I tried to call it back and of course it couldn't be called. I tried to look it up and of course it couldn't be looked up. Annoying!!
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CJ
The number was spoofed; unfortunately there's no way to easily see who really called. If there was no one on the other end, it is likely a robodialer and by picking up, you've inadvertently confirmed your number as a working one. You may be in for more junk calls in the future.
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There is a way
While CallerID Information can be easily spoofed, A.N.I. cannot be. This is the the information originating from the switch that set up the call, and this information is received at _your_ telephone companies switch. Most carriers have a star code that causes the switch to send the A.N.I. information to a database managed by their customer security services group. Look up the star codes that your carrier uses on their website.
All you do is hang up, punch in the star code and the true caller ID information is recorded. Of course they will require a subpeona to get access to that information.
I've been tempted to set up a service to bypass callerID, by just programming the switch to put the A.N.I into the CallerID field when the call is recieved. It should be fairly trivial. Like maybe four or five lines of code, if that. In this way all callerID would be 100% accurate. Of course I'd have to put the switch off-shore because it is probably illegal in the U.S. to do something like this.
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Wanda
The 3-digit #s seem to come from India/Pakistan, often preceded by a "+." "+90493" is/was probably Scorpio Systems
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