Re: Spam Phone Call

Well, caller ID Spoofing is a federal crime (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caller_ID_spoofing ) but I wouldn't expect Los
Federales to devote too much attention to it unless it led to actual
fraud/loss. They're simply too understaffed & overburdened to go after the
small fish in the pond.

On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 7:53 AM, Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

I would call the local FBI office and let them deal with it. They can
find the origin of the phone call by pulling the appropriate records.
(assumes approval by a judge) More importantly, if they get a number
of these complaints, they correlate the data and get after the source.
FCC does not have the type of law enforcement arm to deal with this.

Jim Oberholtzer
CEO/Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects, LLC


On 3/28/2011 6:55 AM, Jerry C. Adams wrote:

All of us have, probably, gotten emails that claim our bank account has

been

shutdown for one reason or another, and that we need to log in to

reactivate

it. Often it references a ban at which we do not even have an account.

I

know I get at least one of these every week.



Well, this weekend I got a call on my cell phone during which an

obviously

pre-recorded message said that my credit union account was shutdown. As

you

might guess, I don't have such an account. Another strange thing about

the

call is that the caller id was simply "2000", not an area code and

phone#,

which usually displays for a caller unknown to me.



Just wondered if anyone else has encountered this sort of thing, and what
the proper, recommended response would be. I thought about filing a
complaint with the FCC, but what information would I be able to give

them?

The call is still on my "Recent Calls" log, but again all it says is

"2000".

Thanks.



Jerry C. Adams

IBM i Programmer/Analys

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