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

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.

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.

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

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

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!!!!"

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

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Originally Posted by 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!!!!"

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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*

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......

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.