Telemarketers, I think. There’s some spam machine out in NV or somewhere shilling for a casino. :dubious: As it is, I probably have five million voice mails consisting of the number. Given that I don’t use voicemail anyway… 
Unfortunately, I can’t block it since I’m on a mobile.
I got: 100600977114020843, fast dialing, then busy signal.
Weird, but I just had to try it too.
Same here. Someone here needs to record those DTMF tones and tell us what number is being dialed that gets the busy signal.
It’s clearly Bill and Ted’s time-travelling phone booth! :eek:
I’ve been poking around with the public information of your LSO (Local Service Office), and I have drawn a blank. My hunch was that your number had been erroneously designated for test calls. But since the string “7-4-8-4-3-9” isn’t found in there, I’m stuck.
Sorry, I couldn’t help.
16987114020843
16997114020843
here
I called a bunch of times.
Is there a way to record the tones it dials so that I can figure out the number it is calling? Or does anyone here have the capability?
It seems to have like 20 digits, as far as I can tell.
I keep calling and getting different numbers. However, I think that because the first 4 numbers are said differently than the others,
One thousand six hundred ninety-three, seven, one, one …
that it is actually then trying to call the number after the 16xx number, which is a regular US phone number. However, I’m using Skype and don’t have a headset set up, so I don’t want to try calling that number myself. But yeah, it sounds like a randomized thing, at some point it will hit the correct number, then dial through correctly and you’ll win a million dollars or be told to tell 10 other people the number to gain your heart’s desires, and if you don’t you’ll die tomorrow (or some other such campy movie plot).
This thread is so hijacked.
Elmwood, have you gotten a call since your last post?
Also… why would you be given a six digit number? What number system gives information parsed into groups of six? I don’t think it’s a phone number… Why would it give only six digits of a phone number?
I’m stumped… the answer lies in the DTMF tones.
I got the same number, but ninety one. Tried it twice and it’s the same.
I’m in Connecticut (area code 203) using a Cingular cellular phone. What about you guys? What local/l-d service are you on?
So it seems to be a four-digit number: 16xx for all of us, and varies in the last two digits. It might vary in others as well. My guess is it depends on local/l-d provider and/or area code/exchange. Has anyone tried calling after a long delay but from the exact same phone?
Then it’s 711-402-0843. 711 is “Telecommunications Relay Services”. Weird. Eerie.
Oh, and dialing directly get the recorded, “your call cannot be completed as dialed, please check…” The DTMF isn’t dialing that. Besides, as someone else pointed out there’s too many tones for it to be that.
This is a pure guess but maybe it’s some sort of remote equipment autodialing to provide telemetry of some kind (in the form of a number), but it’s been mistakenly programmed with your number.
This may be similar to what I suggested to the OP. You may be dialing some kind of remote equipment which provides telemetry of some kind by spoken numbers.
It’s obvious. Our automated systems have become so complex that they are starting to communicate among themselves in code. Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Speaking of weird phone calls, last week I began receiving a series of long distance calls throughout the night. The first one came around 2:30 AM, the second one around 4 AM and the third around 5:50 AM. The caller ID identified it as “Los Angeles, CA” along with a 323 area code number, except for one time when it said “Millbrae, CA” and had a 650 area code. Obviously these woke me up.
The first time I didn’t answer it because I don’t know anyone in LA (I live in the Philly suburbs). On a couple of the later calls (this went on for two nights) I picked it up and got nothing but dead air. One time it left me a voice mail which said something similar to “all of our operators are busy right now, please remain on the line until an operator answers”. I never heard this when I answered, only the one time on the voice mail.
I tried googling the phone numbers with no luck. I also tried a reverse lookup. The service claimed it had found the number but wanted a payment to divulge the owner.
I finally figured out that my phone service includes a free blocking service so I was able to block both numbers and I haven’t been bothered since.
I was sorely tempted to call those numbers during the day and tell them off for repeatedly waking me up like that. I didn’t but I probably should have. By the second night I couldn’t really sleep well after the first call because I was laying there waiting for it to ring again. I couldn’t disconnect the phone because my elderly mother has been having some health problems and I need to be reachable (and of course the first couple of times it rang I woke up sure that something was wrong.)
I’m guessing that it was some kind of automated telemarketing dialer that was malfunctioning or had been mis-programmed, maybe someone confused AM and PM when they programmed it. If that was the case then they were probably waking thousands of people across the country and, for all I know, may still be doing so.
Mike wants to talk to you, cobber.
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Heinlein. Mike is Mycroft Holmes, an intelligence created when a computer system on the Moon became extremely complex. He could communicate using the phones.
Haven’t gotten a six-digit call in the past few days. I’m on the national no-call list, and don’t have any outstanding debts, but a few days ago I got a call from a number, caller ID unavailable, with a recording that just repeated “STAY ON THE LINE” a few times. After that, nothing.
My phone has also been “chirping” a lot lately, too, with feeble quarter-rings every couple of days. I’ve got old made-in-the-USA Western Electric phones in my house, and it really is a ring.
I, for one, welcome our telephonic overlords!
I’d call your local Bell. It really sounds like the switch is doing some really strange things. (You are served by an 1AESS, which I have absolutely no experience with.)
There’s an old column about something like this. It’s from 1988 so I’m not sure how relevant it is. What causes “ghost rings” on the telephone?