I keep getting weird phone calls!?

Question

From numbers like: 123-456-7893, 1-888-838-8433, and Uknown name Unknow Number! I suspect they are all the same person and they have been calling for four days straight! I pick up, but they don't say anything and they hang up! Next time they call, I'm saying "Stop calling or I'll call the police!" Does anyone know who it is or something?

Answer 1

Register at donotcall if you live in Australia.

Telemarketers who call those numbers can face serious penalties.

Answer 2

start using right-a-way....*77!!

123-456-7890 is someone from skype calling you!!

Answer 3

Yup...It's from beyond the grave....Bwa-hahaha...they are comming for you.

Answer 4

http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-123-456...

go here...

Answer 5

apply some common sense here.  Next time you answer and its that person, blast a whistle or loud scream into their ear.  I bet that will take care of it.

Answer 6

nope idk who it is well good luck

Answer 7

that happens to me sometimes. you shouldnt call back cuz then theyre keep doing it to amuse themselves, but if you already have, I usually  just threaten by texting them and saying im calling the police. and then they usually stop.

Answer 8

I'd call back to them from a pay-phone or something before I get the police involved. (Pay-Phone so they don't see your #) And no... I have no clue who it is.

Answer 9

Usually these are automated calls generated by a computer for sales, surveys, or debt collection purposes.. The computer does not always recognize the human voice when you say "hello" and so it does not trigger the recording or the auto-transfer to an awaiting sales operator. The calls will continue for usually 14 days, or until the call is completed by a human on the other end.

Nothing you say or do into the phone reciever will have any effect because you are literally talking to a machine.

Answer 10

Stupid telemarketers. did you know, unfortunatly, that masking your caller ID with something fake is totally legal.

:(

Answer 11

Use call-block. Make sure you are registered on the Do Not Call list. You can have it traced by your telephone company. Good luck!

Answer 12

register your phone on donotcall.gov they sound like solicitors to me

Answer 13

This is a common telemarketing scheme. They use computers to calls all kinds of phone #s. When some answer the computer logs the time you are home to answer. The computer will call about the same time everyday to see if you are home at that time. Once they get enough data of when you are home a sells person will call you.

Answer 14

there are a lot of ways to call a person without showing the original number of the caller aside from the annoying telemarketeers. and i don't think that the caller, per your explanation here comes from telemarketeer since you had picked up the phone and they hang up. as one answered here that auto-telemarketers are using voice recording call, even if you picked up the phone, that call won't be hang up, instead, the voice recording will continue to flow or be heard so as you will know that it really comes from the telemar... but if this call comes from a person who knows you or just want to p**s anyone over the phone, once you pick up the phone they will surely dropped it right away. calling a police is not of help as even police officers cannot trace it right away unless they have to track the calls for a couple of times by themselves. your best bet is to: either use an answering machine and just wait til the caller say something (esp if you know the caller and pick it up) or subscribe to block calls from your provider.

NB1: do not pick up the phone unless you know who the caller is. by picking up the phone from the same caller which you don't know and would just hung up if you pick, the more they will p**s you over and over again, much more if you will get angry to them.

NB2: you may pick it up but answer in a very nice thing: "seemed you've been calling my number so i guess you have something to say which i am here for you to hear what is it". or you could say in another way which will surely let the person to stop calling from you or you would rather ask him/her how to get in touch with him/her in the future. there are a lot of ways how to deal with this kind of call as long as you are too wise to think of things to prevent these kind of calls. you need to be calmed down as angriness toward the caller will never stop them to do so.