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What are these random phone calls?

My house receives random phone calls from an unknown number at very random times. It happens quite often, and when I answer, it's just a *beep* *beep* type thing. Vancouver, BC area, Telus provides my phone service. Right now I received such a call and it's 12:35 at night and people in my house are sleeping. Can I end these calls somehow? How?

The beeping is about the sound of a voice mail beep, and it's on about a .5-1 second interval.

Update:

Unknown number = we have no caller ID

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  • joe r
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago
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    sounds like a fax machine trying to poll your line for a fax connection....

    you can stop anonymous calls by activating anonymous call rejection on your line by dialing *77 and blocking private callers...

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    5 years ago

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    What are these random phone calls?

    My house receives random phone calls from an unknown number at very random times. It happens quite often, and when I answer, it's just a *beep* *beep* type thing. Vancouver, BC area, Telus provides my phone service. Right now I received such a call and it's 12:35 at night and people in my...

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Turn off your ringers at night and get some sleep.

    It could just be telemarketers, however when I worked with the phone co. we had that trouble alot. It turned out to be test equiptment in the central office and a machine would check all the lines for trouble at night. Sometimes it would make the phone ring and cause a trouble report.

    I would have Telus check your line

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  • 1 decade ago

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