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- From: greg@netcom.com (Greg Bullough)
- Subject: Re: How do I handle Phone harassment?
- Message-ID: <1992Oct13.025648.9519@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
- References: <cT2gsB5w165w@pcsnode.uucp> <1992Oct11.152712.4956@eng.umd.edu> <1992Oct12.211949.21237@informix.com>
- Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 02:56:48 GMT
- Lines: 33
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- In article <1992Oct12.211949.21237@informix.com> neilw@informix.com (Neil Williams) writes:
- >In article <1992Oct11.152712.4956@eng.umd.edu> georgec@eng.umd.edu (George B. Clark) writes:
- >>In article <cT2gsB5w165w@pcsnode.uucp> bazelmans@pcsnode.uucp (Rudy Bazelmans) writes:
- >>>
- >>>Simply report them to the phone company. They will handle it.
- >>
- >>The phone company in all probability will do nothing. Their department
- >>that deals with investigating abusive phone calls is so swamped with
- >>work that you will probably get nothing but a busy signal when
- >>you try to call them.
- >
- >My experience backs this up. My (now) wife had been receiving
- >harrassing phone calls for several months before she called the
- >phone company. They told her they couldn't do anything and that
- >she had to file a police report.
-
- My experience with Pacific Bell was exactly the contrary. I was getting
- a series of hang-up calls. I called Pac Bell, who asked me to file a
- police report, which is required to document the fact that the line
- is being monitored for good cause. This could be done both in San Jose
- and Santa Clara over the phone.
-
- Ten minutes later, that done, I called the person at Pac Bell back,
- and she set up the trap. I was then asked to log the events. Two
- events from the same number within two minutes of the time I logged
- would have raised a red flag. I found an answering machine with a
- time stamp to be helpful.
-
- Now, if I had refused to cooperate by filing a police report (as they
- indeed tell you to do) they couldn't have helped me. Was your (now)
- wife unwilling to do so?
-
- Greg
-