Harassing Phone Calls: What To Do

Keep getting calls from 866-597-5705 no one ever leaves a message

Hey thanks alot for your information. I have been getting calls from the Donald Burak Law Office for several months now. The debt they are tring to collect from me has actually showed up on my credit report.

You should just look into getting a VOIP phone serice instead of the $100.00 privacycorp talked about above. I had Sunrocket (until they closed their doors) and now I have Verizon Voicewing. With both companies, you can block phone numbers from calling the house. As soon as the caller, calls the house one time. I log onto my account and block their number. I call then go online and see how many times a day they try to call the house. I think it's funny.

Probably many of the "phone numbers" you are receiving calls from are "spoofed". Just google "spoofed phome numbers" for more information.  These callers are scam telemarketers or criminals out for your personal information for identity fraud.  It is very difficult to block the calls, as they change numbers repeatedly.  One guy from a computer can make thousands of calls.  You just have to hang up or otherwise ignore the call.

Thanks for the info Gofish, I keep receiving a call from Bank of America
1-800-943-3022. These callers don't say anything when you answer , which ticks someone off more.

bill keeps calling me and won't stop harrassing me and my family his # is 386-763-0347

I keep getting an unavailable  one that says they are from Account Services. they never say what account. When you ask for more info they hang up real fast
i have in fact traced the call right after and convtacted verizon
They did NOTHING told me they would call me back I have never got a call and i still got charged the 3.00 for tracing the darn calls.

i at least KNOW better but what of folks who do NOT and actually give these folks info like banking etc.

Yet not a think havs yet been done
So that call trace thing is nothing but a way to get the phone company a few extra dollars

There seems to be a new wave of scams by which people/companies get paid for each call that is answered. The customer payng for the service to get their message out figures if the call is answered by an answering machine or a person, that the company has got the message out. Here is the catch, some have lists of phone numbers that have answering machines..here they hang up as soon as the phone is answered. Most others just call and as soon as it is picked up they hang up. Many are computer programed for this. Imagine how much more money they can make. Say the average is 5 seconds to dial a number and for someone to answer or an answering machine connect. If they play the message it could take 30seconds to 2 minutes to deliver the customers message. What a scam.

calls from Contact America Inc #701-250-0178. they have been calling for a coupel of weeks/ no message or they hang up.  on 11/14/2007 they called 25 times in row, every minute or two. I have it logged on caller i.d. this is harrassment. I would like to press charges, if it is possible.

Just received a phone call in which showed up on my caller ID as, Atty Don Burke 215 642-3400.
A message was left my a Michael keys at 1 800 853 4000 ext 207. This person was looking for my father whom I had not seen in over 25 years. When I asked this extremely rude man how I had gotton involved, he sarcastically told me, "If I did not know where my father was, then he was to busy to speak to me.

After reading the above comments, I will also be forwarding this information to every government agency I can think off.

Christine Smith

Mary,
that would scare me.

I get this too. I also get the infamous "800" or "866" numbers as well. Whenever I answer the phone the person speaking is always foriegn. They sound indian to me. They never leave a message, and for the record I am not late with my payments. I thought this was considered harassment, because now I am getting calls on my cell phone as well.

I agree with you totally. Seems to me the same #'s are involved in alot of different states. A friend of mine told me recently that now cell #s' are now pubglic access to these companies also. I thought he was joking, but now I am getting these calls on my cell.

This is getting too much: distracting, annoying, even disturbing and all unwanted calls. No matter how "insignificant" this issue might sound to some or how some others deliberately paint this issue as such, this is NOT a problem of annoyance only. Ability to place unidentifiable calls is used widely not only by "innocent" marketers, but for criminal purposes, which makes the little benefit of it actually unimportant, and which has to give the Government legitimate grounds for taking appropriate centralized measures to protect individual and public safety. Existing laws has to be corrected and/or new law(s) have to be introduced for this matter, equal to individuals, companies and organizations, with possible rare exceptions for law enforcement and government only and only under special circumstances.

Here are some ideas:

- ALL calls have to be identifiable. Caller ID and Name (Company Name) have to be displayed (real, legally obtained, listed, and that could be tracked back). Calls from public phones/booths have to display appropriate IDs/numbers.

- Technology has to adapt to satisfy mandatory identification. (E.g.: existing devices that currently enable ID suppression have to be rendered unable to place calls without positive identification; an attempt to use such device and/or method has to be tracked and recorded at a service provider level; etc.)

- Any attempt to fake an ID/Name, use someone else’s ID/Name, illegally obtain and use right to hide Caller ID and Name has to be deemed as a punishable offense.

If a person, company or organization is legal and honest there should be no reason to hide their identity. By keeping themselves “private” they are actually violating other’s peace and privacy. (E.g., one can not drive a car without a valid license plate, or enter a plane without a valid passport/ID, etc. Calling without a Caller ID/Name has to be viewed as knocking someone’s door with a full face cover mask and costume on.)

Regards,

NKS

Harrassing phone calls from Nine Inch Nails, or NIN fans. 1-866-445-6580. My sons phone has been ringing for hours. It tells you that your password is incorrect. If you know the password or call it back it will say you have been associated with the United States Bureau of Morality and you are being tracked by Big Brother. Stupid punk ass kids!!!! Get a job! It is supposed to be a big joke. But I ain't laughing right now!!!
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