PLAY THE GAME OR BECOME THE GAME

[PART 8]

The local F.B.I agent Brad Thompson called me on the phone one afternoon in November of 2007 and he told me that we didn't need a taxi service here anymore and if I wanted to get my phones to work right I was going to have to go to the Texas Panhandle to get phone service.

Five minutes later I was being pulled over for improper backing by three police officers as I pulled into my mothers house just off of Third Street. She came out to see what was going on and the officers told her that they had concerns about my mental welfare.They also told her that I was going back to Red Rock in Clinton.

I told them what the local F.B.I. agent just told me on the phone and the one in charge, Officer Wilhite, said that I couldn't prove that the agent said that. At this time I held up my phone and asked them if they would like to hear what was said because I had recorded the whole conversation.

They looked shocked by this and the one in charge put up his handcuffs. He went back to his car to call his supervisor and it took a few minutes. When he came back he told me that I was free to go and it's a miracle that I didn't get taken away anyway.

I kept calling Tracfone and Virgin Mobile all through the month of November and December to try to get all the phone calls to come to one phone. It was always the same story and I made sure I shot lots of video of the many conversations I had with people at these companies.

Toward the end of December I decided to port the 580-821-2222 number over to an At&t land line and I was desperate to shake some of my unbelievable phone problems. On December 27th, 2007 the land line was put in service, but to my shock the land line would only receive calls from other land lines and about half the cellular carriers.

I began calling the At&t Business Office and their executive office to see if they could open an investigation or at least get it fixed. A lady by the name of Yalonda at their executive office called me several times and she seemed stumped by this. She also seemed troubled by what I had to say and I told her some of the things that had went on in 2007.

Everyone I talked to at At&t told me that it shouldn't be possible for part of the phone calls to go to another phone and several of them said they don't think it has ever happened before. Weeks went by with no change and the land line was also being tampered with just like my other phones had been for over a year. I really didn't think these people would mess with the hard line and it should have been more secure.

The At&;t Business Office finally sent out a technician at the end of January 2008 and there's no telling how many calls I had placed to them. I continued to call Tracfone also and I started contacting as many people as I could at their corporate office in Florida. Something like this is so frustrating and you can probably imagine how angry I was getting after dealing with it for almost 5 months plus 13 months of other phone issues.

The land line technician was a local guy that lives a few miles South of Elk City and his last name is Newbury. I know where he lives because I followed him one day. This was several weeks after he had been at my house and I wanted to talk to him. I had saw him in his company vehicle at a convenience store and it was too late to wave him down so I followed him. Of course I was suspicious that someone with At&t was assisting in the phone tampering, but he might not have had anything to do with it.

Anyway the phone technician came to my house and I invited him in. I showed him how part of my business phone calls were still going to a cell phone and I called my number 580-821-2222 from a prepaid cell phone that was with a company by the name of Net 10 [I kept several different kinds of phones with different service because I was having so much trouble with my calls, even out going calls where difficult to make]. The call went to the Tracfone 580-821-2222 and then I used my son Dylan's phone to call the number and the call went to the land line 580-821-2222.

I began telling him about some of the things that had happened and he said he needed to go out to the alley to check out the problem. He went out to the green circuit box that's in my alley and a few minutes later he came back. He dialed some numbers on my land line and I'm not sure exactly what he did. He then told me that he couldn't find anything wrong with my land line and he said he was going to turn in a trouble ticket so that the business office could look into it.

I asked him if there was anything I could do to hurry things along and he said someone would be contacting me in a few days. I told him that I had been trying to get Tracfone to disconnect the phone since October and I was constantly leaving messages at their corporate office. Right before the technician left I asked him what he would do if he had a business and his business phones were being messed with like this. He said that he might try staying quiet about it for a while and maybe they'll quit doing it.

Well several more weeks went by and the problem was still the same. If you've watched the videos that I have on youtube [the link to my youtube page is on the right side of this blog] then you know that I've had so many different kinds of phone problems. I was constantly getting knocked off the line, calls wouldn't connect, it would give an error message such as an out of service message when I called certain working numbers, there was lots of noise on all the phones, voice mails were disappearing if I could even get voice mail at all. etc.

Something was wrong with the call forwarding on the land line and a guy at the At&t business office said that it seemed as if I had call forwarding with a memory [meaning someone was messing with it]. I had to forward the land line calls over to my 580-225-TAXI cell phone so I could get the calls while I was on the road and it was very rare for a day to go by without something going wrong with one of my phones

I decided that I'd had enough of the land line problems and on February 10th, 2008 I called T-Mobile. It's so confusing to try to explain everything that happened while I was trying to port from one company to the next and it's impossible to describe all the details since there's so many. I called T-Mobile and told a representative that I was porting in a phone number from Tracfone. I decided not to mention the land line yet and I was hoping they might be able to get Tracfone to release the phone.

 Of course something went wrong and they aborted the port saying that the number was coming back as a land line. I had to explain all this stuff to about a dozen different people at T-Mobile, but I was determined to get all the calls to come to one 580-821-2222. I gave them all the information for the land line and the Tracfone such as pass words, full name on the account, billing address, etc. I have to give the people at T-Mobile credit and they seem to have pretty good customer service.

I was on the phone with one of the T-Mobile people and he said he as going to call someone in the porting department at Tracfone to see if he could get this fixed. It was a conference call and we both spoke with someone in the porting department at Tracfone. It was a man and he said he was disconnecting my Tracfone right then. I told the guy with T-Mobile that they've said that for months and it's always just the same run around.

