On Victims testify about effects of terrifying phone calls

Posted on September 2 at 9:56 a.m. ( Suggest removal )

My 21-year old daughter moved into her own apartment near her office. Of course it makes a lot of sense, except that it scares her dad half to death I am not the first father to worry about his young daughter striking out on her own and living by herself in an apartment. But this was my daughter, and I was going to worry as much as I wanted. But beyond that, I wanted to make sure that she was as safe as I could possibly make her.
After a few weeks went by, I asked my daughter, Melinda, how things were going and if she had encountered any problems or had any safety concerns.
“I have been getting some screwy phone calls,” she said. “I think they are just guys who want to have some fun. But they are a bit scary. You just never know, because I am alone and maybe somebody would like to verify that so that they would know there is no one here to help me in case of a threat.”
I knew that there would be moments like this, so I had to maintain my composure and assure her that there was something we could do to help her with this problem. What this something was I had no clue.
There is a man in my office who I go to for all questions related to what kind of help is out there for any kind of problem I can raise. He lives on the computer and he is an encyclopedia of computer help knowledge. So I went to him with my problem. Of course he had an answer.
“What your daughter needs to do is to make sure these callers know there are a lot of different people living at her place,” he said. “No one would dare attempt anything when they realize she is not only not alone, but there are several others either living there or visiting often.”
“So,” I asked, “you’re saying she has to get some roommates? Her place really is not that big. I’m not sure that’s going to work.”
“Not roommates” he said, “just their voices.” That’s when he told me about The Voice Changer, which you can get at www.yoursecurityandsafety.com/voicechang....
“With The Voice Changer,” he said, “your daughter can answer the phone every time with a different voice, just by pressing a button.”
There are two versions, he said, TVC-1 disguises your voice by digitizing it; the degree of change can be adjusted as you are speaking by pressing a button on the front of the unit. Melinda can make it sound like a man or just a different person. She can even make it sound like a robot.
TVC-2 has 8 different voice changing settings. Just press a button and a man can sound like a stranger, a woman like a man, a granddad like a child, etc.
That was the answer, no doubt. I ordered TVC-2, gave it to my daughter, explained how to use it and suddenly the strange phone calls have halted. To callers who don’t know her, it probably sounds as though she is running a rooming house. Good. I haven’t heard too many instances of a rooming house being invaded by a predator.