This number isn't a telephone number -- it's a toaster's serial number. You are being called by someone's toaster, and the owner is half a loaf short of a Dagwood sandwich.
There are no real telephone numbers in the 202 or any other American area code in which the number after the area code begins with either a "0" or a "1".
>>> well i still got back to back calls from this number....so explain that mr. wizard. <<<
Mr. Wizard: Anyone can spoof the caller ID on a call *to* your number any time they want, little Billy. I have a spoofing mechanism set up right here in my lab. Go ahead, call your cell phone and see what number shows up!
Little Billy: Golly gee, Mr. Wizard! It shows up as 202-014-2536! How do you DO that?
Mr. Wizard: Through the magic of voice over internet protocol, Little Billy! But you can also do it on a regular line if you attach your own private branch exchange, something that most telephone companies allow for their call center customers.
Little Billy: I did it again and it rang my phone with the same number! Can I call it back?
Mr. Wizard: Go ahead and try, Little Billy.
Little Billy: It's ... not ... working ... no ... matter ... how ... hard ... I ... try ...
Mr. Wizard: That's because in the United States, the 014 part of the number isn't allowed! It can't go to a phone, which is called call termination, because there is no carrier that terminates this sort of number.
Little Billy: Why is that, Mr. Wizard?
Mr. Wizard: It's an artifact of the past, Little Billy, from way back when people used to be able to dial 7 digits. Back then, if you dialed a 0 before a number, the operator would break in and assist you with the call. You would have to dial eight digits -- seven plus the leading zero -- for the phone system to know that you were finished dialing the number.
Little Billy: But don't you need the same number to dial out from that you need to dial in to?
Mr. Wizard: That's a big misperception, little Billy. You see, you don't actually have to have *any* number from which to dial out, and often, a whole group of lines uses the same number for the caller ID to dial out. That's how, for example, a hospital or a government agency gives out it's caller ID number so that people who are called always get a single switchboard number as the line to which to call back. But if you *do* give out a number, it usually has to be in a 10 digit format to be originated in a US phone service provider. But not with all providers.
So you see, Little Billy, you can receive spoofed numbers from a caller as many times as they care to dial you. But you can't always dial them back or expect the person who answers when you are able to call back to be the same people who called you.
Little Billy: Thanks, Mr. Wizard!
Mr. Wizard: Thank you, Little Billy! Next week, we'll learn how to make a capacitor and cream cheese sandwich on Bakelite and learn how to test its caloric content and nutritional value.
Regular capacitor or flux capacitor? I much prefer the flux capacitor myself but they are just soooooo expensive and hard to find, and don't forget to add the lettuce, tomato and mayonnaise to the sandwich before you test the caloric value.