Annoying Phone Calls from (866) 325-2373

Self | 07/06/06 | NerdDad

[RandallFlagg]

I know this, but I have no friends except for work associates, and they wouldn't because they don't know my online nickname.

I'm thinking it might be someone skrooing around on that prank site that was posted earlier.

[Gabz]

Sometimes you just have to fight back.

You've got that right........and your means of doing it seems..................JUST RIGHT!!!!!

Good on you.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Ah, of course if they call you from India they aren't covered by that pesky do not call law.

[WSGilcrest]

Funny story:

I was having problems with prank calls so I picked up the phone and dialed one number and waited for the phone company's "the number you have dialed is no longer in service.." recording. Then I hit record on my answering machine to record their recording. whenever anyone would call they would think my number was disconnected. My girlfriend at the time knew I had paid my phone bill, so she calls the phone company. They send a guy out and he's up on the pole talking to an operator trying to figure out what the heck is wrong. I get home and there's a note on my door that they had been there working on my phone. I go inside and play back my messages and there's a recording of the lineman telling the operator "it's a f$@#ing answering machine!"

[familyop]

Here's a quote from a Stephen King fan board.

http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/thestand.php
"The dreams draw the survivors together according to the natures of their souls; the basically good folk go to see Mother Abigail in Nebraska, and onward to Boulder, Colorado, while the basically evil flock to Randall Flagg, the Walking Dude, in Las Vegas."

[processing please hold]

I go inside and play back my messages and there's a recording of the lineman telling the operator "it's a f$@#ing answering machine!"

ROTFLMAO

[SandRat]

Another good one is if you have caller id and you know it's one of those calls, pick up the phone and go; Office 447, punch in identification code and password now.

Now you'll some sort of confused stuttering, stammering and incoherent words from the receiver.

In a strong COMMAND VOICE say: Enter Identification Code and Password NOW! You have 15 seconds!

Now if they haven't already hung up you get even more confused stuttering, stammering and incoherent words from the receiver.

Now start alternately pushing 2 different buttons on the touch pad as you give the following COMMANDS: INTRUDER ALERT! INTRUDER ALERT! DISPATCH SPECIAL ACTION TEAM! WILL RELAY COORDINATES IN 20 SECONDS! ACTION OF EXTREME PREDJDUDICE IS AUTHORIZED!

Somewhere in that capitalized string of commands you'll hear a click from the receiver. I wonder if the individual at the other end needed to change their shorts after that or if they ran scream in terror from the building never to be seen again.

[Cobra64]

Yes, the NRA is annoying. And I'm a life member.

[Mother Abigail]

When deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed; Then He openneth the ears of men, and sealeth their instruction.

Job 33:15-16

MA

[XBob]

28 - This is not exactly a continuous of black paper, like in your request, but similar.


Go into MS Word, and set up a continuously black page, and then copy it, for say 100 times, and save it as a file/letter.

Then go to the printer portion and install another printer, the (FAX printer) (built into MS word), and send your 'black' letter/fax.

And, if you learn the proper programming language in MS Visual Basic for Applications code, you can turn it into a continuous loop (but this is a lot of work to learn Visual Basic).

[Mike Darancette]

If you get a call that caller ID gives as toll free (800, 888 & c.) then it is probably someone you didn't ask to call you.

[awelliott]

Yes, the NRA is annoying. And I'm a life member.

Agreed. I'm a member too and their unsolicited DVDs of stuff I can see once a week on the History Channel can be annoying as well...

[BurbankKarl]

you better be sure that is not a toll number in the Dominican Republic!

[onyx]

Are those people still on television?
I think the one in the middle has something to do with either "the Medium" or "the Ghost Whisperer" series on network tv.

[Daaave]

TeleZapper

"TeleZapper is a device which emits a SIT tone (Special Information Tones) which tells the telescum's "call progress detection" equipment that they have a disconnected number. This results in a disconnect from anyone using automated equipment. After approximately 3 attempts from each of the major telemarketing operations, your number is removed from their master lists."

scn.org/

My brother has this. He says it works and he likes it.

[The Brush]

Collection agency employees have a tendency to be extremely rude and crude people...He started out lying...I don't owe the money the liar claims I owe.

Collection agencies are third party companies hired because someone made a promise to make good on a debt and then didn't keep it.
Usually a cell phone number is the only way available to make certain you can get to a borrower. "Many" borrowers choose not to answer their phone, leave their machine on, have their children or another person answer and say they aren't home and have no idea when they will be home.
In general, many borrowers continue to, shall we say, stretch the truth.
The company I work for handles government defaults only. The debt is already in arrears for 5-20 years before we get it. There's never any doubt as to if it's owed.
I understand credit card and cell phone bill collectors can get quite nasty.
On the paper we collect, we have the power to garnish without a court order. A simple call to verify the borrowers employment is usually all it takes to get them on the phone.
Lawyers make more than bill collectors by telling their clients they can help them only to have the borrower agree to pay the bill after spending more on the attorney than on the bill.
Attorneys are also notorious for not paying their bills.
Many borrowers are Liberal thinkers who blame the economy and every prior Republican administration back to Reagan for their inability to find work in their chosen field.

Good luck with your situation~

[The Brush]

A friend of mine once called a home and asked for a borrower. The spouse said that she was occupied, when he asked when she would be free he added, "I'm occupying her"

[Ichneumon]

Next time you see the number on your caller ID, pick up the handset, and hit the # key,over and over, until the caller disconnects. If this is a computer-generated call, the # key tells the computer to null the number.

What's your source for that? It sounds like an urban legend.

[WKB]

It started out as an urban legend
but over time it evoloved into the real thing.

[WKB]

Don't remember this number but I get my share
of annoying calls.
If I am not busy I just wait
til they get through or hang up.
I just let them waste their time and money
on me. I figure if they are busy with
me someone else is getting a break.