Prank calls

[Yorkshire Tea]

Looks like someone wants to play games tonight, I have had 19 calls in an hour all with a withheld number bar one, all silent and they hang up rather quick, Seen as I have the number what can I do to get them stopped. I have turned my phone off for now.

[Parrot of Doom]

Call the number repeatedly at 4AM.

[Big Al.]

If you are with BT IIRC you can ring them and put that number on block or something very similar.

[Yorkshire Tea]

Big Al. said:

If you are with BT IIRC you can ring them and put that number on block or something very similar.

Its on my mobile and its another mobile that is ringing me, I think it could be the Mrs's ex as he did it when we got together same times of the day as now, but that was 4 years ago, maybe some people dont grow up.

[P-J]

have you tried ringing it??

[Yorkshire Tea]

I did and they dont say anything, so I think I must know them and they dont want me to recognise their voice.

Edited by Yorkshire Tea on Saturday 5th September 23:38

[anonymous-user]

Have a look through the options on your phone, mine can be set to automatically redirect a set of numbers to voicemail without ringing.

[AB]

Erm... post it here, we hammer it, the calls stop.

[al1991]

Parrot of Doom said:

Call the number repeatedly at 4AM.

I'd go with this. Or pay a teenage chav to ring the number every night for a week continually. Give them your change jar so they can use a pay phone and you're away

[Airbag]

I'm sorry, I just don't have the words to tell you how much I love you.

[ipwn]

hmmmm my friend told me a very similar story to the op.

I assumed scam?

[Ikemi]

AB said:

Erm... post it here, we hammer it, the calls stop.

This! We'll sign up his mobile to lots of spam mail lists too ... If the calls from us don't annoy him, the random texts will

[Evangelion]

Many years ago when I was working in a shop I charged the wrong price for a TV. I went round to see the customer but she refused to pay the extra. I explained that if anything went wrong with it the repair would be chargeable, as she had the wrong model number on the receipt. She then accused me of trying to blackmail her so I got nowhere and had to cough up the extra myself. It was only £12 but this was a lot in 1976. For several years afterwards this woman was woken up at all hours of the night by her phone ringing, then the caller hanging up (this was years before 1471.)

By the way I am not proud of this.

[T_Pot]

Evangelion said:

Many years ago when I was working in a shop I charged the wrong price for a TV. I went round to see the customer but she refused to pay the extra. I explained that if anything went wrong with it the repair would be chargeable, as she had the wrong model number on the receipt. She then accused me of trying to blackmail her so I got nowhere and had to cough up the extra myself. It was only £12 but this was a lot in 1976. For several years afterwards this woman was woken up at all hours of the night by her phone ringing, then the caller hanging up (this was years before 1471.)

By the way I am not proud of this.

I should think your not proud, personally think its disgusting,.you simply should not have stopped lmao

[The Nur]

T_Pot said:

Evangelion said:

Many years ago when I was working in a shop I charged the wrong price for a TV. I went round to see the customer but she refused to pay the extra. I explained that if anything went wrong with it the repair would be chargeable, as she had the wrong model number on the receipt. She then accused me of trying to blackmail her so I got nowhere and had to cough up the extra myself. It was only £12 but this was a lot in 1976. For several years afterwards this woman was woken up at all hours of the night by her phone ringing, then the caller hanging up (this was years before 1471.)

By the way I am not proud of this.

I should think your not proud, personally think its disgusting,.you simply should not have stopped lmao

I agree, you little pansy stopping after only several years

Edited by The Nur on Sunday 6th September 15:51

[TheArchitect]

Get that number on here and then we can start to abuse it.

[DrTre]

TheArchitect said:

Get that number on here and then we can start to abuse it.

"01224 888 666 you're a st number. Look at you. All curvy and bendy. You'll never amount to st in life. You make me sick. 01114 111 777, now there's a number. You worthless piece of crap"

[MrV]

Yorkshire Tea said:

Looks like someone wants to play games tonight, I have had 19 calls in an hour all with a withheld number bar one, all silent and they hang up rather quick, Seen as I have the number what can I do to get them stopped. I have turned my phone off for now.

A whistle or a air horn tends to stop these calls fairly quickly

[Working class]

I am on a 12 hour night shift tonight, happy to ring it at all hours for you, i have lots of free minutes and an immature nature!

[speedychrissie]

I used to get a lot of spam calls on my home phone, but I never use the phone and never give it out to anyone important, therefore when the phone broke I didn't replace it. Instead I can be happy that if anyone is trying to ring me to sell me stuff I dont need they are just getting an ongoing ring until they decide to try someone else. It is the perfect solution.