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Orange: Abusive Phone Calls - help?!
OK, I've been receiving phone calls from a lady who i've never met before and clearly has the wrong number. I keep explaining this to her and she continues to become abusive and when I reject the calls she leaves messages on my mobile answerphone which are a load of crap and then starts swearing. The other day I also received a phone call from an 08700 number, which I rejected. [Which makes me wonder if she forgot to 141 it], or it could just be unrelated
I don't give out my number to anyone I don't trust, and clearly I don't know this person. The phone and sim is only about 10 months old from an Orange shop. Being on Orange Pay As You Go, is there anything I can do stop these phone calls and what are the options I can do? |
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1) contact ORANGE customer services, they will have various options.
2) access your own voicemail and change the greeting from the standard voice to your own recording saying:- "to the abusive caller , you obviously have the wrong number , I do not know you and do not recognise your voice . The phone company has been notified of your calls and are investigating them so please do not call again" Hope this is successful for you |
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Originally posted by AVTECH Also, dont call 451 as that will charge you. Go to 450, the 3 then type in some nonsense, followed by the hash, till it says connecting you to the orange customer services.1) contact ORANGE customer services, they will have various options. 2) access your own voicemail and change the greeting from the standard voice to your own recording saying:- "to the abusive caller , you obviously have the wrong number , I do not know you and do not recognise your voice . The phone company has been notified of your calls and are investigating them so please do not call again" Hope this is successful for you Thanh |
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Ages ago, I got a phone call from a woman asking if this was Micheal Barymore. I said no and she started asking me what my name was. I freaked out and said you've got the wrong number and hung up. How could she possibly think that a 13 year old boy who's voice hasn't broken is Michael Barymore?! If she rings again, I'd start making fun of them!
(PS, I'm on O2) |
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Contact your local Police station as the caller is committing a criminal offence. They will tell you where to go from there. Keep all of your voice messages saved so that you can let the police officer heat them.
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and they can trace the persons number and prosecute them hehe. so yeh contact the police!
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I had a similar problem about 2 years ago, but it wasn't my mobile; it was my landline.
This pissed woman had entered our home number into her mobile's phone book, instead of someone else's. She would phone at all hours of the day and night, always really pissed and sometimes upset. She would ask for Brian, and we would explain no-one in our house was called Brian. She never believed us, just repeated thinks like "Oh, please... I know he's there, please just let me speak to him..." etc. She wasn't abusive, but did get quite angry sometimes. I think we got around 50 calls over a 2 month period. After repeatedly telling her that if she didn't stop calling our house, I would call the police, that is exactly what I did. They put some block on my line which prevented her number from dialling ours. Instead of getting through, she would get a recorded message warning her she must stop dialling this number. She would get this message five times; as soon as she tries a sixth she gets a visit from the police. I don't know what happened to the woman eventually but I know she definitely got her visit. Mind you, this wouldn't stop her from phoning from a phone box or somewhere else. But we didn't have that problem. But don't bother changing your voicemail message or anything like that; Ignite is quite right, just contact the police and they will sort it out, it's what they're there for. As a footnote, withholding your number only prevents the other end from seeing the number; BT and the police still know who's dialled who. |
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Thanks for your help guys. It seems to have ended for the time being, but I will use one of these ideas if it happens again.
I hate people who persistantly ring thinking they've got the right number, when obviously they haven't. |
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Join Date: Feb 2004
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if you cant get rid of em, join em!
hi everyone,
im new to DS and I actually signed up just to post on this thread, but yeah.. ive head quite a few problems with people doing the same, im in Sydney, Australia.. using Optus (Hudson Telecom!!!) landline, aswell as an Optus Prepaid sim and a Vodafone Prepaid Sim (both with great rates.. but really expensive compared to the british rates!) optus: 37c/30sec!!!! 25c texts!!! expensive GPRS/WAP!!! 20c flagfall!!!! however, after 8pm (to 7am) its 30c for 10mins to any phone in Australia.. which is OK, I guess.... voda: 49c/min!!! (considered CHEAP!) 25c texts!!! relatively cheap GPRS/WAP!!! no flagfall and nothing special... but yeah, i get quite alot of harrassment on my voda line, since its a very easy to remember number... the british mobile phone number format is 077******** right? well, here its: 04******** and my voda number is: 0410140300 so people just randomly dial it... miss-type it and a whole load of rubbish, and like what hap'd to one of our friends here... she just didnt stop, saying i was lying etc etc... eventually i just cracked it, since the cops did squat, and voda just shrugged their shoulders.. i hooked up my pc to my landline.. and i set it to dial, ring once, and disconnect. then 10seconds later, do the same.. since i have 2 landlines, its great.. and so yeah, i just got my revenge that way.. maybe cost me 5c when she picked up a few times, but i let it go on for 48hours straight, and well yeah, havnt had any problems with her since.. but thats extreme. its also harrassment and you should go to the cops first, the australian cops are realllly lazy and stupid (no offense.. some do their jobs!) but compared to the british cops, their all pigs... im 16, i lived in london with my family for 14.5yrs (0 being my birth) and then migrated to syd.. its aight.. but yeah, reading posts on british websites brings it all back... but yeah, the harrassing thing is quite funny... as a joke, its funny to do to some unsuspecting friend, and all you have to do is dial the prefix so it blocks your caller id from being sent, and its quite funny at 1am! "dont try it at home folks!" j.
