phone numbers

[DavidA]

A few years back my number was very similar to the local cable TV's service number. After being cussed out or other rude treatment for telling people they had the wrong number I started telling them that it was too wet, or too cold, or we were too tired to come fix their problem and would then hang up on them. It was fun.

 

[Panache]

Mine was close the cable co too but it was the admin office. Who do they think is going to fix thier cable at 3am, some secretary just waiting for a call???? I would have fun with them. Once someone called three times at about 2am. This time I starting saying "We here have as much of your money as we want, we don't care if your cable ever gets fixed." This is a true statment, I do not want any of their money and I don't care when their cable gets fixed. I would not like to be on the receiving end if they ever got the right number.

 

[survriggs]

I've had a similar problem as follows: We have a business 800 number. Somehow someone has figured out how to make our 800 number show up as the caller id # when they make a call or... there is something screwed up with the AARP phone system. When someone from AARP calls from a certain # the caller id shows up as our 800 #. We have been getting numerous calls telling us to quit calling their phone. We tell them that we are not calling and Centurytel can't find out what's wrong. We haven't got a nasty call for about 2 weeks now but this was real wierd since when we make outgoing calls it shows our normal number and cannot indicate the 800 #. This happen to anyone else?

 

[heehaw]

i had a bunch of toll free lines installed where i "use" to work, and of course, all the numbers had been used before, some for insurance companies, some for other types, anyway, i ended up having a pin number attached to each line that folks had to dial to make the call come thru, that solved all the problems: some people don't think about it, but when you get a wrong call on your toll free line, it ain't free to you..
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