This number has called several times over the past couple of weeks. I don't answer numbers I don't know, but I was tired of this number calling so I picked up. The person had a very robotic voice and said they were from Microsoft and that my computer had been sending failure messages or something. I knew it was BS so I told them to take my number off their list. Then they said they weren't a telemarketer and I said yes they were and that I knew they had called several times. They immediately hung up. Pretty sure they're trying to scam people. Beware.

We can no longer believe the phone number we see on our caller IDs (CID) belongs to the person who called!  The bad guys are now using easily accessed technology to "spoof" the CID numbers, so their real number does not appear.

The problem has gotten so bad, the US government actually passed an Act, called "The Truth in Caller ID Act of 2009", making such spoofing illegal.  See http://www.fcc.gov/guides/caller-id-and-spoofing
for more information.

The FCC adopted that Act in June, 2010, stating that violators could be fined up to $10,000 for each violation.

However, the bad guys are ignoring this law ... after all, they are criminals, and that is what criminals do.  Although we now have a "law" against spoofing, it is very difficult to enforce it.

So, if you see a CID number on your phone when you are called by some scammer or telemarketer, it might not belong to the scammer!  It might be the number of some unsuspecting third party ... or, it might be one of those numbers that charge $25 (plus about $9 per minute) if you call it back.

Got a call from this number, called it back and got the recording that it had been disconnected and was no longer a working number. How do they set it up like that? They can annoy you but you can't call them back?? I want my number taken off their calling list!! They left no message, and wouldn't have talked if I had answered.