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Phone rings.
Me:Hello? Caller:Hello am I speaking with Line cuts off but I can hear people talking in background. Me:Hello? Hello? Line goes dead/disconnects. Dial 1471 "You were called today at (time) by 000 00 000" Any idea where this might have come from? I thought if it was withheld or from abroad you get "the caller withheld their number",or "the callers details are not available",or similar? |
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Some people use anonymous caller reject, meaning that if someone calls them and withholds their number, or is calling from abroad, they don't get though.
A lot of companies that call up to flog you stuff use withheld numbers - and that means they won't get through to some people - so they spoof a caller ID (easy to do when using VoIP) so that they can bypass it. Also, it means that you won't know who they are! |
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I figured it was probably a sales call of some kind but did 1471 as I've got several job applications on the go and it could have been one of them phoning me. I had one call once where a 1471 returned the full American number including "001 (area code) (number)".but I've never had a string of zeroes like this one before.
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Phone rings.
Me:Hello? Caller:Hello am I speaking with Line cuts off but I can hear people talking in background. Me:Hello? Hello? Line goes dead/disconnects. Dial 1471 "You were called today at (time) by 000 00 000" Any idea where this might have come from? I thought if it was withheld or from abroad you get "the caller withheld their number",or "the callers details are not available",or similar? if the calls comes from a witheld number then 1471 will tell you this, if a call comes from a network not comptable with your own you would get a message saying "we do not have the number to return the call". all the 0s that you gotis a strange one, most likely i think it would be due to a fault in the exchange (maybe a one off one occurnace) |
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all the 0s that you gotis a strange one, most likely i think it would be due to a fault in the exchange (maybe a one off one occurnace)
Many switchboards let you set any number you like as the CLI. I could if I so wished programme my office phone to send all zeros or any other number I like. It is not that difficult. There are legitimate reasons for doing this of course. Say you have a department of 20 people, they each may have a direct dial in number that goes straight to their extension. But you may want most incomming calls to the department to go to a specific number. So you programme up the CLI for all 20 phones to send the group number. |
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I often spoofed the CLI, but only for fun to friends and family or when someone didn't accept withheld numbers and I didn't want to send a number.
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