11-Digit Phone Numbers
Posted January 21st, 2003 @ 09:19am by Erik J. Barzeski
A Slashdot article talks about the fact that New York City residents will soon be dialing 11 digits even to call their neighbors. Frankly, I couldn't care less, and I wish the phone systems of this country could simply settle on one darn standard.
Case in point: I'm in the 561 area code. To call my neighbors, I can dial 7 digits. To call some places in Broward County (954), I dial 7 digits: XXX-YYYY. To call some other places, I dial 954-XXX-YYYYY. And for still some others, I dial 10: 1-954-XXX-YYYY. No, the last two are not interchangeable. What's worse, the same freaking thing holds true for my own area code: 561. Some 7, some 10, some 11.
And of course, my cell phone behaves differently, and tends to "just work" far more frequently. And I never need the 1.
Posted 19 Oct 2006 at 6:18pm #
I got a text message from a 11 digit number but the first number doesn't start with 1 it is a 9. I can't call the number or text back. The date of the message freaked me out it said 12/31/36. What does this mean please help figure it out. It has bothered me for awhile I have to find out what it means.
Posted 12 Apr 2007 at 10:50am #
The same thing happened to me. Actually today, i recieved two calls from an eleven digit number with the first digit being a nine. When i tried to find out who the mystery caller was, it wouldnt let me return the call. Later, they called back but i was unable to reach the phone in time to pick it up. I really dont know who this is or why i cant call them back. Nothing freaky about the day it happened. I really want to figure out this situation.Please respond and help me out. What was ur number? Mine was 947-777-06779.
Posted 22 Sep 2007 at 10:10am #
That happened to me too last night. I got a phone call at 3:59 am on my cell. I was asleep and thought it was my alarm clock so I turned it off. When I woke up, I tried to research the number and noticed it was an 11-digit phone number and that the first 3 numbers are a non-existent area code. Since I couldn't find any info on the number I tried redialing it but it doesn't go through. Mine didn't start with a 9 though, this is the # that called me: 277-412-37000. Did you ever find out anything about your caller?
Posted 23 Sep 2007 at 4:18pm #
no i never found out who called me but they never called again but calling three times in like two days it what i thought was werid i think its werid they can call but u cant call them werid i hope you find who called u
Posted 20 Oct 2007 at 8:52pm #
This has happened to me today. I got a call from what started out as a Louisville number (I live in Lexington) and so it seemed normal. I missed 15 calls while I was at work today on my cell from this number. Then I received 10 more this afternoon, and answered each one, but no one said anything. Sometimes it shows up restricted, other times with this strange number. I called my cell phone company and they don't know and I called the police and they said it's up to my phone company. I'm so freaked because they've called so many times. Please let me know what this is if you've figured it out. I will do the same if I find out anything.
Posted 08 Jan 2008 at 12:39am #
I got a call from an eleven digit number! It was 976-996-39997
FREAKY.
Posted 10 Jan 2008 at 5:54pm #
I got a call from an 11 digit number earlier today, it was 849-324-17355. i answered and couldn't understand a thing being said. so i hung up. it was pretty weird
Posted 23 Feb 2008 at 4:02pm #
I have been getting similar calls to that, but from 9 Digit numbers. Same deal, They can call me, but I cant call them back. I did catch one of them one day, because I was tired of getting called, and it was a woman with a very very heavy accent.
Posted 09 Mar 2008 at 5:00pm #
This might have something to do with this, I'm not sure. I have been trying to dodge phone calls from my estranged mexican father for months. The last time I talked to him, he claimed that he was going to illegally enter the US through the canadian border, but I don't know if he has or not. I don't know how their phone numbers work nor if he has a canadian phone card nor pre-paid phone. All I know is that I've been getting phone calls from a 255 348 03277 number, also 200 000 00000 number and also a (no number) calls.
Posted 04 Apr 2008 at 1:43pm #
Ok, I've done alot of research on this. 2 days ago I started receiving calls from (252)155-54691. I've been receiving between 20-30 calls a night from about 9pm to 9am. At least 1 every hour and between certain hours 5-6 in one hour. I answer the phone as soon as it rings and get nothing. The call is disconnected as soon as I answer. Most of them don't even appear in my call history. Calling my wireless provider they told me that I did not receive any calls during the night. And the only ones I did receive came from my own phone.... I don't know how that is possible because when I dial my own number it goes to my voicemail. WTF is this? Aliens? Hackers? International phone terrorists? Anyone have an answer?
