Harassing phone calls
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For the last couple weeks, my partner and I have been getting phone calls with the person on the other end simply breathing, without saying anything. They have occurred shortly after I have finished work but not before I have gotten home to answer them myself. Using the service (*69 around here) to get the number of the last call to the line has been ineffective. I ask this technically-minded forum, any nifty ideas for what you would do in my situation, besides, of course, informing the police? I have considered heading to Radio Shack to buy line-recording equipment, maybe a simple tape recorder. Buying a card to run the line through my computer and record the calls digitally is out of the scope of my financial abilities. I am considering a somewhat brute-force method of investigating: getting the numbers of all the people who have it in them to do something like this to us, and phoning them on my cell phone while the calls are in progress to see if those lines are busy, etc. - Jason (SonorkID 100.611) The Code Project - Orange makes the art grow fonder
In my area the phone company charges for a service that forces non identified callers to leave a voice message identifing themselves. You have the option of accpting/rejecting the call based on the message. That way all the unidentified calls aren't rejected. My goal is to look at code like a chessmaster looks at a chessboard to see positions and possibilites beyond lines and characters.
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For the last couple weeks, my partner and I have been getting phone calls with the person on the other end simply breathing, without saying anything. They have occurred shortly after I have finished work but not before I have gotten home to answer them myself. Using the service (*69 around here) to get the number of the last call to the line has been ineffective. I ask this technically-minded forum, any nifty ideas for what you would do in my situation, besides, of course, informing the police? I have considered heading to Radio Shack to buy line-recording equipment, maybe a simple tape recorder. Buying a card to run the line through my computer and record the calls digitally is out of the scope of my financial abilities. I am considering a somewhat brute-force method of investigating: getting the numbers of all the people who have it in them to do something like this to us, and phoning them on my cell phone while the calls are in progress to see if those lines are busy, etc. - Jason (SonorkID 100.611) The Code Project - Orange makes the art grow fonder
Get a tape recording of the noise of a modem/fax machine and play that down the line. They will assume that your number has been changed to a fax and stop calling. '--8<------------------------ Ex Datis: Duncan Jones Merrion Computing Ltd
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For the last couple weeks, my partner and I have been getting phone calls with the person on the other end simply breathing, without saying anything. They have occurred shortly after I have finished work but not before I have gotten home to answer them myself. Using the service (*69 around here) to get the number of the last call to the line has been ineffective. I ask this technically-minded forum, any nifty ideas for what you would do in my situation, besides, of course, informing the police? I have considered heading to Radio Shack to buy line-recording equipment, maybe a simple tape recorder. Buying a card to run the line through my computer and record the calls digitally is out of the scope of my financial abilities. I am considering a somewhat brute-force method of investigating: getting the numbers of all the people who have it in them to do something like this to us, and phoning them on my cell phone while the calls are in progress to see if those lines are busy, etc. - Jason (SonorkID 100.611) The Code Project - Orange makes the art grow fonder
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Get a tape recording of the noise of a modem/fax machine and play that down the line. They will assume that your number has been changed to a fax and stop calling. '--8<------------------------ Ex Datis: Duncan Jones Merrion Computing Ltd
Or what about an annoying "please hold while a service consulantant becomes available" song :) top secret
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For the last couple weeks, my partner and I have been getting phone calls with the person on the other end simply breathing, without saying anything. They have occurred shortly after I have finished work but not before I have gotten home to answer them myself. Using the service (*69 around here) to get the number of the last call to the line has been ineffective. I ask this technically-minded forum, any nifty ideas for what you would do in my situation, besides, of course, informing the police? I have considered heading to Radio Shack to buy line-recording equipment, maybe a simple tape recorder. Buying a card to run the line through my computer and record the calls digitally is out of the scope of my financial abilities. I am considering a somewhat brute-force method of investigating: getting the numbers of all the people who have it in them to do something like this to us, and phoning them on my cell phone while the calls are in progress to see if those lines are busy, etc. - Jason (SonorkID 100.611) The Code Project - Orange makes the art grow fonder
What about a answering maching saying as "All the lines in this routes are busy. Please DONT TRY AGAIN" ;P He who controls others may be powerful,
