Family fed up with five years of wrong number calls(VIDEO)

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[matt04]

A Newington woman receives as many as 25 phone calls a day from people looking for information on Infinity Hall. However, the woman does not work for the music hall in Norfolk and the number is to her house.

According to Linda Fascelle, her phone number is one number different than Infinity Hall. The prefix for Fascelle's number is 860 and Infinity's is 866.

Fascelle's number is also incorrectly listed on Google Places as the number for Infinity Hall, which leads to the influx of daily phone calls for reservations, show times and other information.

[matt04]

In the video the women likes "her" number and is upset that Infinity "took" it. No, they got a toll free 866 number and you have the same number with the 860 area code. Google issue aside, you will get numerous incorrect phone calls either way.

Change the number, you friends and relatives won't mind OR turn down the ringer and use Caller ID and don't answer calls from random people.

[Jeff Chandler]

Years ago we had a number that was identical to that of a balloon delivery company except for two transposed numbers. We got so many calls for the company that we finally changed our number.

Looking back on that time, I realize that the smart thing to do would have been to open a balloon delivery company of my own.

[GreatRoad]

This reminds me of a Seinfeld episode where Kramer’s number is one off from moviefone and he makes up answers to callers, it was pretty funny.

[sheikdetailfeather]

I am spoofing telemarketers who have been more than rabid lately. I went to the website below and played the 6th recording (mp3) into my cordless home phone answering machine as my announcement when people call. It is the tone that tells them the phone has been disconnected. (snicker) You hear “We’re sorry! This phone has been disconnected” yada yada... (just like what you would normally hear if you dialed a disconnected number. I hit “Replay two more times on the mp3 on the website and then saved it as my announcement so it plays a total of three times in sequence just like it sounds if you dial a disconnected number. I set it to pick up on 2 rings. I love it. It is working like a charm so far! I sent out an email to all my family and friends advising them about this and said “If I see it is you on caller ID and can pick up in time all is well. If I don’t, just leave a message after the beep as my phone is not disconnected.”

http://www.payphone-directory.org/sounds.html

I was getting some weird numbers calling that could not be blocked by the phone company I use as they were all zeros, or 123456789, etc.. Even expensive call blocker machines cannot block those so I figured I would try this. Last week I played this for one of them:

Machine Gun Sound Affect:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m79NA44jYk&feature=related

[dfwgator]

"I love wrong numbers."

[yawningotter]

My parents have had that problem with various numbers through the years, but the funniest is a local law office where my oldest brother’s wife works, so sometimes they have people who dialed a wrong number asking for a member of the family who may actually be in the house if they call at the right time.

[PLMerite]

“Looking back on that time, I realize that the smart thing to do would have been to open a balloon delivery company of my own.”

The *fun* thing to do would to have pretended to be the real company and taken people’s orders...

[PLMerite]

Right after I saw that movie, I had the chance to do it for real at work...but that wouldn’t have gone over well on a secure line.

[Raven6]

When I was a kid, the local Dairy Queen changed their phone number to one that was on the new “381” prefix... It had the same last four digits as our old “388” prefix number. The phone-in orders started arriving via telephone shortly thereafter. After about two days of calls, mom had had enough. She didn’t act ugly about it... She didn’t confront a soul. She just very politely started taking orders, making sure to cross-sell and up-sell at every opportunity, and thanked the person placing the order for calling Dairy Queen. She advised them that their order would be ready when they got there. I lost count of how many orders she took. In less than 2 weeks, the good old DQ made it a point to have their number changed to another that had no similar numbers in the area. :-D

[Rembrandt]

I got really tired of getting phone calls to my new number intended for the previous holder of that number. I solved the problem.

He’s in jail.

He died.

The police took him away for something.

The calls stopped pretty soon after that. Take some action yourself!

[mass55th]

My number is the same as a jail in another county, but with a different area code. I’ve had calls from all sorts of people, including the Border Patrol and a Judge.

[smokingfrog]

Sue Google

[Minutemen]

Is this the biggest problem this woman has in her life? Suicide may be the only solution!

[jimpick]

I use to get faxes for a cabinet company that is across the street from me. They gave out my number by mistake. I would walk their orders over to them and they would give me a soda.

[firebrand]

Is this Cake Masters?
No, it’s not.
Hello, Cake Masters?
No, this is NOT Cake Masters
Cake Masters?
NO THIS IS NOT CAKE MASTERS!!!!!
If it’s not Cake Masters, why are you answering the phone?

[I Drive Too Fast]

Hello.
May I have information on Infinity Hall.
Sure thing, but before you say another word if you can get down here in the next 2 hours we are having an all-you-can-eat buffet for just $1.95. We're doing a 1950's pricing deal.

Or

May I have information on Infinity Hall?
No.

[Ezekiel]

Years ago when we moved into our new home, we received many calls from people looking for a particular reverend. We wondered what kind of reverend would move or change his number without getting word out to his flock. Okay, maybe these folks were using an out-of-date phone book?

This went on for several years, but the volume of calls did not get to the point where we wanted to change the number. Got pretty close at times, though.

Now over this span of time, it became obvious that the callers fell into two distinct categories: the elderly, and collection agents. Oy.

[kabumpo]

Years ago I had a phone # one digit off from an ultra upscale fashionable restaurant. The first month I was polite, the next month I started accepting reservations for four to six people on weekend nights. A month later the restaurant changed its #.

[Einherjar]

I keep getting a robo-call from “Rebecca”. who is going to reduce the interest rate on my credit cards (which are 0 balance), “this is your last chance to take advantage of our offer” , must be the 3oth call, I am instructed to push 3 if i want to be taken off their list, or push 1 to speak to an operator. I always push 1 and hand the phone to my 4 year old Grandchild.

[muir_redwoods]

I would tell every wrong number that the music hall is now closed and out of business. I would let Infinity Hall know I would be doing it. Let them decide if they want to change their number for 25 customers a day.

I had a phone number once with the numeral 4 repeated three times in a row. Apparently this caused some people trouble as I got a fair number of wrong numbers. One callEr called every few days and simply asked, “Joey dere?”, no hello, no nothing. It was annoying. We explained each time that once again he had the wrong number. Finally one day I simply told him, as solemnly as I could with great sorrow in my voice the Joey had died in an awful car crash. The guy never called again.

Yes, I can be a pain in the ass sometimes.