Sprint PCS - Strange, indecipherable calls

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Strange, indecipherable calls

David G. Imber

2007-11-07, 4:33 am

My wife's phone has been ringing for the past several days.
When she picks up she hears something, but it is indecipherable.
Caller ID says "private".

The horrid electronic noises are hollow-sounding, and there
appear to be human voices, but she cannot make out what is being said,
nor can the party on the other side hear her, apparently. I've
listened to these calls myself and can't figure out what's going on.
They also appear to leave voice messages, but these sound the same as
the calls.

We're concerned about two things: The calls come at all hours,
and usually five or six in a row, so that's just annoying. But I'm
also concerned that these calls are originating outside the country,
and that outrageous charges will appear on the bill.

I've just tried writing e-mail to CS, but I think we can all
guess where that will get me.

Any suggestions?

Thanks, DGI

Keith

2007-11-07, 7:33 am

David G. Imber wrote:
> My wife's phone has been ringing for the past several days.
> When she picks up she hears something, but it is indecipherable.
> Caller ID says "private".
>
> The horrid electronic noises are hollow-sounding, and there
> appear to be human voices, but she cannot make out what is being said,
> nor can the party on the other side hear her, apparently. I've
> listened to these calls myself and can't figure out what's going on.
> They also appear to leave voice messages, but these sound the same as
> the calls.
>
> We're concerned about two things: The calls come at all hours,
> and usually five or six in a row, so that's just annoying. But I'm
> also concerned that these calls are originating outside the country,
> and that outrageous charges will appear on the bill.
>
> I've just tried writing e-mail to CS, but I think we can all
> guess where that will get me.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks, DGI
>
Have you read S. King's book Cell?

Todd Allcock

2007-11-07, 10:33 am

At 07 Nov 2007 00:21:44 -0500 David G.Imber wrote:

> We're concerned about two things: The calls come at all hours,
> and usually five or six in a row, so that's just annoying.

Very.

Is there a way to assign a different ringtone (i.e. a single beep or a
blank .wav file) to private calls? That would at least reduce the
annoyance factor.

> But I'm
> also concerned that these calls are originating outside the country,
> and that outrageous charges will appear on the bill.

Maybe their bill, but you don't pay extra to _receive_ international
calls!

David G. Imber

2007-11-08, 3:33 pm

On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 11:16:52 GMT, Keith <keithvt@nospam.verizon.net>
wrote:

>David G. Imber wrote:
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>Have you read S. King's book Cell?

I have not, but I must admit that when I listened to the
wildly distorted sounds that included chunks of human voices I thought
of that Michael Keaton movie "White Noise".

DGI

David G. Imber

2007-11-08, 3:33 pm

On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 06:28:22 -0700, Todd Allcock
< elecconnec@AmericaOn
Line.com> wrote:

>At 07 Nov 2007 00:21:44 -0500 David G.Imber wrote:
>
>
>Very.
>
>Is there a way to assign a different ringtone (i.e. a single beep or a
>blank .wav file) to private calls? That would at least reduce the
>annoyance factor.

That's a great idea, thank you. The calls seem to have
subsided for now.
>
>
>
>Maybe their bill, but you don't pay extra to _receive_ international
>calls!

My imagination may have been running wild, but I thought I
once read of some sort of nefarious scheme where people were able to
somehow piggyback on other people's cell signals to make charge-free
calls.

More likely, having been through something like this before,
this has to do with a mix-up in the back end between Sprint and Nextel
assigned numbers. My wife's number was once subject to an odd
configuration error that Sprint insisted didn't exist for four months,
until I got a Nextel tech to admit to it.

DGI

Keith

2007-11-11, 7:33 am

David G. Imber wrote:
> On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 11:16:52 GMT, Keith <keithvt@nospam.verizon.net>
> wrote:
>
>
>
>
> I have not, but I must admit that when I listened to the
> wildly distorted sounds that included chunks of human voices I thought
> of that Michael Keaton movie "White Noise".
>
> DGI
>
I thought that was a scary movie, but in Cell a virus gets in the cell
phone system and when people answer their cell phone it rewrites their
brain programing. Chaos ensues and it boils down to the typical King
good vs. evil story.

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