Posted 05 Apr 2008 at 6:24am #
It is Mexico, or another foreign country. My wireless provider will not explain it, it doesn't show up for them. The calls will not stop. I switched phone numbers. I am the same girl who wrote back in October. I really recommend changing your number. It won't stop until then.
Posted 30 Apr 2008 at 5:52pm #
It happened to me as well. Here are all the numbers that were on my caller id.
502 419 94478
502 511 99519
502 511 81268
502 413 53394
I did pick up the phone once and they were speaking Spanish; I asked them not to call back (in Spanish), but calls keep coming.
Posted 01 May 2008 at 7:51am #
Jin,
Some of those numbers called me too. Switch your number. It's easier...
Posted 19 May 2008 at 1:04pm #
I just got a call today ant 9:32 am from 56984488162. I answered and it was man with a mild accent. We said hello a few times and then he said "Oh sorry" and hung up. Then he called back two minutes later!! But I let it go to voicemail because I got kind of scared.
Has anyone received a call from this number??? This kind of freaked me out... And I really don't want to change my number. I've read all of the comments and it seems like they aren't interested in anything. None of them are asking for information and none of them are selling anything. Well, from what I've read. Have any of you spoke to them?? What are they saying?? Does anyone know what they want?? I mean, what's the reason for the calls??? To be annoying? Who has all this time to call random people all day and how did they get our numbers??? I'm very bothered by this. I never knew 11 digits could freak me out so much! lol 
Posted 22 May 2008 at 2:42pm #
5 get calls with the extra digit all the time--from telemarketers trying to either give me a better rate on my credit cards or sell me an extended warranty on my vehicle--I am on the do not call list and I have tried several time to ask my number to be removed from thei list--usually I get hung up on before I can finish
Posted 28 May 2008 at 7:04pm #
I got a call from an 11 digit number beginning with 348026449458 I don't know where it is from and they called 3 times in a row...weird and freaky.
Posted 02 Jun 2008 at 12:18pm #
I am so glad I found all of you! I have been getting calls JUST LIKE THIS and thought I was alone!
Mine are from 506-222-74422. I regularly answer and tell them to stop calling in both Spanish and English and all I ever get is either silence or random heavily accented Spanish and then they hang up. And then they call again. And again. And again. Usually I get calls on Sundays. I recently went a few weeks without any calls, but I JUST got one at noon today and did not answer.
I'm glad I didn't waste my time with Verizon trying to figure it out, I'm sure it'd be more of what all of you went through. Thanks for sharing and I hope someone figures out this madness! It is annoying and I'm not changing my number.
Posted 03 Jun 2008 at 7:21pm #
I got a 371-670-58070 call today, I was trying to find out where it came from.... And I have no idea.... It doesn't realy match the Area Codes I've found. The closest one was the Northern Marania Islands or whatever they are called, south of Japan.
Posted 11 Jun 2008 at 5:02pm #
I got a call today like this, from 506-220-77586.
I didn't answer though. I'm the type that never answers unless I know who is calling.
No one should be calling my cell unless I've given them the number in the first place, which means they are in my contact list.
Posted 12 Jun 2008 at 3:43pm #
I got 2 calls today- one right after another, like many of you have mentioned. Very weird...the number was the same number twice...
467-341-85741... I didn't answer- just sent them to voicemail. Very strange.
Posted 16 Jun 2008 at 10:14pm #
My son had the same thing happen to him. The number on his phone was 502-417-09797. I searched the web for international area codes and found a site that gave me an answer. His calls originated from Guatemala. Obviously a wrong number.
Posted 28 Jun 2008 at 12:57pm #
I'm getting it too. Are all of you with Verizon Wireless? The first time it happened (several months ago) we called Verizon and they blocked the 11 digit number. It just started happening again with a different 11 digit number. Verizon say they can't block more than one number at a time (until July 9th for some strange reason...but they're going to charge us). I don't want to change my number. Is this just Verizon or are other companies experiencing the mysterious 11 digit dialers?
