Caller ID shows "V"+ a whole bunch of digits

If only I could trust a telemarketer.

Comcast has one of the most buggy, inconsistant caller id and cnam I've seen.  These V calls, are just one thing.  What idiot allows this garbage into the Cnam database, for that matter why is Comcast using such a weak Cnam source to begin with?  The best Cnam was "Asterisk".  That's the default Cnam sent over the Sip channel for the open source Ipbx, Asterisk.  How on earth did that get into a Cnam database?  Like I say, it's just a default sent over the Sip channel.  For Pots, you have to dig up the Cnam once your switch receives the calls.  For "Asterisk" to be in a Cnam database, you have to question the legitimacy of that Cnam source.  My guess is that Comcast is in fact, allowing telemarketers to have direct Sip interconnects to their network.  From then on Comcast just used the Sip channel Cnam and saves the Cnam dip fee.  What Cnam source allows "Asterisk" and V(13 digits) into it unless it's an incredibly weak source?

Btw, I want to add that I have access to three third party Cnam sources on the web, and none if them list V(13digits) for the numbers posted, or any number.  Typicall us unknown or blank.  Which enforces thevfact that Comcast is allowing direct Sip interconnects into it's network.

One day the same number may show "unknown", then the next day, a city and state, etc.  The reason for this may be that Comcast uses multiple Cnam sources, each one is a little different.  Which would account for some of the inconsistancy in the Cnam from day to day.  Comcast should standardize one Cnam source, and perhaps standardize the whole thing by treating a blank or city and state, and use the word Unknown on the customer's caller id dusplay instead.

Please see my comments about "V + sequence of digits" here:

https://800notes.com/forum/ta-77e63099a73abbc ... uence-of-digits

I am sorry for your situation, but I do not have any sympathy nor time for anyone breaking the law.  I am on the NATIONAL DO NOT CALL LIST  That means that, under no uncertain terms, do I want ANY telemarketer calling me.  If I see a number on caller ID that does not completely disclose who it is that is calling me, I do not answer the phone.  I then investigate who is trying to contact me, add them to my CALL BLOCK list and report them to the authorities.

Even if you are disabled or do not have another job at the time, the does not give you the right to blatantly ignore a national do not call list and break the law.  Please do not ask for understanding or leniency from me.  I have none to give.  There are too many criminals out there trying to scam and I am so over it.

I got one a few minutes ago: V05222023140164

I know this is some type of crook so I just didn't answer.

0522 is the date. 202314 is probably their time down to the second.

What about numbers like 15ca6a9aaba5 or 1253429c454? I refuse to answer any phone number that has any letters in it, based on general principles and extreme caution, and these calls ring once then disconnect.

I wouldn't eather. If it's important, they'll leave a message.

When I get a V number call, I answer and immediately rapidly press numbers on the key pad. I don't know what that does, but it's slightly satisfying. Also, when I get a call from "Unavailable", or 000-000-0000, or such, I answer and tell them to call me back when their information is on caller ID. They never do.

It's a waste of time, I know, and it's easier to not answer, but there's a slight chance that my number will be removed. It seemed to work at least once. I was getting several calls a day from a V number and they stopped when I began pressing the key pad.

Do that and you're confirming that yours is a valid phone number. Calls will increase.

Folks, please stop jumping all over Pat Kelly. It is not Pat's fault (or many of the other GOOD people who needed ANY job desperately, thanks to the rich jerks on Wall Street that caused this mess today, yet still have their jobs and million dollar bonuses!). They way some call centers work, these folks don't even manually dial the phone numbers. It may be auto dialed by the system, and the next available agent MUST pickup the call immediately (or get fired), and begin to read the scripts word for word, in the correct tone of voice, etc - or lose their job. They have zero control over any of this process. These are modern day sweat shops, but sadly, about the only jobs left open for most Americans to get - and sadly, lucky enough this job didn't go offshore. The RRAL people to blame, and hate vehemently, are their managers and owners of these telemarketing companies! And hate them even more, for they are greedy MAGGOTS, getting rich by enslaving people under them, in sweat shop conditions, paying their employees scraps, while they sit back and laugh all the way to the bank! So please consider this next time? It is NOT people like Pat to hate. And also imagine how folks like Pat feels as well? After a day of hearing people hate YOU on the phone, , they suffer too.

My caller ID showed V06021237330032. A man with a heavy Indian accent was on the other line telling me that he is from Windows Technical support. He was asking me to go to my computer, log in and follow his instruction because my computer was reported to them that it has some software problem.

This is unbelievable, the modus operandi is very obvious. How could people be this stupid!

Patricia Kelley (second 'e') has thankfully been absent for months. You should be aware that she spent close to three years "jumping all over" the readers on this site and its cousins. She habitually and repeatedly posted manic run-on paragraphs like a spammer, sometimes changing her alias to "Pat K", "Rachelle Kelley", and "Pamela Pugh". Her usual purpose was to use these sites as her personal dumping ground for bratty rants directed at specific persons answering her calls, like somehow they would be reading. Otherwise she would defend her career choice with a snarl like a wounded animal, threatening that all of us reading have to pay her living expenses if she loses her precious home office job, and declaring the federal Do-Not-Call registry an act of "treason".

Her entry in this thread was abnormally mild, but even here admits that "I hate to bug people but" she does it anyway. She's here half defending a practice used by the worst lawbreakers whose primary weapon is an autodialer. Naturally that raises neck hairs on people who can't stand another illegal or unwanted sales call or another survey call of dubious origin. People like her are the initial intruders and annoyances, who have no room for haughty complaints of "they hit me back first". She works for an industry which almost no one likes, including many among its work force. I have a problem believing that her own problems with cranky calls don't start with her own "pity party" attitude consistently on display in her complaints. Our worst handicaps are hidden above the neck.

That is true!  I just got one today, 6/12 and that is the date, and it was at 7:40 pm which was 4:40 pm in Arizona where the area code (520) was located on the caller ID.  Those were the next 4 numbers after the V..(1640).  I never ever pick up the phone and there is never ever a message left.  In fact, on my landline, I never answer the phone anymore. I figure, hey, if you want to talk to me, leave a message, and I'll call you back, (if you don't want my money....)