Annoying Restricted Calls

get TPS registered

[nme]

Ah So is it like some idiot pranking you? Or just not saying anything, or like a company trying to sell you something??
I'm gonna guess TPS stands for some number tracing device?, As that's also what I'd recommend. We had the same problem a while ago with receiving a 'private number' that was silent for a few seconds, then you heard a click.. Then silence again until you hung up. It rang throughout all hours of the night. I don't know the full story of what happened when we got that tracing box, but it hasn't rang in months anyway.

Edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telepho...erence_Service
Ah, so slightly different..... Anyone have one of those boxes I'm on about? Lets you see all private numbers?

[Beyond]

Oh gay, is that only available in the UK?

[cobrasniper555]

Well...being a programmer, I know it could be an easily programmed bot to call a number multiple times, accurately and with a restricted number prefix (here it's: *67). So this would be my first conclusion as I have noted down behaviors that the sending side is giving off. First, the call ends directly at 5:00 seconds. When I talk, I hear a depleted and distorted version of my voice and what I say, on the receiving end which gives me feeling a may not be a bot. The last is that the sending end doesn't say anything. It's just simply a restricted call that lasts 5 seconds and no one talks.

Ultimately, to fix this issue I would like to learn how to crack through restricted calls and find a number (if possible) or block them indefinitely.

I'm open to all other solutions and ideas!

Thank you A0tu!

P.S - Nme: Will the box work for my cellular phone? From what I hear, they work for landlines. If the box works for mobile phones and gives a number - I would love to get one! I would harass the sh*t out of the people that are doing this to me. Heh.
Cobra

[s25]

Cobra you could divert your number to your landline, That way you could use the box....
The only way I know of getting this info is using social engineering and even then the methods I have heard of seem a bit iffy!

[BringOnTheNubiles]

Originally Posted by cobrasniper555

That's funny Nme! For me actually, it's a mobile (cellular) phone and when I answer, the timer reaches 5 seconds and immediately the other end is hung up. No reply or anything to what I say. I'm thinking it's a bot that is trying to waste my minutes in some slow fashion. It may not seem much of a big deal, but when they call all day, then it starts to really piss me off.

Thanks!
Cobra

I'm not sure but on my old service a cop contacted me once on a number that was restricted or unknown, I don't remember how long ago this was, but I think it was because I had threatened to take action against a security guard if he wouldn't stop stalking and harassing me. (In the subdivision I lived in, he'd keep on tailing me in his minivan, and stay outside my house until I went in.)
I told him if he kept doing this I'd kick his ass.