Found out why people keep calling our house ALL day & night long!

[king2005]

Our Ottawa phone # is 1 # off from a new popular Calling Card used to call people over seas!

Aparently the #'s are so close they seem to keep calling us.. During the day is 1 thing but 9-10-11-12-1-2-3-4-5-6 at night is a TOTALLY different thing!

Guess what calling card company is gonna get a nasty call tomorrow to change their #!!

Sorry, we're just SOOO angry cause we thought it was the guy that was harassing Tom with nasty kiddy porn stuff & we didn't know how they kept calling us from so many different # & then the home owners have no idea whats going on when we call & yell at them...

I hope we can get through atleast 1 night with out a phone call, as we cannot turn off the phone, due to Rob's job.

[CathyBogart]

Ugh. That sucks! Awhile ago someone screwed up somewhere and a bunch of calls were getting forwarded from somewhere on the east coast to the store I was working in. Everyone was trying to call one number and getting sent to a reptile store. :rolleyes: Fortunately the phone company fixed it a few hours after it started.

[Corinna]

it can be so annoying we had our 3 published as an elecrical shop

[RedHedd]

Ouch! That's almost as bad as the woman who's phone number is close to the American Idol vote lines. She was on TV the other night - It's become a weekly game to her - she even keeps score, although the votes don't officially count

[Karen]

The company is not going to change their phone number. A better bet is to have them reimburse you whatever it will cost for you to change yours. The company cannot help that people misdial.

At my old job, for a time our 800-number was a digit off from the number for Social Security somewhere in the deep South. We'd say "Hello, (Name of Company) can I help you, and the usually elderly person would launch into their entire story, while we tried to stop them and say "This is NOT Social Security! I cannot help you!!!!"

[Husky_mom]

my parent house # had the last number different as of a theatre and they kept calling for tickets and such, all of a sudden it stopped, maybe they changed the number due to this or dumb people got away from teh phones LOL..............
i hope everything gets fixed its such a pain not having a nice sleep at night

[king2005]

The company is not going to change their phone number. A better bet is to have them reimburse you whatever it will cost for you to change yours. The company cannot help that people misdial.

At my old job, for a time our 800-number was a digit off from the number for Social Security somewhere in the deep South. We'd say "Hello, (Name of Company) can I help you, and the usually elderly person would launch into their entire story, while we tried to stop them and say "This is NOT Social Security! I cannot help you!!!!"


We cannot get our # changed. If we do, we'll loose all our phone #'s. We have Vonage & we started it in Ottawa, so its the ottawa # thats a pain in the beeehind. So if that # is changed, we loose our account, so we'll loose our Mississauga # & we had a hard enough time getting one that worked in our location, Also There are too many companies that have our #'s..

*runs off & sets phone cards on fire*

[Laura's Babies]

One place I lived, soon as I got my phone it started ringing, people wanting to pay their traffic ticket! Darn thing rang all day long so I asked what number they were actually calling and it was actually MY number... so I called the phone company and asked if they gave me the the town hall's OLD number and they checked and had NOT! Next person that called I asked WHERE they got this number FROM... It was printed on the TICKETS they got!.... Next call, TOWN HALL... The calls eventually stopped....

Then I started getting calls for a Odessa...Grrrrrrr!

ONE more phone related peeve... The people who call and say " You called here?" when you answer......

[Maresche]

My previous number at work was exactly one digit off from the local Department of Defense office. I got about 3 calls weekly for them most of the time. Until the DoD issued a letter to certain people asking them to call my number. I called the DoD informing them of their mistake for the first two letters. When the third was sent, I had my office number changed.

Good luck to you, but I think the only way to get a resolution is to change your number.