I received a call from the number 011-157-4889 unknown caller on the display. He is was calling our company. He says "Hey I forget the big boss man there's name!" Me "Pardon Me" him " I would like to talk to the big boss man!" sounded African -American. Do these people not realize people are privy to scammers....
Caller ID shows up as 0116041574889 which I took to be 604-157-4889. When I answered there was static on the line then about 5 seconds into the call a recording that said "Good bye". A robot testing if my line was live?
I got a call from the same number a few minutes ago. It was a deep man's voice (he sounded African-American) saying something like "hey man how you doing?" I said "who is this"? He said something that I couldn't understand but I thought had the word "police" in it, and then he said "is the big boss man around?" I said I have no idea what you're talking about and hung up
>>> Caller ID shows up as 0116041574889 which I took to be 604-157-4889. <<<
That's a mistake. The "011" is a code dialed before a number in many places to indicate an international call. Thus, the numbers that follow it are not a US or Canadian-type "area code" but rather the start of a "country code" followed by whatever passes for a local number and whatever other prefixes are locally required.
The country code for Malaysia is "60," so unless the number is being spoofed, that's where I think it might be coming from -- if the number otherwise has the correct number of digits. Calling Malaysia from the US or Canada is pretty cheap -- less than a cent and a half per minute -- according to my VoIP carrier (but your cost may vary). I imagine that calls made from Malaysia to the US or Canada may also be very cheap to make.