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For the last couple weeks, my partner and I have been getting phone calls with the person on the other end simply breathing, without saying anything. They have occurred shortly after I have finished work but not before I have gotten home to answer them myself. Using the service (*69 around here) to get the number of the last call to the line has been ineffective. I ask this technically-minded forum, any nifty ideas for what you would do in my situation, besides, of course, informing the police? I have considered heading to Radio Shack to buy line-recording equipment, maybe a simple tape recorder. Buying a card to run the line through my computer and record the calls digitally is out of the scope of my financial abilities. I am considering a somewhat brute-force method of investigating: getting the numbers of all the people who have it in them to do something like this to us, and phoning them on my cell phone while the calls are in progress to see if those lines are busy, etc. - Jason (SonorkID 100.611) The Code Project - Orange makes the art grow fonder
In the UK you can have calls blocked if they supress their caller ID. I had it happen once and used the facilitiy for a couple of weeks then had it disabled again. The reason I had it disabled after the $^&&*() went away is that switchboards etc. often supress their IDs or they get lots of people returning calls but not knowing the extnesion required etc. Elaine :rose: The tigress is here :-D
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For the last couple weeks, my partner and I have been getting phone calls with the person on the other end simply breathing, without saying anything. They have occurred shortly after I have finished work but not before I have gotten home to answer them myself. Using the service (*69 around here) to get the number of the last call to the line has been ineffective. I ask this technically-minded forum, any nifty ideas for what you would do in my situation, besides, of course, informing the police? I have considered heading to Radio Shack to buy line-recording equipment, maybe a simple tape recorder. Buying a card to run the line through my computer and record the calls digitally is out of the scope of my financial abilities. I am considering a somewhat brute-force method of investigating: getting the numbers of all the people who have it in them to do something like this to us, and phoning them on my cell phone while the calls are in progress to see if those lines are busy, etc. - Jason (SonorkID 100.611) The Code Project - Orange makes the art grow fonder
Blow a whistle down the phone - *really* hard. The pain to their ears should stop them :)
Look at the world about you and trust to your own convictions. - Ansel Adams
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Blow a whistle down the phone - *really* hard. The pain to their ears should stop them :)
Look at the world about you and trust to your own convictions. - Ansel Adams
Meg's World - Blog PhotographyMegan Forbes wrote: Blow a whistle down the phone - *really* hard. The pain to their ears should stop them Wouldn't they be likely to return the favour on the next call? Or don't they get off on that? John Carson "I wish to propose for the reader's favourable consideration a doctrine which may, I fear, appear wildly paradoxical and subversive. The doctrine in question is this: that it is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true." - Bertrand Russell
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Megan Forbes wrote: Blow a whistle down the phone - *really* hard. The pain to their ears should stop them Wouldn't they be likely to return the favour on the next call? Or don't they get off on that? John Carson "I wish to propose for the reader's favourable consideration a doctrine which may, I fear, appear wildly paradoxical and subversive. The doctrine in question is this: that it is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true." - Bertrand Russell
John Carson wrote: Wouldn't they be likely to return the favour on the next call? Or don't they get off on that? Ummm..... I don't know, I've never really been one for breathing hard down telephones, and thus what goes on in their brains is something of a mystery to me :~
Look at the world about you and trust to your own convictions. - Ansel Adams
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For the last couple weeks, my partner and I have been getting phone calls with the person on the other end simply breathing, without saying anything. They have occurred shortly after I have finished work but not before I have gotten home to answer them myself. Using the service (*69 around here) to get the number of the last call to the line has been ineffective. I ask this technically-minded forum, any nifty ideas for what you would do in my situation, besides, of course, informing the police? I have considered heading to Radio Shack to buy line-recording equipment, maybe a simple tape recorder. Buying a card to run the line through my computer and record the calls digitally is out of the scope of my financial abilities. I am considering a somewhat brute-force method of investigating: getting the numbers of all the people who have it in them to do something like this to us, and phoning them on my cell phone while the calls are in progress to see if those lines are busy, etc. - Jason (SonorkID 100.611) The Code Project - Orange makes the art grow fonder
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For the lesser technical solutions, a friend of mine once found a sharp whistle works very well: keep it in a handy place near your phone, and when the caller starts breathing, you (or your partner) start whistling. REAL LOUD. Good luck, Bernd
berndg wrote: a sharp whistle Hm.. it can't be too sharp since the phone cuts frequences above a certain threshold (3-4 KHz or something like that). -- Din mamma.
