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Anyone know how to stop nuisance calls to one's home phone?

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  • #32
    Fear Uladh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 810 ✭✭✭Fear Uladh


    Estelindis wrote: »
    Haha. ;) Ironically, I am already qualified in aikido and ju-jitsu, and I have seen her attempt a martial art or two... which is another part of why I feel in no way physically threatened by her. Thanks for the smile, though. :)

    That forum should help you find a useful martial art then.


  • #33
    Estelindis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30 ✭Estelindis


    Doc Ruby wrote: »
    It would take them about an hour to call round to her and sort it out. Tell them you feel personally threatened and your family is at risk. If that doesn't work take it to the district court and the judge will hand down a temporary safety and protection order at the hearing, the Irish equivalent of a barring order. Then there will be a second hearing with her present at which it will almost certainly be made permanent.

    Keep records of every call and everything said. Hell, even record the calls and tell her you are doing so.
    I have kept records of the last few years of her texts and typed them up into a document; the guards didn't want to see it.

    I don't want to lie about what she's done. However, I think you're right in saying that I could go much further with this than I have, possibly even to (civil) court. Thanks.


  • #34
    Patrick2010
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,894 ✭✭✭Patrick2010


    Rabidlamb wrote: »
    Set up a redirect at night from your parents phone to your mobile.
    You've already blocked her from your mobile so your gravy.

    Alternatively, set up a redirect at night from your parents phone to an premium service line, €2.50 a minute call charges should do the trick.

    Do the trick as in landing the parents with a big bill? (You do know redirects are paid for by the person placing the redirect, not the caller)


  • #35
    Estelindis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30 ✭Estelindis


    Fear Uladh wrote: »
    That forum should help you find a useful martial art then.
    Ah yes, lest I forget that the martial arts forums on Boards.ie are dominated by MMA folks who insist on trashing all other arts even if we don't do the same to them...


  • #36
    Nothingbetter2d
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,037 ✭✭✭Nothingbetter2d


    sign her up for every possible mailing list you can find. have her home and email so flooded with spam she cant get out the door.


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  • #37
    Estelindis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30 ✭Estelindis


    Seachmall wrote: »
    Give them a call and ask them, I'm 99% sure it allows them to block numbers (as well as a bunch of other cool stuff).

    Thanks, I will do that. :)

    This seems like it will probably (er, overconfidence effect?) solve the problem. Thanks to all for their suggestions (even the amusing, non-practical and immoral ones!). Unless anyone has a genuine suggestion for the forum where I should have posted this, I'll leave it there. Thanks again!


  • #38
    Fear Uladh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 810 ✭✭✭Fear Uladh


    Estelindis wrote: »
    Ah yes, lest I forget that the martial arts forums on Boards.ie are dominated by MMA folks who insist on trashing all other arts even if we don't do the same to them...

    Are you asking me out?


  • #39
    Nothingbetter2d
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,037 ✭✭✭Nothingbetter2d


    Patrick2010 wrote: »
    Do the trick as in landing the parents with a big bill? (You do know redirects are paid for by the person placing the redirect, not the caller)

    upgrade the phone so it has an inbuilt voice mail recorder on it.... and set the phone to divert to mailbox at night..... once she has filled that mailbox up hand it to the gardaí. that will be all the proof needed to charge her for harassment and get a restraining order. Be sure to add that it is causing your 80 year old father undue stress which is affecting his health.


  • #40
    Estelindis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30 ✭Estelindis


    Fear Uladh wrote: »
    Are you asking me out?

    I already have a stalker, but I appreciate the thought! ;)


  • #41
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Many good suggestions in here OP, record calls, block number in handset or turn off ring signal at night.

    Many companies has help/contact forums in here but I don't think yours is there yet.

    Anyway hope you'll be able to use some of the better suggestions to sort this out.


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  • #42
    aujopimur
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,952 ✭✭✭aujopimur


    This sounds like my ex wife, the telephone witch.


  • #43
    Mossess
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 317 ✭✭Mossess


    Get a Whistle, actually I must get one myself. We keep getting phoned just after 9am by scammers. I contacted Eircom and was told “We can’t block numbers but we do advise people to be vigilant” Seriously.


  • #44
    lastlaugh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,382 ✭✭✭lastlaugh


    Give me her number, I'll give her a shout later on and explain how it's gonna be from now on.


