Need help now - please

I have been getting he phone calls on and off for a while now....I do exactly what the police said and ignore them. They called again this morning and my husband answered despite me screaming...don't answer, it's them!
He engaged them in conversation which is exactly what the police said not to do. Now I'm worried this cycle is going to start all over again. I am too frazzled to have this happening right now. I am angry at my husband for not listening, I'm even more angry at these people who won't leave me alone. I feel like a prisoner, scared of the door bell, scared of a phone call, scared to leave my house. My husband doesn't understand how afraid I am...he thinks it's a joke. Between flashbacks and nightmares and now real life intrusions - I don't feel safe and my sanity is on the brink of crumbling....oh god, why do these things always happen?

Hello, Can't Stop Crying. Where I live, the phone company will put a trace on harassing calls if I agree to prosecute.

I hope this menace leaves you alone.

Be safe.

Yikes scary! You should talk to your husband about this, and I agree with Byz that maybe working with the phone company may be a good way to go.

Until then wishing you the best of luck, and hoping the calls will slow down rather than speed up.

My husband promised he would call the phone company...I'll see if he does, he has a hard time following through sometimes with what he says. If he doesn't, I will summon the courage to take care of it myself. I was managing fine when they were just every once in a while...now I'm scared that since they got a reaction, they will start bombarding me again. I guess I should have called the phone company a couple weeks ago, but the calls slowed down dramatically so I hoped maybe these guys had given up....

Years ago before there were cell phones, I had someone calling constantly with the horrible abusive phone calls.....it was just after I had my daughter & I was still in college at the time, so I was doing the school thing & was home quite a bit......this guy wouldn't stop calling. I knew that the phone calls could be traced, but also knew that the phone company wouldn't do it unless there was a police requirement for it, but I figured that person was too stupid to know that if I didn't.

Soooooo.......I answered the phone one time & he started talking. I held the phone away from my ear & spoke loudly into the mouth piece saying "Ok, you can start tracing the call now" & layed the phone down & left it.........never got another call ever like that again.

Yes, the phone company can block specific phone numbers....but you said it comes in on many different numbers. Know at that time, my only solution was to get a different unlisted number & I just didn't want to do that.....I always had a hard enough time remembering my phone number anyway....did'nt want to learn a new one.

Anyway, lucky, the one statement into the phone worked. I have always had unlisted numbers & have my phone numbers blocked for telemarketing which has been wonderful.

Hope you can come up with something that works for you so that you don't have to get a new number & can have your peace back

Call your phone company. This happened to me, though not as bad as you are describing. The police told me there is a standard procedure whereby the police, in cooperation with the phone company, can do quite a lot. Where I live, the procedure is like this: the phone company tells you to press certain numbers after a harrasing call is received. This triggers the phone company's computers to track the call. The phone company will give that information NOT to YOU. They will give it to the police. The police will they get with you about what further should be done. Maybe I'm just lucky that we have that procedure in my city. Maybe you are not so lucky. In my case, I received a call threatening sexual assault. I was completely satisfied with the help I got from cops and phone company(land line.) Terrible that you should go through this.

it's also suggested u buy a whistle, have it near phone, answer the call and blow the whistle into the phone. it's piercing to the caller. suggested by the police. had phone co. help me too. they got the person calling. worked for me. no more calls once they prosecuted caller.

this story is hard to take seriously with all the emodicons

Ouch! I think it was helpful!

I called the phone company because my h wasn't getting around to it. I put a block on my phone so I can't receive any unknown, anonymous, or blocked calls. The phone rep. said it sounds like some of the calls are coming from disposable cells and that is why the number changes. There is not a lot they can do about tracing those. Because I have not been "threatened", just freaked out, no legal lines have technically been crossed. So I'll just continue to leave my ringer off and the volume of my answering machine on low. I guess it's the best I can do along with wishing they would get bored of this and leave me alone.

Can't I just thought of this - Here, usually if you get a call from 000-000-0000, that means the person is calling from voice over Ip - usually Skype or something like it - calling from a pc anyways. Is that helpful to you at all? That would also tie in to the Magic Jack call. If you have voice over Ip, I doubt it would be difficult to change your number?And I know for a fact that PC to phone often shows up like that on caller id.