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Originally Posted by Stompy
You think the police could tap the line (it's not even a line, it's Vonage, so through cable) and give me the info about who's calling?
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nope. Its completely a civil matter, nothing criminal about what they are doing, and police can't help you in a civil matter without order of the court. You can sue them for calling you, they can get in trouble with their regulatory authority if they arn't following fair credit act regulations, but police cant do anything.
This is especially true when you arnt even identifying yourself to them. In most states you need to identify who you are and that you are the person in control of the line to do anything in the way of telephonic harassment. and even moreso, telephonic harassment laws have to show lack of communicative purpose -- and a pattern of harassment once there is no communicative purpose between the caller and you.... If they are calling to collect a debt -- legitimate or not, they have a communicative purpose with you and by not answering who you are every time renews the communicative purpose for them to keep calling.
Also, even if the police *could* do something, because you are using a voice over IP service, law enforcement does not have mechanism to tap or trace VOIP service calls beyond where they extend into the pstn currently. The FCC has recently ruled that voip service providers have until may of 2007 to be CALEA compliant, and at that point, law enforcment will have the same privledges of getting court ordered tap and trace access to voip calls as they do today on the pstn, but for now there is no standard access to voip providers.