This number has shown up on my home phone 6 times in the last 2 days. When I try to return the call I get a message that says the number is not in service. How is this possible?

Gang, you have to listen (or read in this case! hehehe) what Uth said on September 26th of last year!!  For goodness sake, just stop answering the call.  He/She is correct.  This IS a computer calling to confirm live numbers and every time you answer it or call it back you are giving your number over to shady telemarketing companies who want to harass you.  Welcome to the age of technology!

Now, on the Do Not Call List - DON"T USE IT!!  This list is being sold by our government to any telemarketing company who's willing to pay for it.  Canadian law can only regulate Canadian businesses.  It is companies with call centres NOT located in Canada that are calling and harassing you now.  Any person can easily pretend to be a telemarketer and purchase the DNC list right off the website and download it!  It's ridiculous.  

The list is sold so that telemarketers within Canada can use the list for the purpose it was designed for. However, typical Canada (and I love my country with every fibre of my being) are too naive to realize that there are creeps out there who will find a way around it.  Unfortunately, the government did not put any barriers on the site where the list can be purchased to stop the list from getting into the "wrong" hands.

After watching an expose news piece about this (it was either 5th Estate or that new Global show on Saturday), I went online to see if it was true.  Well, I bought the list and I'm a nobody - I don't even own a company.  

We all just handed over our cell phone, home, fax and every other number to these creeps.  Silly us!

I've received a call from this number too. They just hang and don't say anything.

Uknown caller

I have gotten no less than 6 calls a week from this number for the past two months.  Cell, home and work numbers are all being harassed.

I also got a call from (705) 725-8710 and the lady told me to turn on my PC there were potential threats on it.  I asked where she was from and she said "Online PC support".  I said I had an anti-virus program on my computer that I was confident in.  She told me that wouldn't stop it and that I was not the only person getting this call, all PC users were.  I asked again where she was from and she started yelling at me saying that she already told me then told me my address (which was correct).  I told her to stop yelling at me and to not call me again and I hung up.