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Need Freeper Help to stop unwanted phone calls
Posted on 05/28/2004 8:25:58 AM PDT by ladyjane
At 8:15 this morning the phone started ringing. A fax machine is now dialing my number every 2 minutes. I tried returning the call but it's always busy. I have called the operator who said their company will try (3 times) to send a fax. I can't take the phone off the hook because I'm waiting for a delivery. A long weekend is ahead.
Freepers always have the best ideas. Help!
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It is quite possible that this is not a spam fax but a misdialed number which happens quite frequently. Somebody punched your number in by mistake or by transposing a couple of digits and the sending fax machine just keeps dialing it because it is set to do that.
One other shot you might take is to dial numbers just up a couple from the sending fax number (if you have it) as fax lines are often just one or two numbers off from the voice lines in small companies. i.e voice 888-2000; fax 888-2001.
This will at least give you something to try while you are preparing to hurl the phone at the wall. Good luck.
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posted on
05/28/2004 8:39:35 AM PDT
by
Da Mav
To: chance33_98
~~Pick up the phone and make fax noises and try to communicate with it :)~~
Hey, I saw that work in Terminator III.
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posted on
05/28/2004 8:42:14 AM PDT
by
mlbford2
(Sorry for spelling errors, I'm a product of a state university)
To: ladyjane
This happened to me about a month ago. I called the phone company and they gave me a number to key into the phone the next time it happened. It will send an error code to the fax machine to let it know that it is dialing an invalid fax number. The calls stopped.
To: ladyjane
receive the fax.. and be done with it..
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posted on
05/28/2004 8:44:53 AM PDT
by
hosepipe
(This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole....)
To: WhiteGuy
~~My advice to you is to start drinking heavily.~~
That's what I did, but then the ringing got louder. So, I started smoking tons of pot and then I started getting ocean noises in my head. So then I load up on a Thorizin/Ocicontin cocktail and all seems to be good now.
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posted on
05/28/2004 8:44:59 AM PDT
by
mlbford2
(Sorry for spelling errors, I'm a product of a state university)
To: ladyjane
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posted on
05/28/2004 8:46:41 AM PDT
by
Saundra Duffy
(Save Terri Schiavo!!!)
To: taxed2death
what a beautiful thought. Now you've got me hoping someone will try faxing me repeatedly so I can follow the steps you outlined.
To: ladyjane
![](http://members.shaw.ca/victoriausa/SaberCrouch.jpg)
I have a friend at the phone company. Post your number and I'll e-mail this thread to him so that he can look into it.
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posted on
05/28/2004 8:56:42 AM PDT
by
Sabertooth
(Mohammed wrote: "Cut off their heads, and cut off the tips of their fingers." (Sura 8:12))
To: Sabertooth
That's what i did. Get the # off caller Id and call the phone company to see who it belongs to. Then call the head of the company.
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posted on
05/28/2004 9:00:11 AM PDT
by
marty60
To: ladyjane
Your local phone company can probably block that number for you.
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posted on
05/28/2004 9:03:09 AM PDT
by
wingnutx
(tanstaafl)
To: mlbford2
Judging from how you spelled "Thorazine®" and "OxyContin®", I'd agree that you're at about the right level now.
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posted on
05/28/2004 9:03:09 AM PDT
by
George Smiley
(It amazes me how easily John Kerry can straddle both sides of the fence for any given issue.)
To: mlbford2
I, myself, Never mix Thorazine and Oxycontin.
Of course you didn't mention Morphine suppositories...........
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posted on
05/28/2004 9:04:44 AM PDT
by
WhiteGuy
(Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press...)
To: ladyjane
Since this is most likely a cooperate automated fax systems, there are two possible solutions.
1) simply receive the fax. That works if it is a single fax and the message is not part of some marketing effort.
2) Another option is to tell the sending computer that this is no longer a working number. This will cause most commercial fax applications to take your number off the list.
To accomplish this, get a small cassette recorder and dial a none working number. One of the ways to fine a none working number is to start with your number and add a 1 and dial. It takes a little bit but odds are you will find a none working number in 25 attempts. Once you have found a none working number, hang up and get your cassette recorder ready to record. Call the number again and record the Beep beep BEEP tones. These are the tones that tell computer systems that this is a none working number.
Then change your answering machine message. Start the recording with the three tones, pause for a second or two, then record your greeting.
After that, all you will need to do is screen your calls. When an automated fax program calls your number it will hear those tones and record your number as a none working number and take it off their fax list. Sounds complicated but it is not really.
Try receiving the fax first. If you still get the calls, go to the backup plan. BTW, the three tone solution works well against telemarketers as well.
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posted on
05/28/2004 9:04:47 AM PDT
by
taxcontrol
(People are entitled to their opinion - no matter how wrong it is.)
To: Da Mav; All
Great ideas. I don't have a fax machine. I'm trying to borrow one right now!
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posted on
05/28/2004 9:06:28 AM PDT
by
ladyjane
To: George Smiley
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posted on
05/28/2004 9:07:32 AM PDT
by
Armedanddangerous
(The first rule of gunfighting is to have a gun...more than one, if possible..)
To: ladyjane
Change your number to an unlisted one.
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posted on
05/28/2004 9:08:39 AM PDT
by
boris
(The deadliest weapon of mass destruction in history is a Leftist with a word processor)
To: ladyjane
Forward your phone to someone you don't like.
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posted on
05/28/2004 9:09:42 AM PDT
by
EUPHORIC
(Right? Left? Read Ecclesiastes 10:2 for a definition. The Bible knows all about it!)
To: marty60
I got the phone number to return the call but it's constantly busy of course. I did call similar numbers - the first five digits and then added two zeros - and finally got a company that said it "might" be one of their numbers. In the meantime I'm trying to find out how to 'call forward' to a friend's answering machine.
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posted on
05/28/2004 9:11:42 AM PDT
by
ladyjane
To: ladyjane
Forward your phone to your local Democratic headquarters.
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posted on
05/28/2004 9:12:30 AM PDT
by
SirChas
To: Sabertooth
The number calling me is 703 480-7270
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posted on
05/28/2004 9:14:23 AM PDT
by
ladyjane
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