Ted Leung on the air : caller id = 000-000-0000?!

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Wed, 15 Sep 2004

Yesterday I discovered that someone called my home office line 9 times early in the morning. The interesting / horrifying thing was that my caller ID reported their phone number as 000-000-0000. I was very brief when they called again and turned out to be a telemarketer. It seems that caller ID spoofing technology is out in the wild.

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Actually, spoofing caller-ID has always been trivial if you have a PRI connection to the PSTN. a PBX, for example, has always been able to fake the number. Now usually it's used for "good" but nobody said it had to be, unfortunately.

There's another service, ANI, which is nearly impossible to fake because the information is attached by the carrier, but it's not passed to anyone under most circumstances.
Posted by petrilli at Thu Sep 16 06:14:48 2004

It's probably too late to fix this problem on PSTN, but we need to solve it for VOIP. SIP has support for signing the messages it uses for call setup and teardown, but I do not think there are existing standards for authenticating these messages between organizations. Doing so at the individual level can be quite cumbersome. I think we need something like SPF or DomainKeys for SIP.
Posted by jamey at Fri Sep 17 06:31:04 2004

well 000-000-0000 called me 4 times and wen i tried to call it back it didnt work so i googled it cuz u can giv google a phone# and it'll tell you that phone #'s address, kreepy huh? Anyway, i googled it and this site came up and i'm really lost as to what this # is exactly, and after reading previous posts here i better understand it, but now i wonder...is it possible for that # to exist @ all?

-15/F/USA
Posted by Nite Whisper at Thu Jun 30 17:22:46 2005

000-000-0000 says they are allied international frieght. when I traced it down it belongs to 3000 corporate drive in columbus ohio and is a fraudlet collection group using lies, threats, anything at all to get your bank account numbers, personal work numbers, and harasses you. I just got this phone number and now i know why the previous party changed his
Posted by kena at Thu Jan 19 17:48:59 2006

I too have been getting this number. I never answered it, because I mean I was like "what the h*ll, a number all 0s?" I told my friend about it and we were at lunch when the number called me 3 times in a span of 10 minutes. My friend grabbed my phone, answered, but noone answered back. The next time it called, she answered again, they hung up...the next time, I answered and I got "Is this Christopher?" I hung up. I was kind of at work at the time, and my manager started yelling at me, but I explained to her. But yea, I'm getting really pissed at this number, it calls me SEVERAL times a day.
Posted by Chris at Thu Apr 13 04:24:19 2006

I recieved this number and googled it as well, but when I finally decided to answer it, it was a man duing a local city survey on how and what I vote for. He did not ask anything about my credit card number or something like that. The only personal information he asked for was my age.
Posted by Luke at Thu Apr 27 14:56:32 2006

I too got a call from that number. A guy asked for me by my first name. When I asked him who was calling, he said Dan from the Pharmacy and hung up on me. WIERD.
Posted by Claudiabfp at Mon Jun 5 07:52:55 2006

i got a text from nobody@sever.fahims.com and they were like (my name). you will fucking die tonight, fucker. later the number 000-000-0000 called me and someone was like "come outside" and hung up. this is really weird. by the way, this is like at 1 in the morning
Posted by xstreamblu at Sat Jun 10 00:59:04 2006

I too have recieved this phone call. in spanish, these people said 'termina manana'...in reference that my life should end tomorrow. i do understand spanish, although i am not spanish. these people must be 1.sick, or 2. bored. i never answered. and if they call again i will tell them whose life is about to end. it isn't mine.
Posted by kristina at Fri Jun 30 17:38:35 2006

I received 3 of the number 000-000-0000 on my caller ID. I called it back and an automated voice came on and said "If you know the persons' extention, please enter it now." I just hung up.
It is quite annoying gettings these phone calls.
Posted by deb at Sun Sep 17 18:33:21 2006

well how do you stop these calls?
Posted by JT at Wed Sep 20 06:59:41 2006

Well I googled the number 000-000-0000 also & got here....

I got like 12 of these today on my cell phone so I finally answered with a very LOUD "hello" & he said what sounded like "is Steward or Stupid there"....sounded something like that name....in any case he did ask for someone. I yelled "stop calling here" & he said "ugh" I think because I yelled so loud. Then I hung up. Let's see if he calls again after that...I will let you know.
Posted by cn at Thu Sep 21 17:09:57 2006

My sisters and I have been receving text messages from 000-000-0000. Weird messages..rhymes like "roses are red, violets are blue...." then the last line is always something about this persons ass...lol sounds funny but it's getting really annoying. Where in the world are these messages coming from???
Posted by jf at Wed Oct 4 19:42:22 2006

i too got a call from this number today, i missed the call but when i called it back the number didn't work, what is going on?
Posted by Janelle at Sat Oct 7 14:33:25 2006

i too am finding myself being called by this number. three times today on my cell, and i missed the call all three times. I too wondered about the sequence of 0's being a real number. after reading everyone's posts, let me tell you, if they call again, I WILL be giving them a piece of my mind. the calls are like almost exactly 2 hours apart, on the dot. it is definently creepy. and if they wake me up in the middle of the night, they will hear of things being done to them that they have never heard before, i guantee you that.
Posted by missyb at Tue Nov 21 18:09:24 2006

I've had two calls so far, one at 9:15 AM this morning and again at 11:50 AM.
I didn't pick up either time but the people didn't leave a message.
I too googled the number and came to this page...
I wonder if it's the same person or just random jerks?
I wish I could block the number!!
I've had this cellphone number for quite a few years now and nothing like this has ever happened. I wonder where they got it from?
Posted by Purple Lemon at Mon Nov 27 10:35:44 2006

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