Mysterious phone calls in the middle of the night (Sun 18/02/2007 AM 0100 and 0400)

eh not tele – another source -I just switched to decaf – gimmie a break 😛

found This in the tele today – maybe its related – maybe its not.

Seems pretty plausible – does explain the fax like noises – but does not explain the call back function we experienced.

If I didn’t need it for broadband, and the fact that my parents are of the ye olde days and get freaked by the idea of making an “expensive” call to a mobile, I would ditch the landline.

The only people who ever call are telemarketers and me/my flatmates’ interstate parents. Thus it has been dubbed “the old people phone”.

Probably just the local manifestation of this scam.

The silence at Chateau Swaggie was broken, according to the wife, at 4:50 because she opened her eyes briefly before kicking me out of bed to answer the damn thing.

i have an unlisted no. and yet received a call from a lovely indian chap, who was calling sequential no.s from a sheet of paper, one after the other until some buggins answers. i asked him to erase my no. from their records, but i guess a computer can call a no. one at a time and send it a fax if it hits jackpot. if not…? well, what do they care?

now that is a practice someone ought to write a letter about and have stopped…

Sometimes it’s easiest just to plug in a fax and see what rolls off. It may be a business trying fax info between offices. A return fax saying “wrong number, morons!” can solve the problem.

Perhaps our glorious telco’s could offer a service where our phone lines are disabled for nominated periods of the night. As previously noted, we all have mobiles anyway.

The Lord doth move in mysterious ways.

A group house I used to live in (in Aranda) inherited the fax number of a Travel Agency that had just closed in Jamison (1995). For our 1st two weeks we had auto fax calls every morning starting at about 430am – with faxes set to redial if not successful (apparently quite common with travel agencies).

Needless to say our number chnaged quick-smart… although the possible widespread nature of this event would indicate this is not the case here. Whilst Auto-dialers are illegal in Oz – they probably are not in some less-savoury, tele-marketing haunts O.S.

If it wasn’t for broadband I would never have a landline. never have it on the hook as only everybody uses mobiles