The next day it still wasn't done yet so someone at T-Mobile sent an email to Dobson Cellular [which is now ATnT here in Elk City] asking for their help in resolving this matter. I had been to Dobson Cellular a lot of times about these issues and I decided to call them again. I spoke to one of the people there and she told me that she was going to send an email to Joey Bales with the Drug Task Force to see if he knew what might be causing this problem.

On February 13th, 2008 while I was video taping, I noticed that my land line number had changed over to 580-225-5617 and it was no longer 580-821-2222 [video #15]. I couldn't understand why I had a new number and I made sure I used the land line to make a call so that the number would show up on a cell phone [I wanted to make sure I captured it on video]. I also called the number 580-225-5617 so I could show that it was ringing on the land line.

This number was only on my land line for about an hour then it disconnected and I called ATnT to see why I had been given a new number. I called the business office at phone number 800-499-7928 and spoke to a representative by the name of Tamika in North Carolina [REP. I.D. number TP0124]. I told her what had happened and I gave her the number 580-225-5617. She looked the number up in their system and she said it was being billed to the Department of Transportation in Oklahoma City.

I asked her to please double check that and I also told her that I needed her to write a note on my account that said that. She said there was no mistake about it and I couldn't help but think that this was quite a coincidence since I'm in the transportation business. I've heard things about DOT in Oklahoma before, but I couldn't understand why they would use a number that's billed to them.

I finally got all the phone calls to go to one phone on February 15th and it was a T-Mobile 580-821-2222. I continued to call the phone number 580-225-5617 because I was curious. For several months after this it was still connected somewhere and it would still ring. It was scary how it had an answering machine attached to it for several days after this that sounded exactly like the one on my land line and I can't believe it was so weird.

Almost six months went by while I had two phones with the same phone number and it's sickening that I couldn't get anything done about it such as a lawsuit or at least an investigation. We didn't have any money and things were in such bad shape. The T-Mobile phone was also jacked with really bad and it didn't look like these people were ever going to leave my phones alone.

I decided to put the number back on the land line in March 2008 because the T-Mobile phone had such a poor signal and it was hard to use since it was so tampered with. I thought it would be harder for them to mess with the hard line by using jamming equipment etc. and I was also hoping to get some solid evidence just in case I could file a lawsuit.

I didn't seem to have as much trouble with the land line after I ported back, but it was still being tampered with. I couldn't bill a phone call to the land line because the operator said that it was showing up as a mobile phone and it became clear that the abuse wasn't going to stop. Amazing how after I ported the number out of T-Mobile back to the land line that the T-Mobile phone was still able to make calls for several months and it showed up as 580-821-2222 when I called another phone. I've been told the phones were being cloned and there's just so many unanswered questions.

I tried to contact Mark Klein and he's an AT&T whistle blower that testified about all the crimes the feds were committing in one of the facilities that he worked at in California. He sent me an email after I contacted his lawyer about my situation and he suggested I try Google Voice. Mark is also a very brave guy for standing up to these people and here is what he had to say in an email he sent a while back.

Randy,

I read your previous message that you sent to my lawyer, and also saw your YouTube. I have no explanation, and it would be impossible for me to troubleshoot it from afar. (Anyway, I'm not a cell phone technician, I worked on computers.) As a workaround, why don't you try Google Voice, which is free (however you have to sign up and get an "invitation", I'm not a user at present so I can't issue an invitation). Assuming you already have a land line and/or cell phone (which you do), the service will automatically transfer calls from one phone to another.

Good Luck,

Mark Klein

Google Voice is a really cool service, but it's not good enough to fight off the powerful equipment that these guys have. The service allows you to pick your own phone numbers by spelling out words you want to appear in the phone numbers. I got pretty lucky to get the two numbers I have and the first one is a Broncs, New York number that is attached to my 580-821-2222 phone. The number is DIP-TAXI-GUY or 347-TAXI-GUY and it comes back to a company called Omega Communications in New York. 

The second number is out of Pennsylvania and it is attached to my 580-225-TAXI phone. That number is RAG-VAN-TAXI or 724-VAN-TAXI and it comes back to a company called Level Three Communications in Colorado. Both numbers are extremely tampered with and the criminals accomplish this by forwarding the Google numbers to other numbers. Both numbers have Montana numbers attached to them and I found this out by sending a text message to the numbers. 

When the text message went through it had the 406 numbers on the text messages. At the moment I'm not sure what number is attached to the Pennsylvania number because it has been changed. The New York number is forwarded to a Montana phone number [406-285-2023] and if you call that number it connects to the 580-821-2222 just like you were calling the 347-TAXI-GUY number.  

Another thing I was going to say about Google Voice is it prints out your voice messages on an email where you can just read the voice messages that someone leaves if you like. I really like the Google 411 feature and it allows you to get a phone number to a business and then automatically connects you to that number and everything is free of charge with this service. Also if you have two or three business phones you can make one ring no matter which number is called.
 
One thing I have noticed that these guys can do is take the first number off of the front of the Google number and place it on the back so they can gain full control of it. I noticed this when I was calling a phone company by the name of Century Link [formerly Embark 800-877-7077] and it always asks you if your calling about phone number [your number]. When I first got the Google number I called this company through the 347-TAXI-GUY number. The computer voice from this company asked me if I was calling about phone number 478-294-4893 and this happened time after time.



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