the phone number displayed may not be set up for incoming calls.

CJ,
if a person called you from their office phone, it's possibly the specific line (number) that called you can't except incoming calls and they use a "main" number for all inbound calls.  Not that uncommen for  large phone systems.

I use a program called Skype to make phone calls from my computer to landline or cell phones sometimes.  Since the computer is sending IP packets over the Internet, which are then modulated and routed onto the phone system by Skype's network, you are not really getting a phone call from a device that has a phone number.  I suspect some VOIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) phones work like this too, although you do get a number from VOIP providers like Vonage.  Not having VOIP service, I am not sure whether caller ID systems properly recognize the incoming VOIP caller's number or not...

So, when you call someone from your landline phone or cell it "disguises" and shows a totally different number on the recipient caller ID.
There is a whole thread about this service on the NY "other" board:

"Camophone, hide your REAL caller ID"
Hide your caller ID to providers and agencies, but get through by giving them a different one. The service is here...

http://www.camophone.com/

news article... http://www.newsmax.com/archives/art...28/145923.shtml

xoxoxo

Betty

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