Random crazy person keeps texting me

[CottonRabbit]

So, for the past 4 mornings, a complete stranger has been sending me a bunch of random, slightly creepy picture texts. I have no idea why he/she is doing this. I don't know anyone from the area code and I'm no where near where the locations shown in the pictures. Here's a small sampling of what I've been getting:

At first I thought it was a wrong number, so on the second morning I told him he has a wrong number. This is how he responded (none of these quotes have been altered in any way):

SORRY, YOU HAVE BEEN RANDONALLY SELECTED, BY THIS ORGANIZATION, TO RECIEVE PICTURES, FOR A YEAR FREE, I'AM ISREALI, MY NAME IS FANZY MOHAMOND, I'AM FRON LAKE CHARLES, LOUISANA, AND ON WEDNESDAY, I'AM GOING TO CLARKSBURG, TENNESSEE.

All of his communications have been similarly incoherent. When I asked him to stop the first time, I got this:

MISS, LET ME TELL YOU A STORY. THERE WAS THIS HOMELESS MAN, WITH A CELLULAPHONE, HE STARTED GETTING THREATING PHONE CALLS, FROM A PERSON UNKNOWN TO HIM, ONE NIGHT, THE HOMELESS MAN, WAS WALKING THOUGH A ALLEY, 3 BLACK GUYS, CAME UP TO HIM, DEMENDED HIM TO GIVE THEM MONEY, HE DIDN'T HAVE ANY, SO THEY JUMPED HIM, THE ONLY THING THEY STOLE WAS A GOLD WATCH, TO FIND OUT THOUGH THE POLICE REPORT AND THE ARREST OF THE 3, THEY'RE THE ONE'S THAT WAS GIVING THE HOMELESS MAN, THE HARRASHMENT PHONE CALLS, CAME FROM, THIS HOW THIS GANG, FINDS THERE VICTINS, THIS HOMELESS PERSON, IS MY BROTHER, HE DIED THAT NIGHT, THE CITY, WAS OMAHA, WE BEG YOU, AS A ORGANIZATION, WRITE A LETTER TO YOUR CONGRESSMAN, AND MAKE A PROPOSAL, OF A CYBER SPACE LAW, SO EVERYBODY WILL BE PROTECTED, FEDERALLY NOT A STATE LAW. THANKS. THE CAPTAIN.

I don't have unlimited texts, so this was getting quite annoying. I thought threatening to call the police would get this guy to shut up, I guess not. In fact, he became quite angry (I have a Texas area code, but I'm at school in NY right now)...:

GUEST WHAT AMERICAN SHIT, WE'RE NOT IN TEXAS, WE'RE IN PADUCAH, KENTUCKY, AND BY TOMORROW, WE'RE LEAVING WESTERN KENTUCKY, GOING TO ANOTHER STATE. THAT IS MY POINT, THREATING TO CALL THE LOCAL POLICE, GUEST WHAT AMERICAN BITCH, CALL YOUR LOCAL POLICE, AND THEY'RE GONNA TELL YOU, THE SAME THING, THERE IS NOTHING, THEY CAN DO, BECOUSE WE'RE IN ANOTHER STATE.

At this point, I'm guessing this is just some punk kid trolling me. I've called ATT about blocking the number, which they said they'll gladly do, for a $5 a month fee! Besides paying the $5, anyone have any ideas for shutting this guy up? I've made a Google Voice account to spam this guy back (I've been sending him chapters of War and Peace), but I'm up for more hilarious suggestions.

Also, his phone number is 501-276-3*** if you want to investigate.

Cliffs:
-Random crazy person keeps texting me
-Don't want to pay ATT to block it
-What does this mean?!??!

Update:
Here's some more incoherent rambling for your enjoyment. This is right after I sent him chapter 2 of War and Peace.

-YES, YOU CAN READ! 6:10 PM
-IITERESTING! 6:12 PM
-YOU MUCH BE READING ME A STORY ABOUT DUNGIONS & DRAGON. 6:14 PM
-WHERE ARE YOU GETTING YOUR STORYS FROM AMERICAN FRIEND? 6:17 PM
-ARE YOU A FRENCHMAN, OR CANADAIN? 6:19 PM
-LOOK FRIEND, I WILL NOT, TELL YOU, WHERE I WILL BE TOMORROW NIGHT, ALL YOU WILL KNOW, IS CLARKSVILLE, TENNESSEE. 6:24 PM
-OKA, A ARKANSAS NUMBER, BUT ITS COMING FROM ARIZONA. 6:26 PM (Using his area code for my Google voice number, I'm not sure why he assumed I'm from Arizona)
-DO YOU BELEAVE IN HEAVEN TERRORIST? 6:29 PM
-I DON'T KNOW, I THINK, YOUR CANADAIN, POULY FOUL FIANCEY? 6:32 PM
-WELL SAY HI TO GRANDFATHER? 6:34 PM
-YES, TELL ME, HOW IS PRESCOTT? 6:36 PM

 

[911paramedic]

/subscribe

 

[joesmoke]

send him sexual advances via text. be descriptive. include pics of ur butthole.

