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I get calls at least twice a week saying the same thing. That I have been selected to receive $2000 towards travel expenses from Expedia. I finally called this number back. The guy that answered sounded very surprised I had called and told me I had no idea what I was talking about and I probably dialed the number wrong. Yeah its hard to dial a wrong # when you are just returning a call on your cell phone.

>> The guy that answered sounded very surprised I had called and told me I had no idea what I was talking about and I probably dialed the number wrong. <<

We can no longer believe the phone number we see on our caller IDs (CID) belongs to the person who called!  The bad guys are now using easily accessed technology to "spoof" the CID numbers, so their real number does not appear.

The problem has gotten so bad, the US government actually passed an Act, called "The Truth in Caller ID Act of 2009", making such spoofing illegal.  See http://www.fcc.gov/guides/caller-id-and-spoofing
for more information.

The FCC adopted that Act in June, 2010, stating that violators could be fined up to $10,000 for each violation.

However, the bad guys are ignoring this law ... after all, they are criminals, and that is what criminals do.  Although we now have a "law" against spoofing, it is very difficult to enforce it.

So, if you see a CID number on your phone when you are called by some scammer or telemarketer, it might not belong to the scammer!  It might be the number of some unsuspecting third party ... or, it might be one of those numbers that charge $25 (plus about $9 per minute) if you call it back, or the number might not be "real" at all.