Posted 29 Jun 2008 at 11:09am #
These are calls from Nigerian 419 scammers. Trying to bilk you out of money I know because I am baiting a scammer as we speak
Posted 04 Jul 2008 at 10:15am #
I found out who my 11 digit phone number was from...
My brother in Bahrain called me with an 11 digit phone number. i was scared to answer it at first cause it was 11 digits, but he left me a voicemail and was going to call me later....
Posted 09 Jul 2008 at 11:10am #
Jin said on April 30, 2008:
ha oh yeah! I live in naples fl and i keep getting a call from either 504 or 502 and sometimes 506 but the person is always speaking spanish when ever they do decide to talk and even if you tell them to not call back they do. also, for some reason you can't call the numbers back from the cell phone but if i call from a land line it'll go through but it just rings and rings until voice mail picks up. or one time my husband went to call the number back right after they called and the number was out of service..like non existent. this is some freaky crap...and quite irritating!
Posted 11 Jul 2008 at 9:31pm #
Ive been getting calls from 849-136-58484 for a few months
they only left 1 message and it was incomprehensible. I never answer it. problem is those 2am calls.
Posted 14 Jul 2008 at 2:17pm #
I have gotten a few 11 digit phone calls from a 506 number...I am also a Verizon customer...
Posted 14 Jul 2008 at 10:22pm #
i had a call from 502 422 30492 to my cell phone
call duration was only 10 seconds with no response to me saying hello.
second time was a 2 days but only 7 seconds.
i didnt pay it any mind that the number was that long until a few days later after the second call.
Posted 20 Jul 2008 at 12:08am #
I got a call from an 11 digit that started with 506--looking on a map that is an area code for new brunswick. I don't know why it's 11 digits, but the poster who mentioned phone cards makes sense. Those of you who are freaked out should see a professional about your paranoia--except for Kari who had the year 2036 on her text. Even I am freaked out about that
Posted 02 Aug 2008 at 10:28am #
A tip for those that don't want to change their phone number:
Put the mystery caller's phone number into your contact list and set the ringer to none/silent. Voila - no more irritating multiple rings, or calls waking you in the middle of the night.
I've done this in the past for persistant callers I no longer will speak with, and for my mystery 502 caller.
Posted 06 Aug 2008 at 6:08pm #
ME TOO! I AM A T-MOBILE NUMBER (OHIO) TODAY GOT MY FIRST 11DIGIT CALL THE # WAS 50622968271 ANSWERED IT AND IT HUNG UP! SO DOES ANYONE ACTUALLY KNOW FOR SURE, IS IT MEXICO OR NIGIRA?
Posted 07 Aug 2008 at 4:33pm #
This is the number that i get calls from 61390015770 and no one replies when i answer. i am so annoyed.
Posted 10 Aug 2008 at 3:50pm #
Well this is a very strange situation. I do live in Ohio and I have verizon. The numbers I have been getting are from
August 1st, 506-220-01380, 11:24 am
August 8th, 506-229-30654, 01:14 pm
My phone has been currently disconnected before I got these calls.
"Area code 506 is the telephone area code in the Canadian province of New Brunswick, encompassing the whole province.
The incumbent local exchange carrier in 506 is Aliant (part of the Bell Aliant income trust), which was produced from a merger that included NBTel. Since 2005, local telephone service through Eastlink Communications has also been available in the town of Sackville.
Additionally, +506 refers to the international access code to Costa Rica's telephone numbers."
This coming from wikipedia. I am not sure what any of this means but they left a voicemail but I can't listen to it.
Posted 11 Aug 2008 at 12:23pm #
Hey folks. I live in Baton Rouge, and this morning I began receiving these bizarre, 11-digit, calls to my cell. The number identified on caller ID was (506) 228-40346. I too would like to know the origin of these calls and their purpose.
Posted 12 Aug 2008 at 11:51am #
I'm a Verizon Wireless customer and have gotten 2 calls within the last couple of weeks from: 50622153718. I called it back from my cell and got an illegible fast-paced, chipmunk-sounding recording. I called from my land-line and a British woman's voice explained that the number is not assigned, then said it in French.
Posted 12 Aug 2008 at 12:34pm #
Millions of mobile phone users are being subjected to a new wave of money making scams currently being carried out by a number of rouge agents set on taking advantage on the curiosity of the individuals they target.
