Scammer Identification

You are on a hiding to nothing as its a continual war between those who scam and those who wish to stop them. Brian

IME most scam calls are placed using VoIP services that are not attached to, or related to, any physical phone line. They can present any CLI that they like. Often that is used to present a number belonging to the organisation they are pretending to be be, but equally it might just be a random number they have wither made up, or "borrowed" from some other unsuspecting subscriber.

I am getting the odd call where the caller says "I am returning your call" when I haven't called them. I assume therefore that some scroat is making some sort of marketing/scam/spam using my mobile number so when you use *69 you are simply be calling the poor soul whose number has been spoofed.

Dave

Can you explain what you mean by 'no number'? I have caller ID on my landline and there's either a number, or 'international'. If I don't recognise the number or it's not for my area I don't answer. If it says 'number withheld' it's often my doctor.

I've not heard of your *69 and *59 - would they give me more information? What is the difference between them? Are you talking about your landline or your mobile?

There is no number presented. You can turn the caller ID off on any call you make so the called party never gets any number.

Making that feature useless, in all but the most dire circumstance.

Paul

That may be implemented on us/canada exchanges using e.g. 5ESS switches, but I've never heard of those star codes on british AXE10 switches, where's dennis@home when he might be useful?

When I read the article, I hadn't realized that the feature had traveled the world a bit (with different numeric codes).

Sometimes, phone system features take a long time to roll out.

When number portability became law here, I was denied number portability for ten years. There were five other cities with the same technical limitation.

It's possible the switches had the feature in the datafill, but nobody could turn it on until it was available nationwide.

Paul

I had three calls from 0845 602 1111. I missed the first two but picked up the phone when the 3rd was ringing and line went dead for 10 seconds and then gave the continuous tone of line disconnected.

AFAIK this is how BT sends texts to landlines, so why didn't it just squark out the message ?. I am not going to pay BT to ring this number just to hear some nonsense.