http://ask.metafilter.com/tags/autodialling Questions tagged with 'autodialling' at Ask MetaFilter. Thu, 01 May 2008 20:32:52 -0800 Thu, 01 May 2008 20:32:52 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://ask.metafilter.com/90340/Whats%2Dhe%2Ddialling%2Din%2Dthere For the last month or two I've been hearing noises from the flat above me. Specifically, I hear a phone number being dialled (as if by a modem), followed by the standard telephone voice saying that the number dialled has not been recognised. This voice repeats itself for a while, before the whole process starts again. This goes on for hours at a time. What's going on? I wouldn't find this odd if it was just occasionally. I don't always hear it, depending on what I'm doing and whereabouts in my flat I am, but it seems to happen at all times of day and night.<br> <br> I can't think of what it could be. If he were using dial-up internet, then I'd expect the occasional sounds of dialling, but not the unrecognised numbers or the fact that it repeats for hours on end. I did wonder if he was running some kind of auto-dialling phone scam, but it seems to happen too much in the early hours of the night for that to be the case.<br> <br> This is in the UK. I don't know the guy (or anyone else in the building) so I can't just ask. But at this point I'm curious as to what's going on and any ideas would be welcome. tag:ask.metafilter.com,2008:site.90340 Thu, 01 May 2008 20:32:52 -0800 autodialling neighbours phone telephone xchmp