bizarre phone calls from strangers

That IS bizarre....I've never heard of such a thing....

 

Honestly though what can verizon do about different numbers calling you. In the long run you would have to block all incoming numbers or change your number. It is not like Verizon can just say stop and it will stop. Have you tried asking them who they are or if they are a business?? Do more investigating from your end dont expect any carrier to magically stop unwanted calls.

 

Certainly could be possible someone has given out the wrong number to their friends, or in the case of my first home phone, be one number off from a major store that did a large amount of TV advertising. Their number ended in a 6 and mine in a 9, I constantly got misdials.

 

If you want you can PM me the numbers and I will use my resources to try and tell you who it is!!!

 

This absolutely has nothing to do with you having a Verizon phone, nor does Verizon not have anything better to do than call you from different phones every day.
Best solution: Change your Number, unless someone you give your number to is involved with this.

 

Years ago back on Alltel I used to get calls asking for a Ashton. And when I said I wasn't they wanted to know where he was.

I guess Ashton had my number before I got it lol.

 

I get even more bizarre random calls on my work cell phone (AT&T). They are not as frequent though, maybe 3 times a month. They are always different numbers, and when I answer the call, the other end is a recording, in some Arabic-sounding language, and is in the middle of a sentence each time. VERY strange.

 

Guys, it does not matter what network you are on when you get strange and bizarre phone calls. You are not getting those phone calls from your respective carriers. Either someone is fooling with you or someone owned your number before and people keep calling it...there are tons of other reasons why this may be happening.
My Mom's number is a Cricket number(she started service with Cricket about 4 years ago), then ported to Verizon 3 years ago and has been getting calls once or twice a month, from the beginning, asking for a specific person. Same person they ask for, whether she was on Cricket or Verizon. These phone calls have nothing to do with your respective carriers, but with your number.

 

It is actually Andy and his brigade that call you all.

 

LOL. In the early 90's I used to get a lot of calls for CellularONE, (and then Cingular after the merger) on my cell. I didn't know why until I mentioned it to a dealer after I had the number for a few years. When he looked at the number again he immediately recognized it. It used to be a local number to call to get customer service in the mid 90's, and the calls were forwarded to the call center. It was so bad that my voicemail message said "You have reached the voicemail of Jay Sincavage. This is a personal telephone line and I DO NOT WORK FOR CELLULARONE. If you are calling for CellularONE please hang up and dial 611." If I did not recognize the number I'd let it go to voicemail. Most often I would not get a message, but sometimes people were so dense they would still leave irate messages on my voicemail. On at least 2 occasions I had to call the people back and explain that they had the wrong number and to stop calling me because I was only on a 200 minute plan.

Another time someone called me in the middle of the night and left a 5 minute long voicemail. They were drunk and apparently misdialed the number. They were a very outgoing and happy drunk. It caught me off guard because they never mentioned who they were calling by name, so I was trying to figure out if it was someone I actually knew. In the end I did a reverse number lookup and found out that the number was issued to a bar in Bermuda. I didn't know anyone who was on a trip to Bermuda at the time.

-Jay

 

My mother's current home number is one digit off from her old neighbors about 5 miles down the road. She gets misdialed calls for them about 2 or 3 times a month, and gives them the right number. Once I was over at her house along with the old neighbors when someone misdialed the number and they were actually right there sitting on the couch! What are the odds of misdialing a number and still geting the person you wanted to talk to?

-Jay

 

My wife started getting text messages from an unknown person. Even when they were advised that they had the wrong number, it still continued ... until I texted them from my phone (consecutive number before my wife's). I simply told them that they were advised that they used the wrong number and any further messages would be considered harassment by telecommunications (and cited the PA code) and that it would be turned over to PA State Police at the local barracks for prosecution. Worked like a charm, hasn't gotten any since.
It helps that I know a majority of the troopers and worked with them in various functions and capacities.

 

Solutions:

Strange calls

a) Change your number

or....

b) Sign up for YouMail [free] and created a personalized greeting for the caller while prohibiting calls from that line to leave you a message. Tell them they have the wrong number and to stop calling. Politely.

Harrassing calls:

a) Change your phone number...

or

b) File a complaint with the local police department.

Unwanted text messages:

a) Block specific mobile numbers from texting you on the Vtext site...

or

b) Allow only texts that come in to your specific username@vtext.com on the Vtext site...

or

c) Get a new number