I was checking my inbound logs and noticed a call from "DRY LOOP" . This area code and prefix is local (geographically) to me. And as I understand it, this is a wired (land-line) prefix (not cell phone). I google the number and get nothing useful - no reports or comments of others saying anything about it.
Anyways, I call back the number, and get "The number you are calling cannot receive incoming calls". This would have once been a Bell Canada TN, and if it was ported then - why? Why port a number and then configure it so it doesn't receive calls? Or could this still be a Bell Canada number, used by a business (as part of a trunk) and they don't pay for outbound capability?
The call was only 12 seconds so they baled on the call before the PBX greeting ended. I'm seeing a lot of this, a lot more today then I used to see a few years ago, which was one of the reasons I switched our lines to voip (to have more control over these ghost calls) and also the cost. I now see that a lot of these ghost calls are coming from my area code and even from prefixes in my city (if they are to be believed). Are others seeing this too?
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