UPDATE Jun 2007: There’s a page about this number at whocalled.us with 80 comments. A comment there written by “GL” sums up the situation – I can’t link directly to the comment so here it is:
[this] number is associated to a leg of VOIP termination provided by more than one wholesale VOIP providers.
Given how the terminating networks are overlaid and at times spliced together, it’s nearly impossible to be sure who actually holds the DiD and the info wouldn’t be very helpful if you had it, in terms of tracking the actual caller, unless you have subpoena powers.
It might be a TDM circuit billing identifier.
I’ve seen it previously with a Vonage outbound call, others have reported it with Skype. I ran the search today because it appeared in my call log as the ‘caller id’ on a VOIP test call between a Covad line and a Vonage line.
The only thing you can be really sure of – if you see this number 416 364 1111, the caller is using a commercial VOIP service to access the PSTN.
Long story short: if this come up on your Caller ID, there’s no telling who it is – though a bunch of shady characters do seem to be coming out of it.
End update.
Loyal readers might remember that I built myself a telezapper to eliminate phone calls from unwanted people and companies.
Back in November, I got my first weird call from this phone number: 416-364-1111. It was your typical “dead air” caller which means telemarketer. See, they use computers to pre-dial numbers from their database, and then when someone picks up they’ll connect that line to the next available phone rep’s line. But sometimes the computer gets ahead of the people and you might end up waiting 10 or more seconds before being connected. That’s what these jerks seem to be up to, but all the time. I’ve never gotten a real person on the other end. So I added them to my ‘zapper list but they just keep calling – they’ve called four times this month alone. Now I’m posting this and hopefully other peopple will find this page and maybe tell me who these jerks are.
