I suspect the perpetrators are using mechanized calls using internet to phone technology and are calling from god knows where.

Its impossible to trace these numbers as they come up as disconnected, contacting the phone company that runs the area code advised me that some are using illegal call display modification.

This tells me they are in control of a local exchange carrier or similar.

It is so annoying to receive such a spam call. My wife received one call from this number and pressed "1" one day last month. An amount of $15 was charged in the phone statement. That sucks!

Just got this call 3:23 MT time, I never pick up if it doesn't show an my area code.

"Because you are a valued Bell customer, you will be awarded 4000 travel points. To accept, press 1."

I'm with rogers since forever. I just hung up after that laugh.

Got this call on my cell.  Something about me being an AirMiles customer and winning a free trip... press #1.  Hung up right away.Called Rogers to see if they have some sort of "block" list in place. They said they can't do anything about it, but they'll help report it to the "National Do Not Call List".  Then we decided it wasn't really a "telemarketing" thing but a scam instead, so I reported it to the "Anti-Fraud Centre" (formerly PhoneBusters).  They said it was reported 19 times and is definitely a scam.  If you get a call from this number, you can report it to them: http://www.antifraudcentre-centreantifraude.ca/english/home-eng.html

sorry for swearing but F***ING PEOPLE CHARGED BE $5.00 OFF MY CELL PHONE BILL!!!