The caller ID number is not real. It is "spoofed" (faked) by the telemarketer with a random phone number in your area to make you think it is a local caller when it's not. You're not allowed to see the real number the call originated from unless you get law enforcement and the phone company to agree to place a trace on your phone line in advance. Usually these calls originate from out of state or even out of the country to avoid prosecution.
The phone company sells the telemarketer special access to the phone network via a digital ISDN PRI subscriber line to allow them to do this. Everybody knows this goes on: the phone companies, the FCC, the FBI, the state attorneys general, local law enforcement, the FTC, even Congress passed a law making it illegal in 2009 (see H.R.1258 and S.30).
This will only stop when enough citizens of this country demand their elected representatives force the executive agencies of the government to enforce the law despite the contributions from the telemarketers to their re-election funds.
The caller ID number is not real. It is "spoofed" (faked) by the telemarketer with a random phone number in your area to make you think it is a local caller when it's not. You're not allowed to see the real number the call originated from unless you get law enforcement and the phone company to agree to place a trace on your phone line in advance. Usually these calls originate from out of state or even out of the country to avoid prosecution.
The phone company sells the telemarketer special access to the phone network via a digital ISDN PRI subscriber line to allow them to do this. Everybody knows this goes on: the phone companies, the FCC, the FBI, the state attorneys general, local law enforcement, the FTC, even Congress passed a law making it illegal in 2009 (see H.R.1258 and S.30).
This will only stop when enough citizens of this country demand their elected representatives force the executive agencies of the government to enforce the law despite the contributions from the telemarketers to their re-election funds.