The "Missed Call" scam is very basic and extremely effective, dependant on no more than a return call from those mobile phone users trusting enough to believe that someone is trying to contact them for genuine reasons.
So how does it work? � A computer is set up to pick numbers from a list and calls them automatically. After one ring the computer hangs up and the targeted handset indicates that a call has been missed. At this point completion of the scam relies on the owner of the mobile phone returning the call shown as missed on his/her handset.
Curiosity is the key factor on which the success of this scam has been based, and the scammers know that a large percentage of phone users will almost always return a missed call simply to find out the origin and purpose of it.
On returning the call, the owner of the targeted mobile phone is redirected to a premium rate telephone service and increasingly without his/her knowledge. The scammers then take this opportunity and ensure that the maximum amount of money is made from the call by entering into a lengthy conversation, generally relating to some bogus prize or competition.
Often, it is not until the monthly statement arrives that the targeted individual realises that his/her phone has been subjected to a "Missed Call" scam and charged excessive rates for the privilege.
Posted 12 Aug 2008 at 4:53pm #
Grrr...I just got one that was 506-228-85948, and I am not verizon, Im with cellcom. I didnt answer it, but Im very curious as to who it would be...I am on the no call list.
Posted 12 Aug 2008 at 7:00pm #
Hi I got a call from a +50622422144 and I answered it. It was a recording to reduce your credit card interest rates. If you want to reduce your interest rates push 1, so I did so I could tell them not to call me at all. A man with a heavy accent answered and said "did you push 1?" I said "Yes, to tell you to take my number off your list" and he hung up without saying anything. I tried calling back but my phone said it was an international call. I searched for the country code and found that 506 is for Costa Rica. My phone service is with At&t.
Posted 12 Aug 2008 at 9:32pm #
I am glad I am not the only one with this situation. About an hour ago I received a miss called from 506-225-37618. I googled it a bit before finding this and it did say something about 11-digit phones numbers coming from other countries. Like someone else, I saw that it may have come from New Brunswick, Canada because the area code is 506. As far as U.S. area codes go, I believe 506 showed up for either Arkansas or South Dakota.. with the experiences I have read on this page, I doubt the number originates from the U.S.
I didn't try to call the number back, but I did send a text to the number. It seems to have gone through, but I didn't get any automatic messages back saying it was out of service or a landline.. Since I use Verizon, that normally happens. The person who posted something about the "missed call scam"- I wonder if they have any official information on this, or where they gathered it from? Surely by now the phone companies should be able to provide some information on this situation, if it's more than several people. Unless, of course, they are somehow at fault either being unable to prevent it or unable to stop it?
Posted 14 Aug 2008 at 12:27pm #
I also just recieved a call from a 506#. If anyone can figure this out, please let me know. The number was 506 229 60159.
Posted 14 Aug 2008 at 4:49pm #
I've been getting these too! I finally picked up and it was a "credit service" wanting to know if I wanted my interest rate lowered. So I pressed 1 was connected to Dave who would not identify what credit service he represented and went into his spiel..when i asked him how he can tell my credit payment history from my phone number, he asked me for my social security# yea I dont think so..i asked to be removed from his call list and hung up. Upon calling my wireless carrier to complain about this, I was told to put my number on the http://www.donotcall.gov. I explained that it was , then he gave me an option of paying $4.99 a month to get the block number option put onto my phone Seems like you have to pay a price for piece of mind huh? so if you get 506-220-42711 or 506-223-01621 its a scam.
Posted 14 Aug 2008 at 4:52pm #
Started getting 506 numbers a few days ago. Just got a call about 20 mins ago. Sounds like a scam. I have Sprint and usually it'll show me where the calls are coming from, like what state. No such thing with these numbers. I don't care to know who's on the other side of these calls. I just better not be charged for any of them. Changing my number might be an option if it continues. Here are the numbers I'm getting:
506 228 44454
560 229 37755
Them seem to always have repeating numbers...hmm...
Posted 14 Aug 2008 at 8:36pm #
I got a call from a # that was 01150622550239. Is that the same thing as being called from those scammers? I have never seen a phone # using so many digits. If anyone has any information that would let me know who or what this may be, I would really appreciate it. I have not tried calling the back number back nor do I intend to call it back but I am curious of who or what it may be.
