An intercept message is a telephone recording informing the caller that the call cannot be completed, for any of a number of reasons ranging from local congestion, to disconnection of the destination phone, number dial errors or network trouble along the route. Before automation, calls to a disconnected or non-working number would be diverted to an intercept operator.NCT RECORDING DIARY #7
The operator would ask what number the subscriber was attempting to call, determine the reason for the intercept and relay the information to the calling party. The first automatic intercept systems used rotating magnetic drums containing multiple recorded phrases, with a computer or mechanical control system playing phrases in the proper sequence.
Initially, the caller was given the option to remain on the line for a live operator after the announcement was completed; this has now been removed. Jane Barbe and Pat Fleet are well known for being the voices behind many intercept messages originating in the United States. Many of these recordings end with the phrase "This is a recording" to let the callers know that they have not reached a live operator.
The precise wording of intercept messages is left to the discretion of each local telephone company, except that most such messages nowadays start with one of several special information tonesstandardized by Telcordia when it was still called Bellcore. In the s, for example, New York Telephone used the following:.
I'm sorry; the number you have reached is not in service, or temporarily disconnected. The number you have reached is not in service at this time. This is a recording. In rural areas, the name of the town from which the exchange service is furnished was often included in the message; this was especially true if the telephone company providing the service was not part of the Bell System.
By the s, a standardized generic message was adopted, and is in use in a vast majority of localities in America today.
It reads as follows:. We're sorry; you have reached a number that has been disconnected or is no longer in service. If you feel you have reached this recording in error, please check the number and try your call again. The option also exists to replace the generic message with a customized message, as applicable, such as in cases where a subscriber's telephone number has changed, usually due to relocation. An example of a Number Referral Service intercept message is:.
The number you have entered has been temporarily disconnected, changed, or is no longer in service. When a customer moves and cancels their telephone service, an intercept message is often used even if no new number has replaced the old one. The number you have reached, [old number]has been disconnected. No further information is available about [old number]. The number you have reached, [old number]has been changed to a non-published number.
In the past, the call would be forwarded to an intercept operator after usually two readings of the message; today, however, this procedure is not observed, and a fast busy signal follows the second reading of the message instead.Cool article. I've had that happen before. I've also had someone spoof call me. The spoof call, was someone being vaguely threatening but speaking in a thick accent with another person in the background laughing.
I'm sure it was someone I knew but still can't place the voice. I blocked it with my phone. When I block with my phone, I get the calls but my phone logs it as blocked and doesn't ring. I never call strange numbers back I google them.
The number was spoofed as a local government office. I guess the point of the "prank" was to get me to call some this office and tell off some poor unsuspecting sheriffs dispatcher. I just now got a call from a disconnected number that's why I'm here. Obviously this is a scam but I have to lay the blame on the phone company. I feel it should be illegal for anyone to do that and we all know the phone company can tell who is calling who because they use to put it on our bills The phone company should legally turn in whoever is doing it.
My number I got was Did the same as described in the article. The data is then sold to scammers. Don't answer is the solution. Art you've got me thinking Here it is years after your initial post and folks are still receiving these phantom calls. I would like to assume this would be illegal.Back in the day, savvy email server admins use to respond to email spammers with a nouser command.
That would then get bounced back to the email spammer and some spammers would drop that email off the list. It was basically detecting spam emails and faking that your real email account was not valid.
“We’re sorry. You have reached a number that is disconnected or that is no longer in service.”
I just received a call from someone I rather not talk to. It happens occasionally, be it telemarketers or annoying people. Here is the sound byte: Now, if you use a PBX like service, including something like Google Voiceyou can set this up to work easily. Here is a video of me dialing a Google Voice number I own but do not use. Now, it appears that Google will eventually allow you to port your main number to Google Voice. Plus, Google will soon open Google Voice to everyone to use.
When that happens, I assume there will be greater adoption of Google Voice. This may come in handy for me in the future or possibly yourself. Any invitations you might be able to direct my way or know how I can get one? You forgot the SIT tones. The easier way is set up the forward call to a weird number like Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Notify me of new posts by email.
Barry Schwartz April 22,11 years ago Am I on your annoying caller list? I hope not. There are no invites.Christine Cemelli was at home on March 16 when she got the text. Her husband, a chef at a fine-dining restaurant in New Jersey, had been laid off. Earlier that day, Governor Phil Murphy had signed an executive order restricting the operations of nonessential businesses in an attempt to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus.
Cemelli quickly launched into action. She had seen reports of layoffs around the county in response to the pandemic, and knew that with each hour that passed, it could become more difficult for her husband to claim unemployment benefits. She got about halfway through the application before an unknown server error kicked her out. None of her work had been saved, so she started again from the beginning. Ten hours later, at 11 pm, she was still trying desperately to submit a claim.
