If it has a V number I don't answer it, as if they won't pay for an actual phone number, then they are something trying to either sell me something, or give me something I don't want. If they are legitimate they will have a phone number. Same things with callers that say "this is your 3rd and final notice. There is nothing wrong with your credit card......" I have tried everything to get rid of those calls, reported them to the NoCall that I am on, and they can't catch them, as the NoCall says they piggy back onto legitimate phone numbers that they don't own. It is a racket!
If you have Comcast you can enable Selective Call Forwarding. SCF lets you forward any number to 1 specific telephone number. I pick 1 spammer and foward all other spammers to that number. Try it, you might like it. Payback is a [***].
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jm
On the Pstn, callerid name (Cnam) does not go through, and is looked up by the destination provider. On most VoIP systems, the Cnam can be sent along with the number. If you have Voip, and they call, your 10 digit Pstn number, then the cnam would have to ge looked up as if it were a pure Pstn call. However, the fact that we're getting these seemingly dynamic V codes as Cnam, it is suspected that the origin provider has Voip interconnect peering agreements in place. Most cable phone providers seem to do this. Comcast does for sure as I found a report stateing they saved millions in termination costs. It is like thoses carriers should not be passing these false cnam from the Voip network as those V codes are leaking out this fact that peering agreements are in place.
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JL-ATL
Been getting a bunch of these lately. According to Ooma, who shows the number that called, the number is always different. Same area code but different 7 digits. I think I have a handle on decoding some of it. Caller ID: V1171022070170792593 V = always first character 117 = call on Jan 17 1022 = Time of call offset by 3 hours (are they coming from the west coast?) 07 = Could be the second of the call. My logs are not that accurate 170 = no idea what that is. 792593 = Every call ends in these 6 digits. Suspect it is an ID of the scammer calling me.
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LargeVirus
this is the Bandwidth.com VoIP calling ID service IDs. it lists the string after the V (VoIP caller) as the local time and date of the call.
PAT KELLEY FROM PAGE 1, thank you for your helpful explanation. I've been trying to figure this out becoz for the past several years, we get this kind of call many times a day- exasperating! I've stopped answering becoz it is inevitably someone with a thick accent attempting to "clean our carpets" (which we don't have) or "service our PC" or "Windows computer" ( don't have that either!) or sell us "homeowners insurance" (ha ha ha ha ha!) or… the list goes on. sometimes they claim to be from Social Security (for shame! preying on elderly & disabled) or some medical insurance provider or other, occasionally they have been bogus creditors trying to con us into thinking we owe big bux to someone or other. Some have represented themselves as survey takers, others have pretended we are Big Winners of some hokey sweepstakes or other ("just wire a small fee to collect your prize" baloney AND cheese) etc…
honestly, i don't know why your response got so many down votes. i thought it well written & informative, so i gave you my up vote. Sux that you are forced into such a crappy line of work, but i understand a person has to take what is available and sometimes that is all there is. Ive also had my share of crap telemarketing jobs as a teen- like the disabled, very young workers also have extremely limited access to income- so i get it. the folks who gave you down votes must have never been stuck with crummy call center jobs themselves, and are woefully short on compassion.
Down votes should be reserved for trolls. Too bad the 5 people giving down votes for your useful & informative post didn't recognize they were behaving like trolls themselves.
LONE STRANGER ON PG 2 wrote: "But you don't need to block the calls, you need to learn the law. You can make them go away, or at least collect money from them if they refuse, and then a judge will make them go away. Please start educating yourself by going here: http://www.ftc.gov/os/statutes/fdcpajump.shtm"
so, have YOU been able to collect any money / get a judge to make them stop?? luvved your advice- how well has it worked for you so far?
So let me get this straight...you're replying to posts that are almost TWO years old...are you HONESTLY expecting a reply?! Also, I think it was the fact that 'Pat Kelly' worked in a call center that got her thumbed down. If you don't want to deal with them, don't pick up the dang phone-they'll go away! By answering and talking to them, you've identified your number as a 'live' one and they will continue to call. It's that simple.
A bit of the same whining had crept into her March 2012 remarks, which otherwise made the only helpful input I can recall from her. Possibly other readers were reacting to her reputation and made an unfair judgment of the given comment. Frankly I don't think the voting should be given much weight, since there are no established criteria.
Stranger sustained an injury some months ago and hasn't been back since. (a fact which has worried me) He had a few times casually mentioned being involved in litigation, but never got specific. From his many contributions in support of fighting dirty debt collectors, I would hardly be surprised if he ever used the FDCPA in court as designed.
In his stead, I can make the sunny report that this law does work in your favor if you use it well. Just over a year ago I extracted a few grand from a scofflaw agency, winning a consent judgment in federal court. I did slightly better than most FDCPA victors since I had no lawyer to split the award. The same law also can be used to impose behavior modification on rude collectors before they commit actionable violations, though many of them insist on violating anyway. You can't expect to win the war on a single letter or summons, but regaining some dignity is certainly feasible.
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Unhappy
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I just received a call that displayed as V20803344500162 unknown number. The person asked for the owner of the phone. He then said he was from Windows Cloud. I told him I though it was a scam and please stop calling me (I had received a similar call just 2 minutes prior). He proceeded to tell me to F off.
His reaction says it all. These clowns will use all kinds of tactics.
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whistle blower
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get a hockey referees whistle.. and wait for the offender to calll.. pick up the phone... and blow the whistle as hard as you can into the phone... usualy these dork sticks have headphones on.... you will deafen them and they wont call back..
Unfortunately that tactic can backfire. I used to do the same thing with a "screaming rubber chicken" but after a while they started calling be back directly. And by directly I mean they took my actual number out of the system and phoned me rather than the computer keeping me somewhat anonymous. And if you actually injure someone you can be held liable (especially if the call actually originates in your country- they aren't all hidden away in Nigeria or Bangladesh). That's why it's also not a good idea to make threats of violence or anything like that. It may not be fair, but you could be the one getting intro trouble, not Billy Nolife the telemarketer. The best thing to do is invest in call display and voicemail and never answer these types of calls. As always, if it's important - or legitimate - the caller will leave a voicemail. I won't suggest call block with this particular type of call because as far as I know most phone-company call block services don't work with V or "all zeroes" numbers.
I keep getting the same type of call. It is also someone with foreign accent wanting to take over my computer. They keep telling me they are from Windows and there is a security issue.
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