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   From: trminlxGARBAGE@bitstreamnet.com   
      
   In article <1ca2xtus54xbb.f8e57s9u61x4.dlg@40tude.net>,   
    "Neowulf (Aaron VonDerheide)"    
    wrote:   
      
   > A phone scammer called me last night trying to get me to "donate" money to   
   > his "charity", and I'd really like to be able to give his phone number to   
   > the cops. Is that realistic?   
   >   
   > Aaron   
      
   you can request a trace from your telephone co. but most likely they   
   will deny it unless you are being harrased and/or threatened. It's   
   actually difficult for even large corporations to get trace's done to a   
   number (I know, it's part of what I spend my time arguing with telco's   
   over at work).   
      
   but .. all numbers are logged in the Frame as like the internet there   
   has to be two addresses logged for two way communication and your   
   telephone number is that address for voice comm. Just because you can't   
   see it doesn't mean it's not there. To get it to show up you'd most   
   likely have to hack the frame itself (good luck) for the info while the   
   call is in progress.   
      
   the most common reason that an CID doesn't read a number is that one   
   telco doesn't pass the number onto the other telco for CID, only for   
   purposes of making the connection. I do know that many of the Telco's   
   will block their own internal numbers from coming up on CID and instead   
   will read something like "QWEST" or "AT&T" (those are the most common   
   ones I come across) and if the call is, say, coming from one of those   
   internal addresses (Telco's will adopt an entire exchange (second three   
   digits after the area) for themselves on occasion), via a phreak then it   
   may not show up on CID at all.   
      
   There's no real way around it except to not answer your phone. And   
   incidentally the police won't help you either because it's not illegal   
   to ask for your money in and of itself, once you're scammed however then   
   fraud may come into play and then the police might listen.   
      
      
   ghost   
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