is your phone number similar to someone else's and do you get phone calls for them?

Question

i used to get people trying to send faxes to my number all the time, very annoying!

Answer 1

Yes - some while back my number was the same as that of a local coach (transport) firm except that the last two digits were reversed. I was forever getting calls for them and suggested that they ask the GPO (it WAS then!) to change their number (I'd had my number for years already), but they did nothing and the calls continued at all hours.

It was only when I started to take "bookings" for them - which of course I promptly ignored - and they started to lose business that they did something about it ! ! !

Answer 2

yes we are one number from a school and another number the other way from a child-care clinic.

hasn't happened recently though.



if it gets too annoying try answering "train station, good morning" !



for faxes i have a great remedy - first make sure your number is unlisted. secondly, don't answer calls that you aren't sure who they're from - let your answering machine do that.

if you want to answer you can always pick up in the middle and if it's not a mistake and someone you don't know - they'll either leave a message or call back later.

answering machines usually say the number where the fax trying to be sent was coming from. we had this automatic fax at some company added our number and was sending us faxes at 3 a.m. !

after a few nights of being rudely awakened i let the answering machine get it and the following morning i sent them a fax that requested immediate removal from their list and to stop harassing me or charges will be filed with the police, they stopped !

good luck !

Answer 3

I had an old fax number once also, we got way too many of those calls at every hour.We finally changed our number.

now we have a number of this guy that owed alot of people money.When we first got the number we were getting three or four calls a week for this guy. People he did work for,his relatives, and ladies.

Answer 4

I use to get phone call's all the time for this lady Shelia, I looked her up in the phone book and her number what nowhere near mine! When I first got this number, the name on ppl's caller id would show somebody totally different from this Shelia lady. I finally got fed up and had my number changed. Now no problems

Answer 5

Yes. Barnes and Noble Book Store.

Answer 6

No, but I used to have one similar to a loan company. Some people just don't understand no!

Answer 7

i used to get phone calls for the local funeral directors day and night i had to change my home number in the end, :)

Answer 8

yes its similar to a doctors surgery, weve had 2am calls with people screeching down the phone and all sorts!!

Answer 9

yep....my number is ***-**5-**** and the hospitals is ***-**4-**** all the asterisks are the same digits so I'm forever getting phone calls for the hospital(since it's only one digit off, and they are all for the same town)....all hours of the day and night.

Answer 10

yes, me and the landlord's were off by one number, i had to change my phone number cause i kept getting calls for him, it was very frustrating!

Answer 11

not for a while now

once a bank kept phoning me for somebody, he hadnt paid his debt... very very anoying.

Answer 12

Thankfully no

Answer 13

yup

but rarely

Answer 14

no, thank goodness.

Answer 15

no why should it ?