Unknown Caller

bust out the user manual for your caller id. I promise you, that if it is even half-way decent, there will be a page in there describing to you how to ignore calls that cannot be traced.

this will work, if your phone has this option. If it does, tell anyone you want to talk to that may call you from a cell phone, to turn on the 'Send My ID with this number' option in their cell phone, or their call will be ignored also.

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Ah HA! I just remembered. . . you can contact your phone company and tell them to block unknown callers. My friend works for Sprint & he was going to do this for me, but then I wouldn't have been able to recieve calls from a good friend of mine because he has a Private number. [police] Try that!

freeOn call the local phone company they will put a trace on the line but they wont tell you who's calling they will report it to the police who will contact the people who are doing this. i know i work for phone company.also i think you have to sign papers giving them the ok hope this helps:)

yeah well thanks for the info thor, that's cool that I got someone who works for the phone company.I'm going to dig around for the caller id manual, and then pass this info onto my mom. probably . And block all callers who don't have caller id on, as well as notify the phonecompay.

FreeOn, You can block your phone from unidentified callers, and.. if your [unidentified] friend wants to call, he just has to dial *82, to be an identified caller..

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I would say that it is most likely an automated telemarketing service. My reason being: I worked for one(blah). It was my first year in school and I needed money. Ok this is what happens. The telemarketing network has a set list of numbers that it calls. Often they have one computer terminal that is set up with "dead" return numbers. Your mothers number may have been placed on this log if she hasn't responded to the calls. What this service does will check these number many times a day. If they get a busy signal they will place the number back on an active list because they received a signal that the number is working. Now this may be the problem. They may have her on the "dead" log and an active log. What the dialer will do is try to resolve the problem and just start hitting the number over and over until it gets a result. Now as for the time that they are calling, that could as simple as the terminals time is off. They are set up to call during a specified time but if the time is off then it doesnt know any better and will continue calling. My caller ID does a blocking service for all unidentified calls unless the caller has the one digit pin, the problem is some telemarketing services will follow a call with a 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-0 sequence to get past the block. The best thing to do is alert the phone company and request a block from the number which may very well be more than one. Or get the number from the phone company, contact the telemarketing firm and request that your number is removed and ask for a writting reply stating that it was removed. This is when they realize you mean bussiness and they will stop, also if they continue you have an excellent harassment charge against them. I hope this was some help. Peace. Digi