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[lollardfish]

Some machine is calling my phone. It comes up as restricted. If I answer, it goes beep, beep, and disconnects. If it goes to voicemail, it goes beep, beep, then disconnects.

Verizon can't do anything but change my number. They say I can supoena to find out the number that's calling me. Otherwise, I can do nothing.

Except turn off my phone and hope it goes away. Bleh.

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[davidschroth.livejournal.com]

Every time the machine calls, have another piece of pie.

[guppiecat]

Some phones can be set to block calls based on various parameters. I was actually dealing with someone who was calling in the middle of the music circles at Minicon, so I had to block that number. The software I use (on a Treo 650) can also block all numbers that do not have a Caller ID, if they're hiding behind something like that.

Check around and see if your phone is smart enough to run something like that. It sure made my life better.

[mmagidow.livejournal.com]

log on to donotbeep.com.

[lollardfish.livejournal.com]

uh, no such site?

[kalikanzara.livejournal.com]

I'm guessing it's a misdialing fax machine retrying. I've had it happen to me at work - from my work hone, I call forward it to a fak machine, then see what comes out the other end.

Do you have call forwarding? I have an inbound fax number that goes to my work email, which I can't rememember at the moment, but if you had forwarding that might do the trick - once it delivers it stops, and then we can fax the source a nastygram, or call them or something.

If you don't have forwarding, I seem to recall some modems could be configured to receive faxes, and then do the same thing, maybe. Or scrounge up an old fax machine.

[lollardfish.livejournal.com]

Now that's an interesting idea ...