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latakia@ix.netcom.com (J.A. Hitchcock) wrote:
>We have Return Call (hit the # sign, then 69).  There have been
>numerous times when we'll get calls and I'll do Return Call and the
>message is "I'm sorry, but this phone number is out of the service
>area."  When I called Bell Atlantic, they said it was either a pay
>phone or a cellular phone.

>We were getting these calls at almost the same time every night for
>about a month, then they became random.  We'd pick up, say "Hello?"
>several times.  You could hear someone breathing, but there'd be no
>answer and after a long while, they'd hang up.  That's when we ordered
>Return Call.  We kind of freaked, thinking someone was casing our
>house, but the calls have stopped all of a sudden.

>One person said it was telemarketers and another said it was Bell
>Atlantic trying to drum up more business (ha ha). 

>Anyone else get these?

We get those type of phone call all too often! They are telemarketers,
we called Bell Atlantic thinking our phone had problems and got the
skinny.  What happened is these telemarkers have a huge room full of
people and phones with the phone system rigged to call numbers at a
rapid rate and the call is picked up by whoever in the place is not
already on a call.  If everyone is on a call and no telemarketer picks
up the line,you answer the phone and nobody is on the line you just
hear the sound of the computer.


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