She woke up early the next morning to try again, but no dice. She encountered the same issues in the afternoon and evening. Cermelli considered trying to apply over the phone, but was dissuaded after family members said they had found that even more difficult.
The department was so overwhelmed with jobless claims that it was telling many callers to try again another day. Read all of our coronavirus coverage here. As the Covid pandemic sweeps across the nation, state and local officials have taken drastic measures to curb the spread of the disease.
Nearly one in two Americans are now under orders to shelter in placeforcing the closure of all nonessential businesses and many layoffs. Unemployment offices are struggling to keep up. The US Department of Labor said on Thursday that a seasonally adjusted 3, people filed for unemployment last week, the highest total since the department started keeping track. Unemployment claims rose more than tenfold from the prior week, and were more than four times higher than the previous record, in More Americans have lost their jobs in the last week than during the first year of the Great Recession.
The coming weeks are likely to be even worse, economists say. The figures released Thursday reflect claims from last week, when states like California, New Jersey, and New York issued shelter in place orders.
Surges in unemployment claims in these states won't be reflected in the most recent federal figures. And as people who lose paychecks curtail their spending, the economic effects will multiply.
She thinks staying up late helped, because there may have been fewer people trying to get through to the site. After Mayor Bill DeBlasio ordered the closure of nonessential businesses in New York City, she was laid off from her job as a waitress. Plumb tried repeatedly to file her claim, trudging through the steps of the application morning, noon, and night for days on end, to no avail.
But the number that they gave me is the general number that everybody is supposed to call to file for unemployment. And when you call that number, it just rings busy the whole time. As of Thursday, Plumb had not been able to file a claim. Many states are grappling with similar issues.My phone just rang a couple of minutes ago and the person hung up right before I answered.
When I called the number on my caller id back it said that the number was no longer in service. How is this possible?
This seems like the th time it's happened in the past few months. I guess they "forgot" to read that rule. I'm betting it's someone you really didn't need to hear from anyway, like a bill collector, or more likely someone trying to sell you something.
Love those worthless telemarketers. You may have missdialed the callback number. You may want to call your phone provider. It may be some hacker that has gotten to the exchange or some phone company employee testing a new customers phone and there test number is close to your number and they missdialed. Phone services are suffering these days. Their income has dropped due to all the competition. So their service suffers including security and quality of the system. It can also be from an internet based call such as "Skype".
When a person without paid number subscription calls you from one of those services, it shows a number but you cannot call that number back and reach them. It possibly could be a 'spoofed' number. The calling party does not want you to see his real number. Answer Save. Carl N Lv 7. Don't lose sleep over it. This Site Might Help You.Been getting phones calls twice a day for the last 3 days.
I tried calling back the number and they say the phone number is not in service. Does anybody know what's up?
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I'm getting almost daily calls from phone numbers I do not recognize but when I try to call the number showing on my caller ID, I get a message saying the number is no longer in service. I have also "picked up" a few of these calls and whoever is on the other end just hangs up. If it was a bill collector, I think they'd speak up when I answer the phone. I have got two call today, when I call the number a recording states that the number is not in service at this time.
Caller ID list the number as the name and then the number.
Is there some way I can find out what kind of scam this is or do I just answer this is hell would you like to place an order. Answer Save. How do you think about the answers? You can sign in to vote the answer. The same thing happens to me. Well, I got txts all the time, when I try to answer it says error. David14 Lv 7. Still have questions?
Get your answers by asking now.This Is a Recording dot Com. AUDIO tag unsupported. No comments: Email This BlogThis! Fix it! Until this is complete, you may notice things moving around. This site would not be possible without the many people who have contributed directly or indirectly. However long ago, I "audited" the site to separate the wheat from the chaff. As a result, not all the sounds were readded and similar sounds will not be added to This Is a Recording if submitted.
Below are some guidelines for submitting sounds. You can submit any sound you like. However, if they do not follow the guidelines they may not be added to the site. If you are unsure whether or not a recording follows the guidelines, you can submit it and I will review it.
No rando linemen recordings. I know, these are cool because they are rare and unique. However, they just don't fit into the site because I'm trying to use 'official' recordings. No CLEC recordings. I can't archive everything. No recordings with no corresponding telephone number. I need the number to verify or rerecord, if necessary. Please check if the recording already exists and please do not submit duplicates.
Caveats: These are the exceptions to the rules above. These would be added to the site. Recordings with a common voice i. Pat Fleet, "Anna" 2. Branded recordings i. Recordings that name the phone company. For example, if it is a rando lineman and during the recording he says Ameritech. Many of them with that snotty, nasally voice.
If you know what system that is, let me know. Duplicates of poor quality recordings. Anything that's really interesting, funny, unique. If it's something special, please allow me to review it.