Phone number lookup

[4WD]

Like clockwork when I place an order from Walmart.com … here comes the text that I won a $1000 gift card … oh, and of course it has a link they hope you click on.
This one from the San Diego region. Nothing Googles up with the phone number.
I also get lots of random calls and block them … but I recently blocked a good caller.
Does anyone here use a reverse lookup site ? If so, do they work and which is better.

 

[dogememe]

Most of those sites are BS. And the phone numbers are spoofed by the spammers/scammers anyway so looking up the phone number isn't going to do you any good because it'll come back to a real person or business, but they have nothing to do with it.

 

[pitzel]

Because the telephone industry didn't keep their systems closed or secure, basically anyone with a reasonable amount of tech savvy can make "caller ID" display anything they want as a number lookup.

Its really unfortunate, but telecom is one of those areas in which deregulation really went too far, and ruined what was a reasonable "jewel" of a secure system.

 

[Hall]

Good luck attempting to block callers/numbers. They almost always use random phone number generators.

My wife and I have ordered a few things from walmart.com and never gotten "spam", FWIW. Are you buying it from 3rd-party sellers who use Walmart's marketplace ?

 

[dogememe]

Originally Posted by pitzel
Because the telephone industry didn't keep their systems closed or secure, basically anyone with a reasonable amount of tech savvy can make "caller ID" display anything they want as a number lookup.

Its really unfortunate, but telecom is one of those areas in which deregulation really went too far, and ruined what was a reasonable "jewel" of a secure system.


who needs tech savvy lol you can download free apps in the app store to do that

 

[4WD]

They were Rollback items … so figure that's direct ? (Techron Marine multi purpose)
Walmart box and tape.

 

[Hall]

Rollbacks are most likely from Walmart, yeah. Not sure why you get that spam then....

 

[Kestas]

Probably happenstance. For a while I was getting spam calls around three times a day, for around three weeks, then it suddenly stopped.

 

[02SE]

I especially like when the idiot scammers call me, with my own name and phone number in the caller ID. Apparently they're not even bright enough to enter a different name and number into the phony caller ID.

 

[Onetor]

Try Spokeo