I've gotten a few calls from some Indian a**hole (named "Gary" would you believe).  The scam was he wanted to give me a cheap mortgage and all I had to do was give him all my banking info, SIN # and so on.  The first time my wife answered she laughed and told him to suck eggs.  I wasn't as nice.  I'm listed with the CRTC no call list, so I rarely get calls now but this is different...some sort of scammer.  Time to start answering with the air horn again.  Maybe if he's deaf, he won't be able to call cause he can't hear the replies.

Received call and I answered the phone but no one said anything so I hung up. There must be a way in which Bell can do something about these calls.  Someone needs to look into this and stop these calls.

I also received a call from this number, and it was a voice I couldn't recognize, and then it hung up.  Doing some research, I have also read comments that it ended up being a person's mom (above) and another saying it was an uncle calling from the middle east.  

This implies to me that this is an outdial number for a discount long distance brokerage, and it's being reported as (416) 555-7777.

It would be interesting if someone, who actually recognizes / knows the caller, were to ask which long distance company / discount company that they made the call via.

The scammers that are calling are probably using the same long distance discount company to place their scam calls.

I am from Toronto, Ontario, Canada which is actually the city where the area code is 416. However, as a long time resident of Toronto I know that 555 is NOT A LEGITIMATE 2nd 3 digits! This is spam! For sure! Let me tell you this: When a commercial is made for air/posting around here and they need a fake number they use 416-555-xxxx as the number because NOBODY'S SECOND 3 DIGITS IS 555. So no one will get a spammer call.

HOWEVER, this means that this caller is somehow displaying (416) 555-7777 as his/her caller ID while calling from a different number.

Furthermore, I saw the 647 number posted above. 647 is the Greater Toronto cell phone area code. So that may be a legitimate number. However, it may not necessarily be the number of the caller who was spamming you.

I am dissapointed that some retard is giving a bad rap to the 416 :(

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here's a weird one. i got a call from this number this morning while i was still asleep. there was a message when, so before i check the message i look to see what number is on my call display. it's (416) 555-7777. i don't recognize it, so i google it, and find this page. so i'm thinking, the message is going to be some indian guy trying to scam me--- it wasn't---- it was my mom....?????