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If you call the same number 10 times in a row, or let it ring for minutes, you can be reasonably sure nobody is home. Most people would at least get pissed and
by TheCraiggers 12y ago
If you call the same number 10 times in a row, or let it ring for minutes, you can be reasonably sure nobody is home. Most people would at least get pissed and pick the phone up, if only to slam it back down.
- dragonwriter 12y ago> If you call the same number 10 times in a row, or let it ring for minutes, you can be reasonably sure nobody is home. If it has an automatic answering system, you can't "let it ring for minutes", and if it has the ringer turned off (and there are lots of people who, with an answering, do this by default) then it won't even ring at all (though you'll think it is ringing.)
- Houshalter 12y agoWell now your phone is linked to the robbery. One call might be explainable but 10 is pretty suspicious, especially if you do it at multiple crimes.
- billmalarky 12y agoI'm sure it's not too hard to anonymously get a phone number. Google voice perhaps?
- john_b 12y agoThat would only be anonymous to the recipient. Google still has a map from your actual account and phone number to your Google voice number.
- praxulus 12y agoPayphones.
- xanderstrike 12y agoFar too low-tech for HN.
- MichaelGG 12y agoIt's easy. Tor + anonymous BTC purchase of VoIP. Getting BTC is the harder problem.
- Zaephyr 12y agoToo late, the telemarketers already (effectively) doing this. VoIP# -> unpublished home line (+ Mobile) Home line 'protected' from autodialers by old fax machine, 4 rings then silence. Only political calls seem undeterred.