We have received the same - multiple phone calls per day and no messages left. Tonight we received one & a woman asked for my husband by name. I said he wasn't here and asked if she would like to leave a message. She said "No Message" and hung up. I will also contact ISU and put in my complaint.
Take a look, there is a list of people with contact information. Many of them "share" the same FAX number of 515-000-0000. One person even has that listed as their phone number. Do you really think they're sharing one FAX for that many people and one person's phone line? How would this person get real phone calls if he's getting FAXs all the time? Let's pretend for a moment that the creator of this webpage made a table and didn't want any fields empty. All of the phone numbers would have a given 515 area code and, for simplicity's sake, just copy-and-paste a template 515-000-0000.
If anyone actually knows anything about phone numbers, you will know that the number 000-0000 (no matter what area code) is not valid. No one can have that number. The originator of this call is faking his number. Yes, it's possible. Stop blaming ISU for a call that doesn't originate from ISU just because some schmuck didn't want an empty field in his phone number contact list.
I just wanted to let you know that this is not a fax machine from Iowa State University. If you look more closely at the ISU webpage that was provided earlier in these notes you will notice that the fax number is (515) 000-0000 because that person does not have a fax number listed and this is listed for several people. http://www.stuorg.iastate.edu/sankalp/
Furthermore, the reason that you are getting this number on your caller id is because it is what is called a phone number mask. Any company can get the right to have their number masked and many do for obvious reasons. These are telemarketers and do not want you to call them back!
Star 69 the number and got1-515-000-0000. Sometimes twice an hour. At least 10 a day. Want to kill someone. Anyone really know where this is coming from?
Recieved a call from 515-000-0000. Found it to be odd. Highly doubt it is an Iowa State number. My thought is that it is a telemarketer or political caller. Googled it and found this webpage.