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catpaw
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I'm from TEXAS and have been recieving "hang-up" phones calls for years. There is never anything said during these calls - only silence, and caller ID always lists it as "UNKNOWN." We moved over 300 miles almost 2 years ago into a new area code. We didn't recieve any of these calls for about 2 months when they started again. We rarely recieve more than one in a day, sometimes for several days in a row, sometimes not getting any for a month.
I called the phone company's nuisance bureau, activated the "call trace" feature using *57 to no avail. Apparently these calls come from "out of the area." Duh.
Tried changing the phone number several times too, also to no avail. The calls start again within 3 days each time we change it, almost as if to prove a point. Our number is always "unpublished," but those are easy to get anyway.
Following the advice of the nuisance bureau, I filed a police complaint, gave the number to the bureau so they could initiate a trace through other phone companies, again to no avail. The bureau says that all companies require a minimum number of these calls per day before they will take action, in my case the other company requires 10 calls per day!
Is it just me or is this completely unreasonable?
Isn't the company liable for allowing their equipment to be used for such harrasement?
How hard can it be to trace the call? (Sorry, I used to work for a phone company. It's a matter of pushing a few buttons.)
Sorry for the rant, any usefull suggestions are most welcomed.
I called the phone company's nuisance bureau, activated the "call trace" feature using *57 to no avail. Apparently these calls come from "out of the area." Duh.
Tried changing the phone number several times too, also to no avail. The calls start again within 3 days each time we change it, almost as if to prove a point. Our number is always "unpublished," but those are easy to get anyway.
Following the advice of the nuisance bureau, I filed a police complaint, gave the number to the bureau so they could initiate a trace through other phone companies, again to no avail. The bureau says that all companies require a minimum number of these calls per day before they will take action, in my case the other company requires 10 calls per day!
Is it just me or is this completely unreasonable?
Isn't the company liable for allowing their equipment to be used for such harrasement?
How hard can it be to trace the call? (Sorry, I used to work for a phone company. It's a matter of pushing a few buttons.)
Sorry for the rant, any usefull suggestions are most welcomed.
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