My daughter getting strange phone calls on her mobile phone

Phone numbers are always reused, so she needs to let the people calling know that the number is no longer for whoever it is they are looking for.

What are the phone callls??. What do people say when they ring?.

I would not answer if I do not know the number and if there was no reason, I would not have the phone on at night. I guess there could be someone randomly dialing, or even a computer. I wonder if someone could have had that number before her. That would be scary and weird if it happened a lot.

Can't she turn off her phone until she wakes up? That is certainly what I would do. We had people calling us for awhile when we first got our phone. I would leave a message on her phone that the person who had the phone doesn't any longer (as of a certain date) and I wouldn't answer it unless I knew by the ID who was calling me.

Maybe it is telemarketers. I get some of those too. I really hate that they got the law passed that gave them the right to harass us on our cell phones. Since we have to pay by the minute for these calls it can really add up the cost.

The number probably belonged to someone else at one time. That has happened to me with my landline. I keep getting phone calls for a person who use to have the number. I would say see about getting the number changed, but its just going to happen again. I would shut the phone off while I'm sleeping if I were her. That is what my hubby does with his cell phone.

wow I hope that she has gotten to the bottom of it. These calls would be very disturbing of course.

It is an offence if someone continues to call you without speaking, especially if it happens regularly. You should call your phone company and ask for their nuisance or malicious calls team. Also if its not an immediate threat call the police by dialing 101. If it is an immediate threat dial 999. AS it would appear that the phone number is shown, your daughter should put it into her phone address book, with the name 'spam' or something similar so that she knows not to answer it. Depending on the phone she may be able to give it it's own distinctive ring-tone. Even doing this she could still feel intimidated or frightened (I know I would), however the police or phone provider should be able to deal with these people. As someone else said, it could be a recycled number so may not even know that your daughter is not the person they think it is. (In fact that may be why they didn't keep their own number in the first place).

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I can see how you and her would both be concerned. With the new ease of technology allowing people to find and talk to others almost instantly it has made telemarketing almost something of a capitol crime in my book but the more scarey part is that we have so many sickos out there now that you must always be on guard. Since it is a fairly new phone it is more than likely telemarketers. I think companies pay for newly activated phone numbers just so they can try to sell their crap. I would still keep a watch on the caller ID for the same number and if it continues then it can be looked up to find out exactly who is calling. This new age info works both ways a lot.

More then likely someone else had that number before your daughter so they are trying to get a hold of the last owner of that number.. When I got my new phone last Christmas I had the same problem.. Just had to explain to the person that calls that the other person doesn't have that number.. To be on the safe side do not have your daughter say her name or anything like that just in case it is someone that is looking to grab peoples personal information.. I have a straight talk phone through walmart and if I do not pay my bill within a couple days there is a chance that I may lose my current number.. one of the down sides to my phone but it works for me.. Hopefully they all stop calling soon.. or when she is home for the night just have her turn her phone off or to vibrate while she is sleeping, just an idea.

It used to be that it would take quite a while before an old phone number was recycled. However, these days it really doesn't take all that long before a number is given to another person. Because of this, it is a regular occurance that you will get a lot of calls from people that had the old phone number and didn't realize that their friend or loved one had a new phone number. My husband has had his number for a couple years now and he still occasionally gets calls looking for the girl that had his phone number before he did.

Hahhahah...I remember my incident after reading your discussion. I started here this funny or strange communication. I know most of the girls fear but I was brave because married heehhe... One day a person calling me and saying I love you darling I say hellooooo brother I am married and my husband is the best husband in world so I have not interest for marry again hehehe...he replied ohhhhh madam sorry wrong no. you are sonam I say no I am Indian married talkative women he laughed and say sorry once again and cut it. But your daughter should ask with confidence and dont fear if she is not wrong why fear face the problem with braveness.

hi, maybe the stranger caller only had a wrong number dialed,because it also happen to me,sometimes i will answer it and sometimes not,and when i answered it they were just wrong number dialed because they were looking for unknown name to me.

That really isn't uncommon. I have had my cell phone number almost 6 years and still receive wrong numbers. Sometimes weird things happen too. Earlier today I was trying to call my cousin. I have called her several times while at home and in the San Diego area. We went to a different town today where she was holding her daughters birthday party. We were trying to get better directions and when I called her I got someone completely different. Come to find out the area code and first 4 number of her phone number were the same as someones number locally. I had to add a 1 before her number to reach her. In all the years I have had a cell phone I had never had that happen before.

This happens to me and my brother too, whenever we would answer, the people or person on the other line kept looking for someone else. i think that like us, your daughter's number was recycled by the phone company and that your daughter is not the first "owner" of the said number so those calls could be coming from the old person's contacts and not really your daughter's i think your daughter can just ignore them because they can always try to send her a message if the call was important and that she needs to answer it.

I just got a cell..about a month ago... and I have been getting collection calls for a April and a Alexanderia. If I dont' know the number, I don't answer it, let it go to voice mail and then check. If I don't want to block that number..there is an option on the phone to put in to block numbers. That works but for 800 numbers takes a few times before the number is denied..at least that is what is seemed. But if she just got the number, odds are the calls are for whom ever had the number before her. Either call the carrier and tell them that this is happeneing and ask for a different number and ask for one that has been on the list for a long time. They tend to just offer you the next number on the list, but hopefully if the number has not been in service for a while...those calling for the previous person have stopped calling the number. Or..block the numbers and see if that helps. I did start answering the calls..and telling them that person no longer has this number and to take me off their list and they did and everyone was rather decent about it too...so it happens alot so the carrier shouldn't have any trouble giving her a new one.

this happened to me once and it was because a guy had called a wrong number and when i answered he found out it was a womans voice so he kept calling back trying to make me talk to him. i had the phone company eventually shut him down with threats of prosicution

Oh my God, be careful. Maybe you guys should take her to school and don't allow her out for a long while by calling her friends there to hang out and all. Many phone calls can be a stalker cause I've had them and they do act like that. Not that a while will be enough time for them to stop, they can go for years...

May be the number your daughter using is previously used by another person. As the person don't use the SIM the mobile operator block the SIM. When your daughter takes the new connection the mobile company gives the previous person's phone number.