Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!texbell!chinacat!telecom-gateway From: sharon@asylum.sf.ca.us (Sharon Fisher) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: More On Calls With Nobody There Message-ID: Date: 29 Nov 89 20:00:10 GMT Sender: news@chinacat.Lonestar.ORG Organization: The Asylum, Belmont, CA Lines: 28 Approved: telecom-request@chinacat.lonestar.org X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 541, message 7 of 7 A couple of months back, I posted a message explaining that, in my new apartment, I'd had a number of calls with nobody there. These calls came early in the morning, one after another, etc. The consensus I received here was that the callers thought I was a modem or a fax machine. I called up the phone company's harrassment number and they suggested that perhaps I had too much equipment on the line and that when they tested it, that made the phone ring. I was dubious but tried unplugging things. True, I didn't get the calls. But I hadn't been getting them anyway; this was the third week in October and San Francisco had had an 'event' the week before. I continued to not get the calls for a couple of weeks, but as of a couple of weeks ago, they've started again. But a very interesting thing happened. Yesterday morning I got called at 6:30 am. Instead of hanging up once I'd said 'Hello' a couple of times with no response, I kept on, yelling 'Hello?' for a while. Then someone came on the line! (I've sometimes heard background voices on the calls before.) He asked me who I was. I said, "I don't know, you called me!" [Yes, I know who I am. I was sleepy, okay?) But instead of waiting so I could explain that they'd called me a lot, and maybe fix the problem, he hung up. When the phone rang a couple of minutes later, I tried hanging on again, but the phone got hung up. So, with this new information, anybody got any ideas about what's happening and how I can stop it? Thanks.