Posted 15 Aug 2008 at 4:39pm #
I received a call on my home phone, not a cell phone. It was from 5-062-243-2784. Notice the extra digit just like all the other messages here. My caller ID said "out of area".
I don't answer numbers that I don't recognize. I wait for them to leave a message and either pick up or erase the message.
I tried to call the number but it said it was not in service! How could a number not be in service if it called someone!??
I have searched online and aside from this log, I haven't found much. I've tried listing it different ways without the extra digit with no luck.
There are spammer sites where you can report telemarketers and such and add your comments. If you want one, it's http://www.spamfilter.com .
I don't think this is any kind of "other worldly thing" or a conspiracy thing going on here. I believe it has to be telemarketers or collection agencies or someone trying to sell something. I just wish there was more information about it somewhere. It is annoying at the most.
Posted 15 Aug 2008 at 8:03pm #
I just got 2 calls in the course of 4 hours that had 11 digits in them. I was never planning to call them back, but just struck my curiousity to see what was going on with them. I've got an AT&T Cell phone, and will check with them to see if there were any additional charges added the bill for these calls. I had two different numbers... +50622159512 and +50622545420.
Posted 17 Aug 2008 at 8:56pm #
Eric-
I got a call from the same number 50622545420 on the same day...mine happened at 6:37PM eastern time. Any word on who it was?
Posted 18 Aug 2008 at 2:27am #
I recieved a call on aug15 506-227-11187. I am also with verizon. I am wondering if possibly verizons records got into the hands of a bad employee and then they sold the numbers to scammers or whatever. I work at a bank and hear about all kinds of scams. wierd as hell. the day i got the call i was at work so i didnt answer i didnt actually realize it was a 11digit number til about 15 mins ago. id been trying to call the number back with my number blocked for the past few days but only included two of the numbers 1 in the number that i called and got sent to a voicemail. then when i noticed it was 11 i got online and checked it out on google. i have found any info except for ur guys posting on here. ill let u know if i find anything else out. i tried to call it with the 11 digits and it got a message from verizon. this stuff is pretty wierd. i wonder if they'll call agian. at first i thought it was a bill collector cause ive gotten phone calls from odd numbers from them but this obviously isnt that.
Posted 18 Aug 2008 at 6:22pm #
This just happened to me as well, first time though. I never answer if I don't recognize the number.
I'm not with Verizon though, I'm an Alltel customer in North Carolina. First I got a call from "UNAVAILABLE". I've never had one of those. Sometimes I get a wrong number that says "Private" or "Unknown", but never an "UNAVAILABLE". I didn't answer, and then immediately I get a call from 506-220-75774.
Hasn't called again yet.
Posted 18 Aug 2008 at 11:55pm #
I just this second got one from 796-212-61317. I answered and they were talking in russian. I started talking back in spanish and they switched to english and said "hey tonya", but when I switched to english they switched back to russian and then hung up. No idea crazy shit though, glad I'm not the only one. I was texting my ex and got the call so I figured it was her bf gettin mad.
Posted 19 Aug 2008 at 6:56pm #
My mom has been getting these calls. I am 10 years old and my mom said it could be people trying to link their phone bills or whatever onto your phone, so you guys should be really careful. and of course it could be some stupid kids trying to prank you. When i get a number that is wrong i just say wrong number and hang up. But today my mom was talking to someone, and all of a sudden she couldn't hear anything but then she heard a mans voice then the call just hung up. weird weird weird.
The best thing to do is just not answer it and delete all voice messages.
Posted 19 Aug 2008 at 8:36pm #
I have been getting 11 digit phone calls on my cell phone as well as my home phone.
I done a reverse number look up in canada..
The number 506 22882181 comes from
Baie-Sainte Anne, Nb, NB
But that is not to say that there isn't another place who has a 506 area code with 11 digits in their number.
