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Re: Harrassing phone calls - what can be done?
Posted by andrew on 6/04/07

    On 5/31/07, Ellie Riesgo wrote:
    > 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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