by Dreams End » Tue Mar 14, 2006 11:57 am
Some of you have been following the story of my wife. She's back from the hospital and feeling better. However, I need some assistance if anyone understands the modern phone system. <br><br>My stepdaughter is receiving repeated phone calls both from "unknown" and from a phone number I'll list below. While I'm familiar with the evil of automated dialing telemarketing, which will keep calling till you answer...usually that's just like once a day. This is 8 calls yesterday.<br><br>The thing is, the phone number doesn't exist. In fact, the AREA code of the phone number doesn't even exist (found one reference to it as "reserved"). It could be that a cell phone carrier has this area code and it's not showing up on the internet yet. Calling it (yes, I did think of that THANKS) just gets a message that it's an "incorrect" number. They were stupid enough to call repeatedly so I have no issue publishing the number:<br><br>461-651-2610<br><br><br>A couple of months ago, my stepdaughter, in front of us, got a call. We only heard her say "you have the wrong number." Whoever it was, asked for "Sara" which is not her name. When she told him it was not her name, he said "Are you SURE?" and she said it was really creepy. She was very quiet for a bit.<br><br>Her cell phone had said Chicago, but I regret to say that I didn't write down that number.<br><br>This gets a little creepier given that my wife had an alter appear for the first time a few months ago that we'd been calling "silence" but who, ultimately, turned out to want to be called "Sara". And that name, in fact, is the name my wife's mom had been planning to name her.<br><br>Anyway, I would like anything and everything anyone can find on this area code of 461. She has so far never answered these calls as they happen while she's at school. It could be a matter of a company trying to fax or something, but the calls are pretty spread throughout the day. And, of course, they are from a phone number that doesn't exist.<br><br>Oh, so, help on the area code and also help with this: is it possible to program a cell phone or something to give a fake phone number? I know you can block the info, but I don't think it should be possible to get a fake number that records on caller ID.<br><br>Please....if anyone has any suggestions about how to research this, let me know. It may be nothing (my stepdaughter is always, and without permission, ordering stupid stuff for her phone...ring tones, and such. This could be related to that bad habit.) but if she's also involved in all this, it's time to kick this up a little and start to disclose to my wife's therapist that something is going on. I can't do that till I have some evidence. <p></p><i></i>