BERLIN (Reuters) - Police helping a German man track down a nuisance
caller discovered his tormentor for two years was a faulty card payment
system in a hairdresser’s shop.

The 58-year-old man in Frankfurt did not recognize the Hamburg number that kept ringing him and had it blocked.

After several months, he got tired of paying for the blocking service and the calls began again on working days.

Police traced the number to a Hamburg hairdresser whose payment
system dialed the man whenever it accepted a card. Staff were oblivious
to the problem, which is being fixed.

“When he picked it up he got no answer, and there was no response
when he called back either,” said Frankfurt police spokesman Manfred
Fuellhardt on Tuesday.

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