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Just as with Email headers, caller ID can be spoofed. A friends son is
phonefreak and he occasionally calls me on his son's cell, it is IDed as
000-000-0000 and his home phone comes in as "No Body" at the same number.
No idea how he does it, but if that's the case, the Dell rep that said there
was no such offer could be correct. From the sound of it, if it's a scam,
when would the consumer catch on? Only after trying to get Dell to honor
the warranty and based on some of the experiences reported here that could
take a while due to the already declining level of support and the
outsourcing of the same. Mean while the scammers will have moved on to some
other brand of PCs customers to fleece.
Make sure that the entire number is correct. Some telephone scammers
went after the US Military, back when pagers were new. The targeted the
blocks of telephone numbers that the military had set up for their pagers.
Using a little human engineering they knew that no military officer would
fail to return a call to their branches career manger, so they set up a
series of phone banks on a matching exchange (same first the digits after
the area code, where ever they were available) as the various branches
career management offices. They then used an auto dialer system to call the
pager blocks and send their spoofed numbers. They had it all forwarded to a
1-900 number that charged $25.00 a minute to play a fake message about a
career advancement/enhancement program they were offering that sounded like
a military program until the end where it revealed that it was a for pay
seminar system. Long story short, when the telephone bills started coming
in all of the services JAGs got involved, as well as the US Attorney
General. The culprits almost pulled it off since there was a scarcity of
applicable law to cover the situation. They finally got hung out to dry
based on the fact that said program as advertised in their recording simply
did not exist. End result, everyone got the fraudulent charges dropped from
their phone bill and the scammers drew a couple of years in prison.
KC
"Dr. Joel M. Hoffman" <joel@exc.com> wrote in message
news:ilWHe.21985$Kx6.19628@fe12.lga...
> >The number is displayed with no other identification. So, there is no
way
> >to tell who is calling until you answer.
>
> I call Dell enough that I recognize 800-xxx-DELL as them, even when I
> can't remember what the "xxx" is....
>
> -Joel
>
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