If an (866) number is a toll-free number, just ask four of your friends to call it ten times every day for a week. Then have them each ask four more friends, etc.
Sometimes these things are fax machines that someone puts the wrong number into. If you hear a beep ... beep ... beep before it hangs up, chances are that's what's happening.
And leave very long messages... Maybe some annoying music.
Anymore of our Missippy folks getting these calls? I found a post on another forum about these calls. It is so profane, I'm not going to take the chance of getting banned by posting it. If yall are getting these calls, what are you doing about them? My dear darling CDBEAR was literally screaming her message into their recorder when I got home. I say recorder realizing that it's probably just a bit-bucket that beeps and pretends to take your message.
BTW, if you have a record of the calls on your caller ID, turn them in by going to the do not call registry website.
At that point, I set up my Winfax pro to continuously dial them and fax them a nasty letter asking them to remove our # from their list, (I thoughtfully included a full page black bitmap, too) I let it run for about a week during the day while we were at work. The calls stopped.
There are many companies out there who will provide you with the info for $15 or so. Search for reverse phone lookup or similar.
I'll pay attention to the number next time, but yes, I have received at east 4 such calls this week.
If you have Caller ID (sounds like you do), a message reading "Toll Free" could be an NRA-outsourced solicitation.
Nothing against the Association, mind you, but they can be aggressive.
Could be a prank
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Nah. Only idiots answer calls from unrecognized, toll free numbers.
put an answering machine on your phone line and for the "announcement" have the sound of a fax modem trying to connect. Let friends and family know what you've done; then smile knowing the unwanted caller is going get a very confusing response the next time they call.
I've been getting junk (spam) faxes to my dedicated fax machine/line. Some of these are graphic intensive and use a lot of my ink. This really irks me. So....... I use black paper (several sheets with white lettering) and fax back to them demanding they stop fax-spamming me. I wish I could figure out a way to do a continuous black paper loop.
I got an even weirder one last week. Someone called and I answered. A computer-generated Stephen Hawkings-type voice stated exactly this: "Watch out for the walking dude."
I have no idea, but the number was 303-191-9191.
If this is a computer-generated call, the # key tells the computer to null the number.
You shouldn't be bothered by that number again.
I get this type call occasionally, but I don't record the calling number. I heard a story that this is caused by automated calling machines that call a block of numbers at once, and more people answer than there are solicitors to talk, leaving dead air. Sometimes I can hear people talking in the background.
My phone number is only about 5 months old and my phone announces the number calling me and then I hear my factory default announcement asking them to leave a message..and they hang up.
I am on the DO NOT CALL list.
One time I picked up and there was a 4 second delay before the person with an Indian accent started to speak.
It was a mortgage lender selling the idea of refinancing.
Without fail, the number showing up on the screen is "unknown" or "private".
We've gone back to the old fashioned answering machine (digital) that lets us screen each call. If we recognize the caller (announced by the phone), we answer. Anyone else gets to leave a message, and we might pick up mid-message. Problem solved.
Now unwanted faxes are another matter. I disconnected our incoming fax number because I was getting 10 ads a day for cruises and aluminum siding.