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keb
5 years agoHelpful Neighbour
Scam Calls
Repeated early-morning VISA scam calls from boiler rooms in India.
This morning, I pushed the botton and spoke with "Sam". I gave him my usual advice about his pencil and what to do with it.
One ...
- 5 years ago
You will need to see if your provider offers a similar service to Telus' Call Control. If they don't then you'll have to make a choice. The scammers are calling from overseas using spoofed numbers. And yes the scammers do spoof caller ID so that they display numbers that actually exist but have no connection to them. Call blocking on your phone is useless if they simply change numbers and get through again.
A lot of scammers use VoIP services like TextNow that will give them a Canadian phone number and the ability to receive calls on it as well. Phone numbers are portable / transferrable these days so a number that was associated with one carrier can easily be changed to another. Telus very well may not even own the phone number any longer, if they ever did. YellowPages isn't an accurate resource in determining the ownership of a phone number. datacorelookup is also not accurate in the majority of phone numbers I tried looking up. They had the provider wrong in so many cases and in almost all cases they had the usage type wrong as well. I know a number of people using Shaw, Rogers or Bell for phone service and the websites all list those numbers as Telus. Neither website even indicates where they are getting the provider information from or how recently they got it.
xray
5 years agoHero
The datacore database you reference is unreliable.
I looked my TELUS number and it came up as Rogers.
keb
5 years agoHelpful Neighbour
(Ah yes, I have seen the edit function misused for that purpose elsewhere.)
I wouldn't put anything past Rogers! But probably also Telus. Devil and deep blue sea, fire and frying pan, has been my experience with telecom providers.
My number comes up as Rogers. So does my Zoomer phone, since Zoomer uses Rogers.
My mum's Rogers phone comes up as Bell -- which it originally was. I don't suppose yours used to be Rogers? 😉 My sister's Telus phone comes up as Telus ...
This question is probably exhausted now. Thanks, all. If I do receive a reply from Telus, I will report.
- keb5 years agoHelpful Neighbour
loosemeat, you were speaking to me? Maybe you would read my posts in this thread.
I wish everyone would do that, and note that I am not looking for any further information/advice/lectures here.
Thank you.
- loosemeat5 years agoAdvocate
Telus does not provide landline service in Ontario, so I'm not sure how that can be correct.
- keb5 years agoHelpful Neighbour
aaaargh. Google gave me the wrong number.
https://www.yellowpages.ca/fs/1-519-398-1988
519-398-1988 is a Landline phone number operated by TELUS Integrated Communications and is located in the city of Leamington in ON.
No info of number of searches. But: Telus.
I hope I'm finished posting and correcting now!
- keb5 years agoHelpful Neighbour
Here we go, the source I usually try to find:
https://www.yellowpages.ca/fs/1-519-398-8088
519-398-8088 is a Landline phone number operated by TELUS Integrated Communications and is located in the city of Leamington in ON. 519-398-8088 has been searched 157 times on YP.ca.
So to summarize:
- owned by Telus
- not spoofed
and awaiting reply from Telus. Until then, thanks!