Re: How could a landline be re-routed?

["BruceR" <razrbruce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Relax. The old Lucent answering machine is designed to turn on after 10
rings in case you left it off. It also has the listen in feature. Read
the manual on that one.  As for the line, it sounds like you live fairly
close to your office. Contrary to popular belief, there is not a single
pair of wires that runs from your home to the central office. Your line
could have been assigned a pair that was not dead at the other end. A
call to the telco should get things sorted out.

 seeker wrote:
> this happened to me.. i kept getting calls from one phone number
> always at times i was not home. i kept trying it for months until one
> day i tried it from work. then someone answered it and i heard sounds
> from the building i was working in! i ran down to where it was and saw
> an abandoned phone off the hook. someone said an off-premise extension
> might have been used. It seems as if someone was routing calls through
> a third party or being intercepted at my house, as many friends,
> including those with ties to law enforcement, commented on my phone
> being tapped.
>
> another time i had a lucent digital answering machine that was powered
> OFF and the phone rang several times. The machine turned ON and an
> intercom feature in the unit was activated.
>
> i have never had criminal issues so i feel my phone line was violated
> and wonder what may have happened.