If you called the 2148440000 number and got time and temp, and waited for a while, you would get dial tone back. This was BOA's dial tone from their pbx. If you then dialed out, the number you called would gat the caller ID from BOA saying they were getting the call from 2148440000. Kids used this to prank call a lot. I think the BOA number in Dallas has now been changed because of this, or could be that they just got a new PBX. As much as I dislike BOA, It was not actually them that was making the outgoing calls.
I got this call, but didn't answer it. I don't answer any calls I don't recognize, since many of these telemarketers will keep calling you over and over if you answer. Better safe than sorry. Check these sites first.
However, I can add information to this group. I got a call from "1506225759" just 20 seconds before this call. Yep, it's missing a final digit.
I suspect that someone is calling from outside the United States and masking the call with an id of "214-844-0000". I checked 506-225-759X and came up with numbers in Costa Rica and Panama.
This is sad. Bank of America is supposed to be a reputable company. I had one of their 2pt. font privacy memos come with my last statement, on the back it had all these 3rd party companies that are "linked" with them.
That's one of the 1000's of reasons you can't fight them, all the people in the shadows doing their dirty work.
It makes me mad.
One more thing, Caller ID has been around for a LONG time and should be way more advanced by now. If you have business license, who in the hell is checking up on these people as they establish phone services. Should I start my own "business" and have it come up on people's ID as: Local Hospital, or Poison Control, so parents can throw a heart attack when the phone rings?!?! I don't get it.
I didn't recognize the number so let it go to vm, it was a little girl asking me to call her back but I could not really understand her. But you could barely hear a woman in the background telling her what to say.
Bank of America (and its many predecessors including Nations Bank, NCNB, First Republic, and Republic National -- plus several more I've forgotten) has provided the Dalla area free time and temperature reports at 214-844-nnnn and 972-844-nnnn since I was but a wee tot (and I'm 76). I've noticed lately that they're not answering calls for T&T, and I wondered why. Sounds like someone has highjacked their phone number, doesn't it? So far as I know, their T&T machine(s) is incoming only -- and not capable of making outgoing calls.
I get the same "last chance to save money on your credit card" type messages, but they're not from the B/A T&T number.
Incidentally, the "nnnn" in the numbers above mean that you can call any number from 0000 to 9999 on either area code and reach T&T (well, until recently).