Paging Verizon gurus...

[LemonZest]

...I know we have some on here.

I have Verizon cellphone service....have had for years and years. I had a Verizon pager before that. I have everything good to say about Verizon service.

Lately, I'm getting calls from two specific numbers over and over. They're wrong numbers (I suspect the calling party is calling the number they want but in the wrong area code...they really want someone with my phone number in a different area code....we have several area codes here) and it's getting really annoying. Today I was up a 12' ladder and this woman *insisted* I "WAS TOO" Patricia Stewart. I'm not Patricia Stewart, never heard of anyone named Patricia Stewart, and I've had this number for YEARS....I don't think it's ever been anyone else's number...and if it was, it was about 12 years ago!

She called six times over the course of my workday today. Most of those times I was up that same ladder! I've explained over and over that I'm not Patricia Stewart and to please stop calling me at work, to no avail.

Is it possible to have a number or numbers blocked from calling my cellphone number? As she always calls during peak time I'm essentially paying for these calls, not to mention how irritating it is to get these useless calls all day long at work.

Thanks in advance,
LemonZest

[Ljt09863]

ive been having the same problems. but i recenetly got a new number. one person called me and at first was all nice and cheerful when they thought iwas whoever they were trying to call. and then when they found out i wasn't them, they got extremely snotty and rude to me.

oh, and did i mention the one man who called my cell at 6:01 A.M. the other day? yeah, that was great. i didn't even get an apology. i answered and at first i thought it was my dad. then he said,"oh, wrong number" and hung up.

but i do know that a girl named Amanda doesn't need to see her doctor anymore, and according to my voicemail, they want to see her at the END of next year, you know, in january or february. thats what they said! i got this voicemail in the beginning of december. so pretty much, they said in 2006 they want to see her at the end of 2007, but in january or febuary. doesn't make sense....

[protege]

Every now and then, I get calls from someone looking for a crackhead named Lamar. How do I know he's a crackhead? Well, past calls have included an employment office, parole officer, and a drug rehab clinic. At least they were all nice when I said that I wasn't him, and they got a wrong number :p

[Greenday]

Back in September, some guy kept calling my cellphone. And it was at times like 3 in the morning. Finally I looked up his phone number, found out what town he was, and when he called back AGAIN, I threatened to call his local PD if he called my number again. It's been pretty silent since.

[TNT]

I'm currently getting harassed by a collection agency... but I'm not the person they're looking for. I turn my phone off during the day... when I turn it back on in the evening, there are at least three calls from the agency.

Last fall, I had an odd incident. One night, a woman kept calling me and asking for her daughter. I know I never met the person she was asking for. The calls grew increasingly desperate as the woman seemed thoroughly convinced I had her daughter's cell phone. (The truly weird part of the story came when the woman threatened to call the cops. A few minutes later, I looked out my window and it seemed like every cop in town was parked on my street. Turned out there was an incident a few doors up from where I live.)

Then the calls ended, presumably because the missing daughter showed up.

About a week later, the same woman called again asking for her daughter.

Me: Honest, I don't know her.
Caller: I know. Why do I keep getting your phone? I have her number on speed dial and sometimes I get her and sometimes I get you. What's going on?

We finally puzzled it out. Say my number without area code is 555-1234. The woman was dialing 555-123-4567. For whatever reasons, her phone was dropping the last three digits... hence, she wound up reaching 555-1234.

Strange. Very strange.

[BlaqueKatt]

sorry can't block specific numbers-however if you have the number or numbers that are calling frequently save them in you phone book under the name ignore(I know my phone allows several entries under each name)-the caller id will say Ignore any you can let it go to voicemail-other suggestions:

tell the caller if they call you again you will file a harassment report
Change your number(normally a last resort)
if the number comes up restricted I believe those can be blocked-but it will block all of them.


BlaqueKatt-Wireless Wench

[LemonZest]

have the number or numbers that are calling frequently save them in you phone book under the name ignore-the caller id will say Ignore any you can let it go to voicemail-
BlaqueKatt-Wireless Wench
Yeppers, did this when it first started (I do this with any wrong number that rings twice...but it still rings when I'm up the ladder, and I have to pull it out of pocket and look at it, because we also use our phones to communicate on the job.


tell the caller if they call you again you will file a harassment report

Done, she doesn't care.


Change your number(normally a last resort)

That's what Verizon said. But I can't, I have a seasonal business that would tank if I wasn't reachable at the same number year after year.

I guess I'm stuck with her until she finds Patricia another way.

Thanks tons for the help though!

LZ

[ringo]

Can you change the ring for that number to no sound & no vibrate?

[AFpheonix]

Heh heh Ringo, that's what I was thinking, but I was thinking something more along the lines of the Imperial March or If I Only Had a Brain ;)

[LemonZest]

Can you change the ring for that number to no sound & no vibrate?

I thought of that over the weekend.

Now she's leaving me hostile voicemails, which is annoying but can be dealt with via the delete key.
I'm not at all sure the calling party isn't a few fries short of a Happy Meal, 'cause my voicemail greeting *clearly* states my real name, my SCA name, AND the name of my company, and NONE of these sound anything like Patricia at all.

Thx, LZ

[LemonZest]

Heh heh Ringo, that's what I was thinking, but I was thinking something more along the lines of the Imperial March or If I Only Had a Brain ;)

LOL that would be hilarious, except:

1) my phone is old and was inexpensive at the time, it predates downloadable ringtones...but I can use it without looking which is handy in my line of work.

2) goofy ringtones aren't allowed on the main jobsite, neither are boomboxes etc., considered a safety hazard.

But it sure would be funny!

LZ

[HYHYBT]

Two thoughts on this: 1) quit deleting the nasty voicemail. Save it and go to the police. 2)Picard had a sex change operation?