Cell phone harassment

[grizli]

What is the name of your state? OHIO

We have a family plan with T-Mobile. My wife 4 days ago started to get phone calls on her cell from a Private (Blocked) number. Person never talks, except ones, very deeply and quietly where you couldn't understand, but for the most part just breathes in the phone loudly. Yesterday on one of the calls, he burped and hung up.
My wife is afraid of those calls, because we don't know anyone that would pull a prank on us, nor we have friends like that. The breathing into the phone really intimidates her. She is afraid someone maybe following her all time now.

I called T-Mobile first, they said they can't do anything, they have no way to tell the number, except they proposed to change our number. I'm afraid that won't help, because if someone is really going after my wife and they got number once somehow - they'll get it again.
So representative said - contact local law enforcement agency. We called our police department. Officer came over - filled out a report and gave us reference #. That's it. I asked him to contact T-Mobile - response was: I don't do that.
I called T-Mobile back again, told them I have police report and asked to transfer the case to their investigation team. (I was talking to a manager) She said they cannot do that unless law enforcement contacts them about the issue.

So what can I do at this point?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[enjay]

My gut feeling is that you are overreacting. Tell your wife to not answer calls from private numbers and you're all set.

 

[Zigner]

And, change your number. You are afraid that it *might* not work. Can't hurt to see if it DOES work though, can it?

 

[grizli]

I maybe overreacting, but I try to prevent things from happening before they actually do.

I will change the number however.
God forbid, but if something happens, then I'm going to blame myself for the rest of my life, that I didn't do anything. I would like to just avoid that situation, that's why I asked if there is anything I can do here.

 

[Zigner]

I maybe overreacting, but I try to prevent things from happening before they actually do.

I will change the number however.
God forbid, but if something happens, then I'm going to blame myself for the rest of my life, that I didn't do anything. I would like to just avoid that situation, that's why I asked if there is anything I can do here.

Best advice - chill. It's NOT a land-line phone. You probably just got a fellow who happened upon her number.

 

[FlyingRon]

Ask T-Mobile for a new number and to waive any charges they would normally charge for such as a result of the harassment. I got a phone number that some deadbeat listed as his work number and I get constant calls from debt collectors and debt collectors masquerading as attorneys. It's amazing that these low life scum manage to collect on anything, but I guess they are a tiny bit smarter than many they are trying to collect from.