Got a call from this company tonight assuring me that I could get money for my surgery. I went on a rant with the guy and he wouldn't shut up so I could rant. Kept telling him NOT TO TALK OVER ME! He finally hung up. Had these continuously a couple months ago, so I must have just rolled back to the top of the page. Next time, I'm going to tell them I had a sex change and the only thing they can do for me is provide me with a [***] because that is all that is left! Then I'm going to ask for their address so my attorney can deliver a law suit since they are violating the HIPAA law.....hopefully that will stop them, but probably won't because they are idiots calling outside of our country.
Ok, how (IN THE HELL) these people call you, you miss the call on purpose because you don't recognize the number ... then a few minutes later you call it and there's a recording that says: "the number you have called is not in service, please check the number and dial again" ... HOW DOES THAT HAPPEN?!
I do not give y cell number to ANYONE, except for business contacts and family members. This is VERY AGGRAVATING!!!! Arrrrgggggh!
>>> a few minutes later you call it and there's a recording that says: "the number you have called is not in service, please check the number and dial again" ... HOW DOES THAT HAPPEN?! <<<
One of the easiest ways to fool a non-technical person (i.e., one who isn't skilled in the VERY technical art of telephone company switching systems) is to record the disconnected message on a voice mail announcement.
See https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DCiF4abBryA for an example.
In fact, a device that you could attach to your own telephone line that played the signaling tones (if not the voice recording) used to be sold to consumers not that many years ago. You just had to press a button when you wanted the device to operate.
The theory was that most predictive dialers would respond to at least one of the tones and automatically drop you from its calling list. These devices probably don't work anymore.
Because telephones have advanced a lot since the days of oatmeal boxes with connecting strings and now use something known as out-of-band signaling, a more sophisticated scammer has access to many more and much more effective ways of sending you a caller ID that you can't call back. But how they do it is way beyond the scope of this web site and what I feel like discussing right now. It would severely tax your patience, anyway, as would be the case with most people who are not telephone geeks. And anybody who needs to hide behind a caller ID this way already knows how to do it and wouldn't be asking the question on this board in the first place.