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Re: Harrassing phone calls - what can be done?
Posted by Ellie Riesgo on 5/31/07

    I vote that we start posting harrassing phone numbers on a list
    that we can turn the tables on them. Here's one...813-458-5393
    have everyone you know start calling this number at all hours of
    the day or night. Let them have a taste of their own medicine.

    On 4/03/07, D. Smalley wrote:
    > I have started getting these calls constantly on my home
    > phone, with silence on the other end. They come at all times
    > of the day and night and I'm about ready to scream. I was
    > shocked when I came across this forum after I googled the
    > phone number. With this happening to so many people, it seems
    > the phone company should be able to stop it, even if it's out
    > of state, (that is if they care to bother). Everyone should
    > contact their local phone companies and just keep complaining,
    > loudly, and advise the phone company about this link. It's
    > your phone service that you pay for. Make the company earn it
    > and get off their duffs.
    >
    >
    > On 7/27/06, Person wrote:
    >> Chris, I have been experience the exact same thing for about
    > 2
    >> weeks now - from my home phone. I never pick up because I
    >> assume it's a solicitor - despite the odd 713 area code. But
    >> the two times that I did pick up, there was just silence on
    >> the other end.
    >>
    >> Tonight (after a bad day, I was in a particularly fiesty
    > mood)
    >> I pick up when "Operations Division" was calling and say
    >> hello, then listen to silence, say hello again and listen.
    >> After a moment, a girl (very quiet and timid) responds,
    >> "hello...... is russell there?" To which I respond, "do you
    >> realize that you call me 5 or 6 times a day and it's
    >> completely obnoxious and suspicious?" To which she apologizes
    >> and then I grunt something at her and hang up. Now I'm
    > wishing
    >> I kept her on the phone a bit longer...
    >>
    >> any leads?
    >>
    >> On 7/24/06, ChrisC wrote:
    >>> About a week ago, my husband and I started receiving calls
    >>> from 713-271-3899 on our cell phone. We originally had the
    >>> number that is used for our cell phone as a land line a
    >>> year ago and switched over to just a cell phone this
    >>> spring since it's more cost efficient and more useful for
    >>> us.
    >>>
    >>> Anyway, the calls started about a week ago. The phone
    >>> rang, I picked it up and the caller ID showed Texas and
    >>> the number, 713-271-3899. I answered the phone like I
    >>> usually do with "hello" but all that was on the other end
    >>> was silence.
    >>>
    >>> I've been getting calls from that same number over a week
    >>> now, sometimes three or four of them in a day. They try
    >>> and call at all different hours. Sometimes in the morning
    >>> as early as 8, sometimes in the evening as late as 10.
    >>> They called three times on Sunday afternoon.
    >>>
    >>> The thing is, they never say anything, they just hang up.
    >>> It doesn't matter if I say "hello", my husband says hello,
    >>> or we don't say anything at all but just pick it up and
    >>> listen.
    >>>
    >>> Is there any way to stop this kind of call? I've tried
    >>> calling the number back and just get a busy signal no
    >>> matter when I try to call it.
    >>>
    >>> You would figure if these were debt collectors (I found
    >>> the number listed on a forum on the web as belonging to a
    >>> debt collection agency), they would say something in order
    >>> to collect a debt. Although I find it interesting that
    >>> debt collectors would be harrassing us considering we
    >>> don't have any debts whatsoever. We don't even own credit
    >>> cards. The only thing we have that we're paying off is our
    >>> car loan, and we have been making the payments on time
    >>> every month to Wells Fargo with no problems.
    >>>
    >>> Does anyone have any insight or suggestions about what can
    >>> be done about this harrassment?

     
     

 
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