Phone harrasment

[e-man]

We constantly get these calls for harrassment by communication, usually someone leavbing b.s. calls on an answering machine. I got one alst night where the callers phone number, Identified by caller ID was disconnected. He was still using a disconnected phone number!! How in the heck can that happen and what can I do to 'make it stop' The house is up for sale so I think he got the name from the multi-list and got the home # from white pages. Home number was not listed anywhere. Any advice???

[hemicop]

It sounds like your caller is using one of those handsets phone linemen use that have a dialer hooked up to it & they use it at junction boxes to check phone lines. It's an easily acquired item & anyone that can get to phone lines,clip on the alligator clips to a couple of wires can use it. How do you stop it? You can't until you can prove who the caller is. He can just go from one line to the next & keep calling you if he wants.