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Subject: Caller ID "Unknown" or "Toll Free Number" calls
Written By: 80s_cheerleader on 02/26/07 at 12:18 pm
Just found something neat after I googled a "toll-free number" call on my caller ID:
http://whocalled.us/
You can put the number in and it tells you who it is. I went back through my caller ID and put in a few numbers that have called me recently so I now know who they are ;)
Subject: Re: Caller ID "Unknown" or "Toll Free Number" calls
Written By: nally on 02/26/07 at 12:21 pm
That's interesting! :D
Just for the fun of it, I clicked on that site and typed in "867-5309", and here's what it brought up:
Who CalledCaller IDDate
JennyA Good Time1981-02-07
jennyjust numbers2007-02-05
JennyJenny Jenny2006-07-06
Jenny?1988-12-31
Subject: Re: Caller ID "Unknown" or "Toll Free Number" calls
Written By: Howard on 02/26/07 at 5:09 pm
How does this work?
Subject: Re: Caller ID "Unknown" or "Toll Free Number" calls
Written By: nally on 02/26/07 at 8:06 pm
How does this work?
You simply click on the site (http://whocalled.us/), type any phone # in the Phone Number text box, and then click the "Lookup" button below. Then it'll tell you who called, and the alleged caller ID.
Subject: Re: Caller ID "Unknown" or "Toll Free Number" calls
Written By: Miss Anthrope on 02/26/07 at 8:09 pm
A thousand thank yous! I have privacy manager, and sitll the calls come....I can save some buckage is this works! Yay! :)
Subject: Re: Caller ID "Unknown" or "Toll Free Number" calls
Written By: 80s_cheerleader on 02/26/07 at 8:50 pm
A thousand thank yous! I have privacy manager, and sitll the calls come....I can save some buckage is this works! Yay! :)
Well, with privacy manager, most of these won't even go through......I miss privacy manager :(
Subject: Re: Caller ID "Unknown" or "Toll Free Number" calls
Written By: whistledog on 02/26/07 at 9:47 pm
That's interesting! :D
Just for the fun of it, I clicked on that site and typed in "867-5309", and here's what it brought up:
Who CalledCaller IDDate
JennyA Good Time1981-02-07
jennyjust numbers2007-02-05
JennyJenny Jenny2006-07-06
Jenny?1988-12-31
It doesn't work with other Phone Number songs :\'(
Subject: Re: Caller ID "Unknown" or "Toll Free Number" calls
Written By: nally on 02/26/07 at 10:45 pm
It doesn't work with other Phone Number songs :\'(
What other phone number songs are there? ??? I only know 867-5309.
Subject: Re: Caller ID "Unknown" or "Toll Free Number" calls
Written By: Dominic L. on 02/26/07 at 11:10 pm
What other phone number songs are there? ??? I only know 867-5309.
853-5937 - Squeeze
6060-842 - The B-52's
Subject: Re: Caller ID "Unknown" or "Toll Free Number" calls
Written By: Sister Morphine on 02/26/07 at 11:17 pm
Pennsylvania 6-5000 - Glenn Miller
Of course, that was back in the old days when telephone numbers used to look like that.
Subject: Re: Caller ID "Unknown" or "Toll Free Number" calls
Written By: Windbreaker05 on 02/26/07 at 11:31 pm
It doesn't work with other Phone Number songs :\'(
It's based on user input. I'm sure eventually some jokester will fill more in.
Subject: Re: Caller ID "Unknown" or "Toll Free Number" calls
Written By: whistledog on 02/26/07 at 11:54 pm
853-5937 - Squeeze
6060-842 - The B-52's
Beechwood 4-5789 - The Marvelettes / The Carpenters
777-9311 - The Time
Subject: Re: Caller ID "Unknown" or "Toll Free Number" calls
Written By: Henk on 02/27/07 at 1:32 am
Beechwood 4-5789 - The Marvelettes / The Carpenters
777-9311 - The Time
634 5789 (Robert Cray & Tina Turner)
Subject: Re: Caller ID "Unknown" or "Toll Free Number" calls
Written By: nally on 02/27/07 at 11:33 am
Pennsylvania 6-5000 - Glenn Miller
Of course, that was back in the old days when telephone numbers used to look like that.
Oh yeah...and "Murray Hill 5-9909" (or something like that) on I Love Lucy.
Subject: Re: Caller ID "Unknown" or "Toll Free Number" calls
Written By: Sister Morphine on 02/27/07 at 1:15 pm
Oh yeah...and "Murray Hill 5-9909" (or something like that) on I Love Lucy.
I'm sorry, that's not a phone number song.
Subject: Re: Caller ID "Unknown" or "Toll Free Number" calls
Written By: nally on 02/27/07 at 3:04 pm
I'm sorry, that's not a phone number song.
I know it's not a song...I was just giving reference to a time on TV from back in the old days when they used words at the beginning of a phone number.
Subject: Re: Caller ID "Unknown" or "Toll Free Number" calls
Written By: Miss Anthrope on 02/27/07 at 8:18 pm
Well, with privacy manager, most of these won't even go through......I miss privacy manager :(
I beg to differ...or maybe I'm just the anomaly. I get toll-free calls, calls that have the State origination, stupid calls like "French Quarter" (which is actually a sales pitch for a Branson time share), etc, etc. The only calls my privacy manager manages to "not recognize" are actually most of my buds from other states! I get calls from collection agencies trying to find the people who previously had my phone number...the list goes on. It sucks! >:( ::)
Subject: Re: Caller ID "Unknown" or "Toll Free Number" calls
Written By: Tam on 03/01/07 at 1:47 am
I don't get any of these calls at all.
I only get calls from those that I have approved by telling them they can call me with promotions etc.
Something helpful:
There is a National Do Not Call Registry https://www.donotcall.gov/default.aspx
Just register your number, give it about 3 weeks, and voila! Your phone only rings with calls from family and friends.... unless of course a bill collector really has the right number!! ;D ;D ;D