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dont get traced either!
hi again,
Also just wanted to say, there's a great way to decrease the chance of you being traced on a call (dont ask why you would wanna do that.. but yeah, you shouldnt need to unless your doing something illegal..) being traced is basically energy and signals travelling from your phone connection to the person tracing you, the infomation is watched as it goes through, getting tagged etc, so the person finds out which hub your using etc, and naturally narrows it down... however, if you remove the infomation, or drain the energy.. they cant trace you.. because there's nothing for them to watch.. and thats easy to do.. simply get the main socket for your landline, and wire it upto to some electrical appliance.. something small, but'll suck up all the power.. i used a mobile phone (to charge) when i tried it out.. the phone sucks the power up from the line to charge, and there isnt enough power left to go back.. therefore the trace simply wont occur! and its great.. great when there's some smart arse trying to find out where you live to scare you! lol... but yeah, make sure you do it right... and im not joking about the energy thing! everyone knows there is electricity in the phone lines, thats why phones dont need batteries to ring! the ringing electricity and messages comes through the phone line! suck up the power = no trace. ... enjoy this lil piece of info! and dont miss use it!!!!! enjoy, j.
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Re: dont get traced either!
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Originally posted by BBJ Never heard so much bollocks in my entire life hi again, Also just wanted to say, there's a great way to decrease the chance of you being traced on a call (dont ask why you would wanna do that.. but yeah, you shouldnt need to unless your doing something illegal..) being traced is basically energy and signals travelling from your phone connection to the person tracing you, the infomation is watched as it goes through, getting tagged etc, so the person finds out which hub your using etc, and naturally narrows it down... however, if you remove the infomation, or drain the energy.. they cant trace you.. because there's nothing for them to watch.. and thats easy to do.. simply get the main socket for your landline, and wire it upto to some electrical appliance.. something small, but'll suck up all the power.. i used a mobile phone (to charge) when i tried it out.. the phone sucks the power up from the line to charge, and there isnt enough power left to go back.. therefore the trace simply wont occur! and its great.. great when there's some smart arse trying to find out where you live to scare you! lol... but yeah, make sure you do it right... and im not joking about the energy thing! everyone knows there is electricity in the phone lines, thats why phones dont need batteries to ring! the ringing electricity and messages comes through the phone line! suck up the power = no trace. ... enjoy this lil piece of info! and dont miss use it!!!!! enjoy, j.
Next you're gonna tell us how to view our phone bills with a crystal ball...? You can get into SERIOUS trouble for 'wardialing', so I wouldn't recommend anyone try it. |
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o0o0o a brain!
yo,
hahha.. im glad one of you have a brain.. saw the same post (the one i posted) on another message board, just wanted to put it on and see how many morons would try it... like you said, war dialing is seriously illegal... like someone else said in the post, BT etc still get your number, and their staff will get flashing red screens (probably) when you war dial etc, and before you know it, they cut off your connection, charge you a whopping big fine aswell as release your info to the cops aswell as the person your pissing off. would be fun to do from someone elses pc :P nah nah.. too much effort, unless you had a trojan or something, but thats just sad.. and highly unlikely, since that person needs to be online for the trojan to control em (most of the time) so yeah... blah.. laters, j. |
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i was watching a program, on tele (i think it was csi miami) and they had a telephone tht was untracable and had no number. its the telephone used by phone repair people to check if the lines working. very handy for pranking people i think! but just thought it was relevant..
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Test phones still have to be plugged into a line. Generally the engineer just plugs them into the line they wish to test at the cabinet. Calls made from the phone can still be traced, they just appear to have come from the registered owner of the line. As far as I am aware a lot of test phones are limited to a maximum call length to prevent engineers racking up a huge bill for a customer. NTL have had problems with people opening up their cabinets and making free calls in this fashion.
On fully digital mobile networks it is possible for engineers to make calls that appear to originate from anywhere in the country with the right engineering codes. Used to test the config for calling routing by area (Zone Plan). |
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we had an issue with someone calling our landline with very abusive calls, after contacting NTL, they put a bar on our line to prevent the calls, and adviced us to report it to the police.
I don't know about where you live, but in cambridgeshire, you can report non-emmergency crimes online, they are very good with it, when my bike was stolen we submitted the report online, and got a phonecall from our local station within 15 minutes. |
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would be fun to do from someone elses pc :P nah nah.. too much effort, unless you had a trojan or something, but thats just sad.. and highly unlikely, since that person needs to be online for the trojan to control em (most of the time) so yeah... blah..
BBJ, you sound like exactly the sort of person that call-tracing technology was designed to weed out.Oh, but I suppose you were only joking, eh? |
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Originally posted by Danny Hart Sounds more like a 15 year old boy that's read a couple of terms on the internet and is now bandying them about to seem knowledgeable to me.BBJ, you sound like exactly the sort of person that call-tracing technology was designed to weed out. Oh, but I suppose you were only joking, eh? I've never met an '1337-hax0r' that says "yeah, I'll use sub-seven's finest trojan to hack into this guy's computer"... |
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that says "yeah, I'll use sub-seven's finest trojan to hack into this guy's computer"...