  • #45
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    You can purchase an in-line phone recorder with a 1/8" or PC compatible output socket very cheap on Ebay. Record the culprit and threaten to report them to the Gardai for harassment.

    http://www.ebay.ie/itm/Telephone-Phone-Line-Calls-Voice-Sound-Recorder-PC-/280811856692?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item4161b0e334#ht_5478wt_1185


  • #46
    Ishmael
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,460 ✭✭✭Ishmael


    Would it be possible to get Imagine to change the phone number for you. Only give out the new number to people you know won't pass it on to the crazy biatch.


  • #47
    DarkJager
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,960 ✭✭✭DarkJager


    Get your own back. You have her number so use it. Write it in every toilet cubicle, every bus stop, every single place you can and make sure it clearly advertises all manner of deviant sex acts for the people who call it. You won't be getting called again any time soon.


  • #48
    Estelindis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30 ✭Estelindis


    Ishmael wrote: »
    Would it be possible to get Imagine to change the phone number for you. Only give out the new number to people you know won't pass it on to the crazy biatch.
    I see this as an absolute last resort and would prefer to exhaust all other possibilities first. Some of my father's friends are aid workers in very remote places and he isn't always able to reach them, plus at 80 years old having lived in many countries over the years and being one of ten children (with that family having spread out in many directions) there are literally thousands of people he'd have to contact to give them a new number. I understand the constructiveness of this suggestion, but for us it isn't very practical and we're really prefer anything else.

    Just explaining this a bit more, since a fair few people have posted this suggestion and I don't want people to have to post in vain.

    lastlaugh wrote: »
    Give me her number, I'll give her a shout later on and explain how it's gonna be from now on.
    Anything anyone says to her is only treated as fuel for later harrassment. I have not spoken to her or answered a text in years. I always hang up when I hear her voice. There is no reasoning with someone like this. As for threatening her, which I get the impression that you're implying...? Given that she has made up in her head that I've done all kinds of terrible things to her with no stimulus from me at all, how would she react to an actual threat? (Besides, that would then, ironically, make one guilty of the very threatening phone harrassment that she doesn't commit, even though what she does commit has had a very negative impact by itself.)

    Run_to_da_hills wrote: »
    You can purchase an in-line phone recorder with a 1/8" or PC compatible output socket very cheap on Ebay. Record the culprit and threaten to report them to the Gardai for harassment.

    http://www.ebay.ie/itm/Telephone-Phone-Line-Calls-Voice-Sound-Recorder-PC-/280811856692?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item4161b0e334#ht_5478wt_1185
    Thank you, that's a very reasonably priced item! Could be very handy. I already threatened to report her for harrassment years ago (and did, but as I said the guards wouldn't do anything), but as you can see that didn't solve the problem. However, it would be useful to have recorded material if this ever went to court. I did record mobile voicemail from her, but after a while it seems that gets deleted (though I did transcribe it).


  • #49
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    Estelindis wrote: »

    Thank you, that's a very reasonably priced item! Could be very handy. I already threatened to report her for harrassment years ago (and did, but as I said the guards wouldn't do anything), but as you can see that didn't solve the problem. However, it would be useful to have recorded material if this ever went to court. I did record mobile voicemail from her, but after a while it seems that gets deleted (though I did transcribe it).
    There are other more user friendly types available. One that plugs into a tape recorder or IPod would be the handiest. I am not sure about the legality of them in this country whether the usage would hold in court or not.


  • #50
    cade
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 378 ✭✭cade


    Damn that's kind of annoying that you can get numbers blocked on mobiles now. I went through a phase of about two years where a bunch of ex-"Friends" kept calling my mobile at odd times during the night. Now I was using the phone as my alarm for college so I'd to leave it on at night and didn't really scrape the money together for an alarm for a while, shocking I know considering they're only a tenner. Despite contacting Eircell via numerous methods about it I was always told there was no way to do it.

    So I'm glad things have taken a step in the right direction, always thought it was foolish that it wasn't possible.


  • #51
    Estelindis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30 ✭Estelindis


    cade wrote: »
    Damn that's kind of annoying that you can get numbers blocked on mobiles now. I went through a phase of about two years where a bunch of ex-"Friends" kept calling my mobile at odd times during the night. Now I was using the phone as my alarm for college so I'd to leave it on at night and didn't really scrape the money together for an alarm for a while, shocking I know considering they're only a tenner. Despite contacting Eircell via numerous methods about it I was always told there was no way to do it.

