Apr 3, 2014
Database dipping scam. The drones get paid simply for placing the call; anyone connecting to speak with an agent is only icing on the cake, as they open themselves up to a secondary scam.
CallerId4U owns 763,000 phone numbers Oregon, Washington, North Dakota, California, and Nevada. These phone numbers are used exclusively for a telemarketing revenue sharing scheme.
CallerId4U provisions their phone numbers in 3rd party “CNAM” callerId databases. These databases associate a phone number with the caller ID text that will be displayed during a phone call. When a phone call is placed using one of these phone numbers, the telephone company receiving the call must pay a small fee of less than a cent to retrieve the caller Id text from the database. These are called CNAM “dip” fees and refer to the process of “dipping” into the Caller Id database to retrieve the calling name text (CNAM.)
Even though several of these scam operations have been shut down, they continue to surface. Read more here: http://wp.me/p2os5l-1VC