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by LostJourneyman 1641 days ago
This is a call from Memphis TN with a badly formatted ANI. The format that you would recognize would be +19011700119 or (901) 170-0119. 111 or 011 are country code prefixes in the North American Dialing Plan. The "V" may mean verified (which would be an artifact of STIR/SHAKEN, ironically), if you're using XFinity/Comcast... but likely is just an artifact of a bug in the code used to set the headers. The fact that the 901 is prefixed with a 0 hints that the PBX/SBC used to place this call was configured for international use and they missed some localization settings, which could be the culprit for the weird formatting.
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This is fascinating, thanks for sharing. I noticed that I get a lot of spam calls from “Russia” (country code 7) because my local number is in an area code that starts with 7. I figured that the caller totally screwed up their caller ID. I find it hilarious that the callers are trying and failing to appear as if they are in my local area.
This is really interesting to me. I've basically just silenced all those calls and my life is much better for it. Interesting that they're in theory passing STIR/SHAKEN.