I used to turn the ringer completely off of my phone, and only used it when *I* wanted to make a call. LOL

And caller groups means you can make some calls ring and anything else silent.

I called my phone company and they said they can't do anything about it and have no way of finding out a blocked number.

I don't believe that for a second. I think the person you were on the phone with was just trying to get rid of you. I would call back and ask to speak to a manager. Keep climbing until you get to someone who has a clue. I'd threaten legal action if necessary to get their attention.

Ok...I'm officially going nuts.

For the past few days, this person/auto-dialer/whatever calls between 10-16 times a day! Sometimes its spaced out to once an hour or so, and other times I get 3 or 4 calls back to back...I hit the ignore button and they call right back.

I called my phone company and they said they can't do anything about it and have no way of finding out a blocked number.
They said the only thing I can do is have my number changed. WTF. I'm seriously in full-preggo-hormone-irratated-wanna slap the heck outta somebody mode!

I can't file charges because there is no way to find out who is calling.

If you ever want to bug the crap out of somebody, have your number blocked and call someone 15 times a day for a week.

&%$#@!@#$%^&*!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I don't believe that for a second. I think the person you were on the phone with was just trying to get rid of you. I would call back and ask to speak to a manager. Keep climbing until you get to someone who has a clue. I'd threaten legal action if necessary to get their attention.

We really don't. If your telco isn't sent the originating ANI or is sent only "Blocked" or "Restricted" there's really no way for them to track down the originating number.

Threatening legal action will get you pretty much nowhere with the majority of Telcos.

Call your phone company and request that they block restricted caller ID calls.

I also told her that phone records are subpeonaed all the time so there was obviously a way for them to find out who was calling, but she said they couldn't.

They "can't do that" either. All they can do is offer to change my number...which is more hassle than getting 15 phone calls a day from a blocked number.

Yes. Phone records *are* subpoenaed all the time. But if the Originating CLID/ANI is blocked or restricted, there really is no way to determine where the call is coming from. Heck, I could set up a soft phone here at my desk and feed it the ANI 999-999-9999 and make calls to you all night long if I wanted to. and there really wouldn't be a damn thing the telco could do about it. (Not that I'd do such a thing, because it would be wrong, but still.)

In essence the call records wound show:
9999999999 --> 55ladykate 08:39:45 9/10/10

Now *that* I call bullshit on. It should be a simple process to block calls that do not present a caller ID to a terminating number.

If it *really* gets to be a problem, I suggest into porting your number to a vonage/voip type system. But that's just me

She said they can only block calls by specific numbers and *I* do not know the number, then *I* cannot have it blocked and *they* cannot find out the number.

Your logic is not helping, Arafys. I'm already aware that nobody can do **** about this, I don't need they "why they can't do this" defined for me, what I really need is either a solution to the problem or someone to yell at and cry on until I'm not frustrated anymore.

Oh I don't yell at telco people. I don't yell at any customer service people....I spent over a decade working customer service and spent my time doing technical support by phone....I'm obviously angry but not rude or yelling...always polite.

*sigh* Thanks, bro.