Forum Overview :: Tansin A. Darcos's Alter Ego :: Are they kidding me?

[quote name="Commander Tansin A. Darcos"]I got a call from a company named 5 Points Capital, or something like that. But what surprised me was their phone number. 818 092 4100. First, 818 is a legitimate area code, it's the Simi Valley part of Los Angeles County in California. But for those of you outside of North America, 092 is a fake prefix, faker than 555. Real phone numbers in North America cannot start with 0 or 1, (a requirement since about 1947) in fact the only way you can have a number like that generated for caller ID is that you own your own PBX switch and you programmed it to do that. So the point being, why does a company think that if it lies about its return phone number expect me to be willing to do business with it? And not just that they use a fake number, but that they use an obvious fake number. If they don't even want people to know what their phone number is, do I really want to do business with it? [/quote]