Why is someone or something calling my house and just beeps

Question

My phone rang so I picked it up and said hello and got a beep in reply. I then waited a little bit and it beeped again. It kept doing that so I hung up. About 2 minutes later, the phone rang again. I picked it up and IT DID THE SAME THING. Please help me out. I would like to know if my phone is bad or what causes this or who/what this is. Thanks in advance. 10 pts to the best/only answer.

Answer 1

That is a fax trying to fax you. It is either a wrong number or a spam-bot looking for valid fax numbers.

Answer 2

its definately a fax machine.  Its probably junk faxers randomly trying to find a recieivng fax machine.  If it doesnt connect to a fax machine it should quit after a few tries but that said if your number has gotten onto a fax call list it could go on for a very long time.  

Answer 3

Sounds like a fax machine is calling your line. Someone is probably sending  a fax and messed up the phone number and dialing your number instead. I know the fax machines we use at work will beep a few times. To find out where it coming from, if you do not have caller id to see the phone number. You can do *69 (might cost you some change to do it for some phone carriers) it might tell you the phone number. Then you can go to www.411.com and do a reverse phone number look up to see if you can find out if its listed to see who they are.

Answer 4

do you have a fax machine ?

this happened to me before, but it turned out to be a fax trying to come through.. ;]

xo