 

[keird]

Text him better Nate than Lever.

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=1555

 

[Numenorean]

Can you send pictures over google voice?

Send him gay porn continuously until he stops.

I'm sure you can find plenty of it on your hard drive.

 

[AreaCode707]

Posting phone numbers on here is a good way to get your post edited by a mod and get warned, just fyi.

 

[OutHouse]

send him gay porn then pay the 5 bucks for a couple of months then call AT&T to turn it off.

 

[Engineer]

How about calling (or going online) and blocking the number?

 

[Balt]

Threaten to switch phone carriers and see if AT&T will be a bit more accommodating.

 

[lxskllr]

Enjoy the random pictures, but don't respond ever again. I can't believe you guys step out of this forum for a second, and forget everything you've learned :^S

 

[OutHouse]

Threaten to switch phone carriers and see if AT&T will be a bit more accommodating.

wont do any good unless he changes the number.

 

[OutHouse]

How about calling (or going online) and blocking the number?

??

 

[Numenorean]

Posting phone numbers on here is a good way to get your post edited by a mod and get warned, just fyi.

Fuck that shit. If that guy is going to spam people and not stop when asked then he deserves it. Fuck him.

I say make a fucking facebook page or something and make it viral and get every "American Shit" to text him into oblivion.

 

[datalink7]

This sounds like a job for 4Chan....

 

[Numenorean]

BTW the number is from Arkansas originally....SWBell, which is basically AT&T. I'd say call AT&T and complain about the number but don't tell them you're a customer. Tell them one of their customers is sending you threatening text messages and that they better take care of it or you will sue them into oblivion.

 

[jlee]

wont do any good unless he changes the number.

Sure it will. Sprint lets you block texts for free.

 

[AreaCode707]

Fuck that shit. If that guy is going to spam people and not stop when asked then he deserves it. Fuck him.

I say make a fucking facebook page or something and make it viral and get every "American Shit" to text him into oblivion.

And if this is the OP's exgf he's stalking and harassing and has posted the number here with a bogus story, Anandtech is being put at risk for a lawsuit. We have no proof that the OP's tale of woe is true, and harassing someone over the phone (while a bad idea anyway) is especially stupid if you don't know for a fact who's on the other line.

 

[coldmeat]

just keep callng him all day with skype. Only costs you like $3.

 

[DaTT]

Southwestern Bell Wireless Llc-A is the carrier. Start by calling them.

He/she is in Hot Springs, AR in Garland County. Can get any more info for you right now as I am lazy at the moment.

 

[ThatsABigOne]

Send porn over to him, assuming that he is old enough... so you will not get sued...

 

[CottonRabbit]

And if this is the OP's exgf he's stalking and harassing and has posted the number here with a bogus story, Anandtech is being put at risk for a lawsuit. We have no proof that the OP's tale of woe is true, and harassing someone over the phone (while a bad idea anyway) is especially stupid if you don't know for a fact who's on the other line.

This would be a very roundabout way of doing that. Just all the pictures I'd have to take and text to myself would be ridiculous. Anyways, I'll go ahead and take the number down since I've gotten some useful suggestions.

Also, I'm not going to send him anything inappropriate, since there's a good chance this is a kid. I just want to get his attention away from my real phone number for now.

 

[AreaCode707]

This would be a very roundabout way of doing that. Just all the pictures I'd have to take and text to myself would be ridiculous. Anyways, I'll go ahead and take the number down since I've gotten some useful suggestions.

Also, I'm not going to send him anything inappropriate, since there's a good chance this is a kid. I just want to get his attention away from my real phone number for now.

We've had members create second accounts and fictitious personalities with tens of thousands of posts, so roundabout and unlikely don't always go hand in hand.

 

[zinfamous]

This would be a very roundabout way of doing that. Just all the pictures I'd have to take and text to myself would be ridiculous. Anyways, I'll go ahead and take the number down since I've gotten some useful suggestions.

Also, I'm not going to send him anything inappropriate, since there's a good chance this is a kid. I just want to get his attention away from my real phone number for now.

if you can somehow find his address through the telephone number, I recommend sending him a box of rabies.

 

[isekii]

4chan

 

[thegimp03]

Southwestern Bell Wireless Llc-A is the carrier. Start by calling them.

He/she is in Hot Springs, AR in Garland County. Can get any more info for you right now as I am lazy at the moment.

Yeah, second this. Call the person's carrier and forward them the texts you've been receiving from this douche. Police probably can't do much...