    So I'm glad things have taken a step in the right direction, always thought it was foolish that it wasn't possible.
    Well, actually, it was a bit of a struggle for me too. I was originally with Eircell->Vodafone, and they told me that they couldn't block the number without a Garda letter, and when I tried to get one the guards wouldn't give me one. Years later, I tried again with Meteor, and they told me the same thing. This time I prepared a letter describing the exact problem and typed out reams of pages of the woman's transcibed texts; I thought I'd have a better chance if the Gardaí already had a pre-made document to stamp, as opposed to getting them to write the letter, but the guard on duty told me they absolutely couldn't stamp something they hadn't written. However, she then went on to tell me that the phone companies were not telling the truth about needing Garda permission and they were basically fobbing customers off on the guards. She recorded my complaint and gave me a Pulse ID for it, saying that might help to give my case some force when I got back to Meteor. So, anyway, I call Meteor straight away and say I'd like to block a number from calling my phone and the rep immediately replies, before I can even marshall my arguments, without the faintest bit of objection: "Sure, what's the number?" in a friendly fashion. After all that, I really couldn't believe the obstacles were vanishing, but I didn't look a gift horse in the mouth!
    Run_to_da_hills wrote: »
    There are other more user friendly types available. One that plugs into a tape recorder or IPod would be the handiest. I am not sure about the legality of them in this country whether the usage would hold in court or not.
    Ah. Didn't think about that. Hmm. A friend of mine in regard to a wholly different issue has told me that if you tell the person on the other end that you're recording them then it's legal, but I'd have to check that out. (I mean, I really don't want to speak a word to this woman, even these few words, but it could be for the best in this instance.)


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  • #52
    the_syco
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,310 ✭✭✭✭the_syco


    Maybe instead of a service, get a device to block the calls? After a bit of Googling, I found this device which may be of use to you, or a device like it that you can block her number?

    As this is in AH, I'll have to also give the mandatory silly answer. Silly answer would be that the next time you goto the Police, ask for the community officer and/or their supervisor and tell them that a deranged women is ringing your phone at all times of the days threatening legal actions to your elderly parents causing them grief and distress. Also advise them that you'll remind them of this every time she rings, day or night.


  • #53
    Seachmall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,041 ✭✭✭Seachmall


    the_syco wrote: »
    Also advise them that you'll remind them of this every time she rings, day or night.

    Even easier; forward her calls to them.


  • #54
    Mossess
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 317 ✭✭Mossess


    Seachmall wrote: »
    Even easier; forward her calls to them.
    I totally agree, have a redirect from her number to the local Station. Although it probably wouldn't actually stop her.

    What about leaving a message on the number that she rings most along the lines of “Hello, This is Johnny, my new number is 086-XYZ - From now on this is the only number that you can reach me at. If my phone doesn’t ring then please please leave me a message and I promise to get back to you.”
    Get a Sim Card from O2 or whoever for ten euros, set up a voice mail, and forget about it. Hopefully she will change and start leaving messages at that number, and you need never concern yourself again.


  • #55
    cloptrop
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,923 ✭✭✭cloptrop


    What did you do to piss her off?
    There must be something.
    Did you call her a ginger spstic?


  • #56
    Nothingbetter2d
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,037 ✭✭✭Nothingbetter2d


    pm her number to everyone on boards so all the boardies can harass her 24/7 to see if she likes it.


  • #57
    chocksaway
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 608 ✭✭✭chocksaway


    Has saying the monologue from taken been said yet?


  • #58
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 6,321 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Estelindis wrote: »
    That's exactly the number I called, as mentioned in my post, which was answered with a "Hello, Eircom." And I'm not with Eircom, so they wouldn't help me. Thanks, though!

    COMREG are located at the back of the mall in Talbot street. irish life mall. You might try dropping in to them direct if you are getting no where on the phone.

    Tell them this is impacting your elderly fathers health by his losing sleep .

    other than that , ring Joe.

    heres the address.


    Commission for Communications Regulation,
    Block DEF,
    Abbey Court,
    Irish Life Centre,
    Lower Abbey Street,
    Dublin 1.


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