what should I do about nuisance phone calls

I'd suggest calling the plod too.

Tim-

like has been said- It MUSt be something to do wuth your court case.. ?? yo think? too coincidental ?

Originally Posted by timwilky

Hmm, now if one was to combine a while loop containing a call to minicom with a dial number and a random sleep command, would I be on the right track to meet your requirement?

you are aware no doubt that such a script if misused would be a right royal pain in the bum should the wrong number be inadvertently entered.

Minicom would be a pain in the ****, you would have to dig out your old modem, find a phoneline, etc... I'm sure you can write some Asterix "test scripts" to achieve the same thing more easily...

[Biker Biggles]

Straight to plod with it.Give them the number and the list of times.I believe if you report it as a formal complaint they will have to investigate,and it would be easy for them to show any link to your current court case.

Originally Posted by Jayneflakes

If you are suffering harassment, take it to your provider and see what they say. They may take it seriously. However I suffered with it for a while and all they said to me was that for a fee they could change my number. Hardly helpful. Maybe finding out who is doing it and sending them a lunchbox full of turds would help...

If you report it to the police before you go to your phone provider then they should change your number for free.

I had to do this a couple of years back, the police were brilliant, very helpful and - although it was my mobile that was getting the calls and not my landline so slightly different to you - Vodafone were brilliant and immediately changed my number after I gave them the incident number

Gave me chance to clear out numbers in my phone book as well

Like has been said though Tim, no matter how tempting it is, don't play them at their own game, report it, speak to your phone provider and go from there

Ok so this is a bit late... but I only just seen it.

My nan had this a few years back, which with her being old and living on her own she was scared.

The called did the same and forgot to withhold his number, so I took the number and gave him a call. I made up a name of a policeman, PC.... and just explained that we have recieved a complaint about nuisance calls and that if he wanted to take this further then we can do that, otherwise we suggest you stop making these calls.

Worked very well and she didnt recieve another call. Whatever you do, dont ring the kid up and be yourself, there is no scare factor and he'll keep doing it.

[punyXpress]

Get one of those ultra-loud dog whistles & DEAFEN the BARSTEWARD!

[ethariel]

Originally Posted by punyXpress

Get one of those ultra-loud dog whistles & DEAFEN the BARSTEWARD!

Definatley works with POTS and ISDN, dunno bout VOIP phones tho