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I keep getting strange phone calls originating from that number at
all hours at of the morning. I know it is Kenya and I am pretty sure
it is a cell phone but I don't know how to get them to quit calling.
Every time I answer they hangup. You would think they would get the
hint put they call about a couple times a day. I just changed my
phone number because of harassing phone calls, I would rather not have
to go through that again.
Any ideas?

Bill Richards

At 16 Apr 2007 07:43:19 -0700 nickhex@gmail.com wrote:
> I keep getting strange phone calls originating from that number at
> all hours at of the morning. I know it is Kenya and I am pretty sure
> it is a cell phone but I don't know how to get them to quit calling.
> Every time I answer they hangup. You would think they would get the
> hint put they call about a couple times a day. I just changed my
> phone number because of harassing phone calls, I would rather not have
> to go through that again.
> Any ideas?

I'd have just assigned that number a silent ringtone so I wouldn't have
to bother with it and let them call to their hearts' content. Seems
easier than telling all of my contacts that I have a new number.

"Todd Allcock" <elecconnec@AmericaOnLine.com> wrote in message
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> At 16 Apr 2007 07:43:19 -0700 nickhex@gmail.com wrote:
>> I keep getting strange phone calls originating from that number at
>> all hours at of the morning. I know it is Kenya and I am pretty sure
>> it is a cell phone but I don't know how to get them to quit calling.
>> Every time I answer they hangup. You would think they would get the
>> hint put they call about a couple times a day. I just changed my
>> phone number because of harassing phone calls, I would rather not have
>> to go through that again.
>> Any ideas?
>
> I'd have just assigned that number a silent ringtone so I wouldn't have
> to bother with it and let them call to their hearts' content. Seems
> easier than telling all of my contacts that I have a new number.
>
>

I have an old lady here in town that can't seem to figure out how to dial
whatever number it is she's trying to dial. She keeps dialing my home number
& since when I'm on the road (70-80% of the time) I have my home line
forward my calls to my cell I get these call several times a week. I did the
same thing, assign a no ring to her ID. I went one step further & assigned
her ID a "ringback tone" telling her how annoying she is. She still calls
once in a while, but the phone doesn't ring very long(it stills rings
through on my BT headset).

Before they hang up, say some keywords like: oil, nuclear, bomb, anthrax,
and throw in some Arabic words too.


<nickhex@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> I keep getting strange phone calls originating from that number at
> all hours at of the morning. I know it is Kenya and I am pretty sure
> it is a cell phone but I don't know how to get them to quit calling.
> Every time I answer they hangup. You would think they would get the
> hint put they call about a couple times a day. I just changed my
> phone number because of harassing phone calls, I would rather not have
> to go through that again.
> Any ideas?
>
> Bill Richards
>

On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:05:56 GMT, "Roughrider50"
<corkyf56@hotmail.com> wrote:

>I have an old lady here in town that can't seem to figure out how to dial
>whatever number it is she's trying to dial. She keeps dialing my home number
>& since when I'm on the road (70-80% of the time) I have my home line
>forward my calls to my cell I get these call several times a week. I did the
>same thing, assign a no ring to her ID. I went one step further & assigned
>her ID a "ringback tone" telling her how annoying she is. She still calls
>once in a while, but the phone doesn't ring very long(it stills rings
>through on my BT headset).
>

That's what makes call block service from my land line provider so
nice.;-)

"Roughrider50" <corkyf56@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:8WOUh.262995$8_1.35454@fe05.news.easynews.com ...
> I have an old lady here in town that can't seem to figure out how to dial
> whatever number it is she's trying to dial. She keeps dialing my home
> number & since when I'm on the road (70-80% of the time) I have my home
> line forward my calls to my cell I get these call several times a week. I
> did the same thing, assign a no ring to her ID. I went one step further &
> assigned her ID a "ringback tone" telling her how annoying she is. She
> still calls once in a while, but the phone doesn't ring very long(it
> stills rings through on my BT headset).

Several years ago (pre-cellphone days), while living in a medium sized city,
I used to get a lot of calls from an old lady asking for a particular
person. To protect the innocent, we'll say his name was John Smith, but in
fact it was kind of an unusual name; online phone directories currently show
only one person by that name in the entire country. Eventually I decided to
get an unlisted number, and then a few years later I moved out of that city.
Many years after that, I happened to be in a store in that city, and the
boss was talking with someone and identified himself as John Smith (same
name as the person whose phone calls I had been getting). I thought of
telling him about all those phone calls I had gotten, but upon further
consideration, I decided to maintain my low profile and say nothing.

Getting back to Kenya ... you can't really count on Caller-ID. There are
various Caller-ID spoofing services that let you put whatever Caller ID you
want on your call. Maybe someone is stalking you? I'd suggest setting a
ringback tone of either a busy signal or a "This number has been
disconnected" message. If it were me, I'd probably use something like
http://www.dmine.com/phworld/sounds/.../xbar/nsn2.mp3 , but there
probably aren't many people who remember that one.