Who the hell keeps calling me?

[DAM]

Every day, sometimes twice a day, I get a call from an unknow name and number, since I rarely pick up the phone it is annoying as hell, specially since they never leave a message. Do telemarketers call you everyday? This has been going on for about 3 months now. They (assuming its the same person) has called me at 8 am, 10 am, 12 am, 3 pm, 5 pm, 7 pm so pretty much every hour possible. Who are these people?





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[Locutus of Board]

If you heard heavy breathing, it was me.

 

[Adul]

They are the people who know about the people who know about some other people who are assigned to give out info to other people to call you.

 

[DAM]

<< They are the people who know about the people who know about some other people who are assigned to give out info to other people to call you. >>






well, that makes it all clear now.




dam()

 

[Wedesdo]

go get &quot;anonymous call rejection&quot; from your telco... that way, if they don't show their caller-id, the phone won't even ring.

 

[Siva]

sorry dam

 

[Freeze]

<< go get &quot;anonymous call rejection&quot; from your telco... that way, if they don't show their caller-id, the phone won't even ring. >>



Not entirely true. I have that and I still get Unknown name, unknown numbers. I just don't answer them.

 

[Helpless]

...its the guys in the black helicopters.

 

[palad]

I was reading that a lot of telemarketers use auto dialers, which work something like this:
A poorly paid telemarketing schill sits at a desk with a headset on. The headset is connected to a phone system that automatically dials, say, 10 numbers at a time, because they know that most of those will be no answers, busy signals, etc. The first number that somebody actually picks up on, connects thru to the telemarketer. If anybody answers the others after that, they just get dead air.

Now I don't know this first-hand, it was just from something I was reading the other day, but it does seem to fit.

 

[SpeedTrap]

answer the phone, Sheriff Dept, how may i direct your call. or this line is secure, and being traced and recorded how may i assist you?

 

[mrCide]

Whenever I get blocked/unknown, pick up, and no one says anything (I have to pick up cause my relatives are in other countries/and/or/visiting) I assume they're just checking to see if someone lives here or will answer.. you know, like spammers put reply 'unsubscribe' to see if its a valid email..

 

[pulse8]

<< I was reading that a lot of telemarketers use auto dialers, which work something like this:
A poorly paid telemarketing schill sits at a desk with a headset on. The headset is connected to a phone system that automatically dials, say, 10 numbers at a time, because they know that most of those will be no answers, busy signals, etc. The first number that somebody actually picks up on, connects thru to the telemarketer. If anybody answers the others after that, they just get dead air.

Now I don't know this first-hand, it was just from something I was reading the other day, but it does seem to fit. >>



Maybe that's why I every now and then I get several calls where no one is there and it just hangs up. It's VERY VERY annoying!


I have the Kassy disease today...my brain is moving faster than my hands...

 

[ratkil]

They have a computer software program that keeps track of average call times and dials a new number to coincide with when a telemarketer should be hanging up their current call. Sometimes it is wrong and that is why you get the dead air, or it's a little off and you just get a second or two of dead air before the telemarketer hangs up their current call and picks up yours.

 

[littleprince]

wait a bit...
some salesman will come on soon....

 

[ThisIsMatt]

I never use my second line, except to be online, so when I'm offline and it rings, I just pick it up and drop it back on the cradle

ahahahahahaaaaaa, stupid TM's...

 

[DAM]

he he matt.




dam()

 

[amnesiac]

PacBell has this new service called Privacy Manager.. apparently it screens your calls and if it's &quot;out of area&quot; or &quot;unknown&quot; it will force the caller to reveal their number before allowing it through - thereby identifying 100% of calls.

 

[Optimus]

WILL YOU PICK UP THE DAMN PHONE ALREADY???

j/k

 

[Valhalla1]

<< PacBell has this new service called Privacy Manager.. apparently it screens your calls and if it's &quot;out of area&quot; or &quot;unknown&quot; it will force the caller to reveal their number before allowing it through - thereby identifying 100% of calls. >>




I've seen this, I tried calling someone once and I had to dial my number or leave a message

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

<< If you heard heavy breathing, it was me. >>

BWUHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

 

[Mikal]

More than likely telemarketers..... Discover card was a bad one for us until da wife picked up and told them to put us on the &quot;do not call list.&quot;

 

[AUMM]

I used to work for the Gallup poll, just did phone surveys about different stuff in the news, we worked on auto-dialers with headphones but they only called one number at a time. the best way to get them to stop calling you is just to tell them not to call back, if you just hang up or say not thanks theyll set it to call u back at a later time,
At least thats how it worked at Gallup

 

[obiwaynekenobi]

we got some kids that we calling and making orgasm noises in the phone at my wife. so I called the police they pulled the phone records and traced it to a retirement home to an old woman, who had her grandsons spending the week with her.

 

[Cyberian]

<< I was reading that a lot of telemarketers use auto dialers, which work something like this:
A poorly paid telemarketing schill sits at a desk with a headset on. The headset is connected to a phone system that automatically dials, say, 10 numbers at a time, because they know that most of those will be no answers, busy signals, etc. The first number that somebody actually picks up on, connects thru to the telemarketer. If anybody answers the others after that, they just get dead air.

Now I don't know this first-hand, it was just from something I was reading the other day, but it does seem to fit.
>>



I have read/heard this several times from usually reliable sources.

 

[JohnnyKnoxville]

Yeah I find wrong number callers especially annoying ,thats why i log on to internet now for 12 hours a day.Busy signals is all they get now