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Oubadah

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#84568 2-Jun-2011 14:19
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I keep getting calls that register as "000" on the caller ID. When I pick it up, it's always just the beeep-beeep-beeep (other person hang up tone). It must be some kind of automated system. I often get scam calls from another number, with arabs trying to 'fix' my computer, but what is the point of these 000 calls?

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wreck90
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  #477102 2-Jun-2011 14:52
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I get calls like that sometimes - usually it is an overseas call. But, when I pickup it doesn't hang up.



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  #477106 2-Jun-2011 14:58
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wreck90: I get calls like that sometimes - usually it is an overseas call. But, when I pickup it doesn't hang up.


This one always hangs up with no delay, and I've been getting it almost every day lately, sometimes even twice a day. 

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  #477124 2-Jun-2011 15:47
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I had a few of those, and the same thing...a hang up/disconnection. After about the 3rd or 4th time however there was an actual person who in very poor English trying to tell me I have a virus on my computer blah blah blah





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  #477151 2-Jun-2011 17:13
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Could it be 0000? This is a common CID passed through on some international interconnects into NZ.

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  #477164 2-Jun-2011 17:50
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sbiddle: Could it be 0000? This is a common CID passed through on some international interconnects into NZ.

Definitely triple 0. 

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