Posted 20 Aug 2008 at 3:23pm #
i just got one - 506 222 3 8716
i really want to figure out who it is
Posted 20 Aug 2008 at 3:25pm #
just adding to the convo:
+506-224-25436
506-229-37755
+506-229-37755
Location: Ohio
Carrier: Cincinnati Bell
Posted 21 Aug 2008 at 12:49pm #
I got one of these calls a few weeks ago and thought nothing of it. I didn't pay attention to the number. But yesterday I received another one from 506-223-69028. I didnt realize the number had 11 digits before I answered. It was one of the card services scams and I pressed 1 to ask for them to remove me again. When I did, the operator hung up on me. I tried calling it back and that was when I realized it was 11 digits. The call doesn't go through. I did a bit of research and it appeared it could have been a Costa Rica number as 506 is their international code. I got worried and called my phone provider and was told as long as it was incoming, if it were from another country, I would not be charged. Customer only gets charged for outgoing international calls. So, I'm still researching because it makes me so angry that these people do this constantly and there is no way to trace them or make it stop. From what I have read elsewhere, there is a way they are making these phone numbers show up so it cannot be traced...so it may not even be in the area of what your phone says.
Posted 21 Aug 2008 at 1:50pm #
20181411405 is the number I keep getting I am a verizon customer and I live in oregon. There is no way that this is a telescam because they dont answer to sell me anything.
Posted 22 Aug 2008 at 8:34am #
Like another poster above, I don't give my cell number out to anyone I don't want calling me. I have received a few of these calls on my cell recently. Two showed up as "Private". In the past, the only time a number ever showed up as "private", it was my ex calling. We have been broken up for some time and he has called since then, so when a "private" call came in the first time a few weeks ago, I did not answer. When another came the following day, I answered just to tell him not to call me anymore. It was, instead, a woman speaking in a very strange Spanish accent. My ex is Mexican, so I assumed this still had something to do with him. Now I'm getting these 11-digit numbers coming in. This is the third that I've received in the last week. (Really annoying because the 4 of the total of 5 calls were in the middle of the night.) I considered calling the number back-which is when I discovered the 11-digits. I immediately thought phone scam.
I remember the scam from many years back about phone companies in the US switching your phone service on you without you being aware until you got the bill. ( That scam has been stopped by new phone laws. ) I wondered what was going on this time. I did a Google search on 11-digit phone numbers and came up with this site. Good to have some info finally.
I think Joe's post from Aug. 12 above is right. Do not call the number back. I'm not sure how to stop the calls but the poster that suggested putting the number into you contact list and programming the ringer to be silent when it comes in is probably a good idea just to avoid the annoying 3am calls.
BTW- my service in not with Verizon or any of the others mentioned here, so don't think if you just switch to another carrier, the calls will stop. Changing your number may work, but for how long? And what a pain. And they do not come from just 506. Mine are coming from 849-377-56159. I noticed someone else here that received an 849 call. My guess is that the numbers are not coming from all these different countries (Canada, Nigeria, an island off of Japan, Costa Rica...) It is more likely a computer system that is re-routing these calls. You can make a call look like it's coming from anywhere.
You can bet, I'm going to be doing more research on this. And I'll be telling everyone I know (unless I don't like them) about this scam.
Posted 22 Aug 2008 at 1:55pm #
I got 3 calls from "unavailable" this week, one each day, and when I finally answered, the caller asked for a person I'd never heard of (in a spanish accent)...I said it was a wrong number, and to stop calling. I didnt think too much of it.
Today I got a call from 506-227-56762. I havent called it back, and can only find the info I've found on this website...I just wondered if the "unavailable" calls were related to the crazy 11-digit call. No answers, just thought I'd share. Very weird.
Posted 22 Aug 2008 at 3:18pm #
I got a "RESTRICTED" call yesterday, which I have never had before. Today, sure enough I got a call from a 506 area code phone number with an extra digit. Neither call resulted in a voicemail. It seems there is definitely a correlation between the blocked Caller ID and the 11 digit number. Is everyone that is getting these calls on the do not call registry? I signed my cell phone number up on it a while ago and have never had a problem with telemarketers.
Posted 25 Aug 2008 at 4:59pm #
I also got a call from an 11 digit number with a 506 beginning. No message was left, and I found this site before I called back. I am also on the Do Not Call registry, but I recently ordered some items from various vendors online for the first time. I wonder if there is a connection. The DNC registry would not apply for vendors with whom you have some sort of business already. Have any of you recently done business with a company right before you received these calls?