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For the lesser technical solutions, a friend of mine once found a sharp whistle works very well: keep it in a handy place near your phone, and when the caller starts breathing, you (or your partner) start whistling. REAL LOUD. Good luck, Bernd
Of course if you live in any litigation crazy society, eg. the good ol' US of A, then they would be able to sue you for damaging their eardrum. :mad: You can always contact the local police department and file telephone harrassment charges. ed The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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For the last couple weeks, my partner and I have been getting phone calls with the person on the other end simply breathing, without saying anything. They have occurred shortly after I have finished work but not before I have gotten home to answer them myself. Using the service (*69 around here) to get the number of the last call to the line has been ineffective. I ask this technically-minded forum, any nifty ideas for what you would do in my situation, besides, of course, informing the police? I have considered heading to Radio Shack to buy line-recording equipment, maybe a simple tape recorder. Buying a card to run the line through my computer and record the calls digitally is out of the scope of my financial abilities. I am considering a somewhat brute-force method of investigating: getting the numbers of all the people who have it in them to do something like this to us, and phoning them on my cell phone while the calls are in progress to see if those lines are busy, etc. - Jason (SonorkID 100.611) The Code Project - Orange makes the art grow fonder
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For the last couple weeks, my partner and I have been getting phone calls with the person on the other end simply breathing, without saying anything. They have occurred shortly after I have finished work but not before I have gotten home to answer them myself. Using the service (*69 around here) to get the number of the last call to the line has been ineffective. I ask this technically-minded forum, any nifty ideas for what you would do in my situation, besides, of course, informing the police? I have considered heading to Radio Shack to buy line-recording equipment, maybe a simple tape recorder. Buying a card to run the line through my computer and record the calls digitally is out of the scope of my financial abilities. I am considering a somewhat brute-force method of investigating: getting the numbers of all the people who have it in them to do something like this to us, and phoning them on my cell phone while the calls are in progress to see if those lines are busy, etc. - Jason (SonorkID 100.611) The Code Project - Orange makes the art grow fonder
breathe back man, i did - made it into a competition its like inviting the mormons in when they come round they can't handle it ;) bryce --- Publitor, making Pubmed easy. http://www.sohocode.com/publitor
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For the last couple weeks, my partner and I have been getting phone calls with the person on the other end simply breathing, without saying anything. They have occurred shortly after I have finished work but not before I have gotten home to answer them myself. Using the service (*69 around here) to get the number of the last call to the line has been ineffective. I ask this technically-minded forum, any nifty ideas for what you would do in my situation, besides, of course, informing the police? I have considered heading to Radio Shack to buy line-recording equipment, maybe a simple tape recorder. Buying a card to run the line through my computer and record the calls digitally is out of the scope of my financial abilities. I am considering a somewhat brute-force method of investigating: getting the numbers of all the people who have it in them to do something like this to us, and phoning them on my cell phone while the calls are in progress to see if those lines are busy, etc. - Jason (SonorkID 100.611) The Code Project - Orange makes the art grow fonder
Get one of those personal alarms - the ones that emit 120dB or something. cheers, Chris Maunder
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For the last couple weeks, my partner and I have been getting phone calls with the person on the other end simply breathing, without saying anything. They have occurred shortly after I have finished work but not before I have gotten home to answer them myself. Using the service (*69 around here) to get the number of the last call to the line has been ineffective. I ask this technically-minded forum, any nifty ideas for what you would do in my situation, besides, of course, informing the police? I have considered heading to Radio Shack to buy line-recording equipment, maybe a simple tape recorder. Buying a card to run the line through my computer and record the calls digitally is out of the scope of my financial abilities. I am considering a somewhat brute-force method of investigating: getting the numbers of all the people who have it in them to do something like this to us, and phoning them on my cell phone while the calls are in progress to see if those lines are busy, etc. - Jason (SonorkID 100.611) The Code Project - Orange makes the art grow fonder
Is it a listed number ? Do they have the address as well ? Do something about it. Change your work schedule for a week come home early and answer it. Consider going to the police regardless. They should be able to ask the telephone company to log all calls made to your phone and where they are coming from. ie the caller id or internal phone company routing information even if the id is being suppressed the phone company will still be able to record it even if its not being forwarded on to you. In this age of modern computerised exchanges it should just be a matter of the tech keying a request into the exchange system no wiring / soldering required. Have your partner log all suspect calls as accurately as possible to match to the log.