Creepy caller harassing women-owned businesses in Oak Bay - BERITAJA

Some businesses owned by women successful the Victoria area opportunity they are being harassed by an anonymous caller.

They told BERITAJA that moreover if they don’t prime up the phone, the calls proceed and it’s affecting business.

“I cognize the day exactly, the 27th of March was the first clip this personification phoned,” Jennifer Brewerton, who owns Lazy Susan’s, said.

“And then, they phoned backmost connected the 28th.”

For the adjacent month, the calls kept coming and Brewerton said the man connected the different extremity said successful a whisper.

She described it arsenic creepy.

“What did I sell, what were the value points, things for illustration that and that went connected for a while,” Brewerton said connected the quality of the calls.

And the adjacent mates of weeks’ worthy of calls, they were gradually much intersexual and now, if I reply and say, ‘Lazy Susan’s,’ correct distant it’s a intersexual comment.”

Brewerton instantly reported the calls to the Oak Bay Police Department earlier posting connected societal media, saying, “We are not presently answering our shop phone. We are being harassed by a creepy, obscene telephone caller.”

It turns out, Brewerton is not alone.

“All of a sudden, 4 others said, ‘Hey, we cognize that voice, he has been phoning us, too,'” she said.

All of them person been women.

“They are each women-run and operated,” Heather Leary pinch the Oak Bay Business Improvement Association said.

“We cognize that he doesn’t telephone erstwhile a man answers so. He is decidedly targeting women and it’s conscionable very problematic.”

More businesses person since travel guardant successful Oak Bay and successful the Capital Regional District.

Police said they are investigating.

“When you person these types of telephone calls, the champion point you could do is bent up and erstwhile you’ve hung up, you’re dialing prima five, seven, successful bid to trace that number, and past interaction your section constabulary department,” Insp. Andre Almeida pinch the Oak Bay constabulary said.

Brewerton said she plans to instal a new, much modern telephone system, truthful she could do that.

“Really, I’m conscionable pissed off,” she said.

“I’m conscionable like, ohio yeah, you want to opportunity that to maine — bring it on.”