Posted 26 Aug 2008 at 8:44pm #
got a call from :
+50622764211
glad i found other people with this , guess its just scammers and i will not be calling back. thanks everyone
Posted 26 Aug 2008 at 9:18pm #
I recd 2 of these calls today, both listed at 1:22 pm. I do not answer my phone @ work so didn't have the chance to answer. Both calls came from 506-228-14178.
There has to be some way of guarding against this type of garbage. It kinda puts you in mind of the 'spammers' who constantly try to flood your e-mails with cookies/hijackers, etc. Some people have waayyy too much time on their hands!
I am an Alltell customer in Wyoming. I am on the do not call list and I give my cell# to no one other than family. Changing your number is really a pain and bottom-line, we shouldn't have to
Posted 27 Aug 2008 at 7:57pm #
I do business with a few vendors online but none of them EVER get my cell#. I don't give it out to anyone for that purpose.
Posted 27 Aug 2008 at 9:04pm #
So glad I found this thread. Just got two calls in a row (I ignored the first and 10 seconds later the phone started ringing again from the same number), no voicemails. The number was 5-062-282-8337. Thanks to all of the above posts I definitely won't be answering if they call again.
Posted 28 Aug 2008 at 4:26pm #
Here's a new one. I got a call yesterday from a 1-0 number. I didn't catch the whole thing before my caller ID display faded out. This one came to my work. I've been really aware of these calls since finding this site and have made it a regular habit to check the caller ID on my work phone. We have gotten a zillion 5-0whatever numbers but this time it was something like 10x-xxx-xxxx. Are there US area codes that begin with 1? I didn't check the caller ID until after I had answered this time. It was someone speaking in a heavy accent and didn't seem to be a customer so I hung up on them. I'm getting paranoid now.
Posted 29 Aug 2008 at 7:27pm #
I have been getting phone calls from 11 digit numbers for a while now... only four total, but they've been spread out over the past few months. The first time I chalked it up to a wrong number from another country and deleted it.
But the second time was Aug 14 3:39pm from 506-225-97833
And today was the third and fourth time Aug 29 9:59am and 10:00am from 506-223-80940
I don't answer numbers I don't know as many of the previous posters. But it is a pain to get a phone call during the day and thinking it is something important, only to find it is just someone trying to waste my time.
I am also with Verizon, and it troubles me that so many more Verizon customers seem to have this problem in comparison to other providers. Seems a bit odd, don't you think?
Posted 31 Aug 2008 at 11:15am #
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_country_calling_codes
Note the code for the US is 1, so it's possible that someone in a foreign country has accidentally added or removed a digit from the number they wanted to call, and ended up dialing the USA When dialing from your mobile phone, you usually only have to add a + in front of the number for it to dial internationally..
Caller ID numbers generally ARRIVE at your (US) phone with the 1 in place, but the phone knows to strip em off, as people are easily confused.
Calls from overseas retain the full number complete with country code.
Be not afraid, these scary foreign voices on the phone mean you no harm. They are just as bewildered.
Posted 31 Aug 2008 at 2:32pm #
I got 6 calls this morning on my cell phone(unlisted gov. number)
Same 11 digit number each time, 316 454-93046.
I've been looking for a site that can tell me where it originated from,but have been unable to trace this number.
If the 316 is an area code then it comes from Langfang China or Whitchita, Kansas.
Posted 01 Sep 2008 at 2:36pm #
So glad I found this website! I just received one those 11 digit numbers and like I do with all numbers I don't recognize, I head for the Net. I have TMobile and have only received one other of these type of calls months ago. Here's another one to add to the list: 50622835793. I'm also on the DNC list.
Posted 03 Sep 2008 at 2:13pm #
I just received a call from 506-225-71688 but didn't answer. I saw that some people who answered said that it played a message asking if they wanted their credit card rates lowered. Yesterday I received a call from a local number, 302-703-3000, but the caller ID said "INTL. NUMBER" (international number maybe?). The message said press 1 to lower credit card rates and press 2 to remove your name from the list. I pressed 2. I'm assuming that this call was from the same caller as the 11 digit one, but I wonder how they were able to make the first phone call come up as a local number. This was not on my cell but my landline which is Comcast.