But why do they keep calling back? They don't leave a message either. I know for sure that if you block their number, they call back immediately from the same area code with a different phone nember. Thanks to all of your posts, it's a huge help!
How / where did you learn how to read that ID string?
("That V string is placed there by their robo V-Dialer. It means you were called on Jul 18th a 20:50.53 (8:50 pm and 53 secs) and were call 00046 in the current sequence. Not much use except maybe to them but now you know how to interpret that ID string.")
It's called Caller ID Spoofing. They're dialing through a computer, inputting a bogus or even a real phone number so it comes up on your Caller ID. Scammers are now inputting phone numbers that will appear local to you, all in an effort to get you to answer your phone. Spoofing is illegal, but right now, law enforcement doesn't have a way to identify callers that use this type of technology, which is why the scammers are spoofing their phone numbers.
This same number called me yesterday and as I do not answer calls that I don't recognize I let it ring but a message was left and the message was from my bank, so I checked my readable voicemail via email and the # on the readable voicemail was my banks actual # but on my caller id it came up from Cedar Hill TX 972 460 4155. WTF? How is this possible? Are they rerouting and listening to all of my calls? This fool needs to be arrested and prosecuted! BEWARE PEOPLE!!!