Ring cadence? Huh?

[LarryInMichigan]

Don't forget a special number for collection agencies, telemarketers, and scammers

[bakerbrett741]

There is a "spoofing" service that can change the pitch of the callers voice- mabe there is one that can change ring pattern.
http://www.spooftel.com/freecall/

[bakerbrett741]

With call centers having their calls made through a computer modem they might have some program that has the phone co. computers change the ring pattern- or mabe their computer dial program on their computers has a "glitch" and changes ring pattern. I don't know- Im no expert on telecommunications- just a wild guess.

[GusHerb]

We have a second number on one of our home phone lines, the distinctive ring is just a normal ring chopped into two shorter rings..The fax machine is programmed to only answer on the distinctive ring.
I know when calling the house the first ring will be just a quick ring, something to do with the ring timing or something. the ring on the callers end is never in sync with the phone ringing in the house either.

[old_stuff_hound]

Just got a call at our short-short ring cadence number. I was busy so didn't answer it, but when I got a chance I checked the caller ID. It said "Phone Scam". Nothing like truth in advertising, hmm? ;-)

[GusHerb]

Just got a call at our short-short ring cadence number. I was busy so didn't answer it, but when I got a chance I checked the caller ID. It said "Phone Scam". Nothing like truth in advertising, hmm? ;-)

That's actually quite hilarious. I've got a cordless phone system that has call blocking, so any nuisance number I can just save it to the phone and it picks up on first ring then hangs up on em. Our double ring number only rings when a fax is coming in (yeah people still use fax these days)

[Owain]

Turns out she didn't answer it -- she checked the caller id and it was an 800 number (I guess there are some advantages to newer phones ;-). Just googled it and it's a collection agency. I hope this isn't starting again -- we've already had to have our number changed once (several years ago) because the previous owner of that number was apparently a credit card "artist". We were getting several collection calls a day, so we finally abandoned that number and got a new one. The past week or so it seems like it's been starting up with the current number. Bummer.

Don't you have an equivalent to Truecall in the US?

[twocvbloke]

I'm not sure I could trust a company who can't spell "silent" properly on their front page....

[old_stuff_hound]

I'm not sure I could trust a company who can't spell "silent" properly on their front page....

Those slient calls are the worst! ;-)

I've discovered that we do have a limited call-blocking ability (4 numbers, I think?) as part of our phone service. If Mr. Phone Scam calls again, he's getting blocked!