Getting strange calls from a "fake" number

Throckmorton

Lifer
Aug 23, 2007
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Last week they called me but I didn't have my phone. They just called again and I answered, but all I got was silence for like 20 seconds, and they hung up.

What the?? The digits are counting down from 9, and then a 9. Is it a fake number?
 

spidey07

No Lifer
Aug 4, 2000
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No, the caller just didn't want you to know what the calling number is to they put bogus digits in there.
 

spidey07

No Lifer
Aug 4, 2000
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Originally posted by: Throckmorton
How is that even possible?

On phone lines you don't HAVE to use the actual phone number of the line in the caller-ID, you can use whatever you want. Especially is they are phone lines that don't have numbers.