Prank Calling
 

Errr... so pissed.

I first received a phone call about a month ago in the morning from a girl who asked if Jennifer L [last name] lived there. I said no, just Jennifer M. She is all, oh sorry, I must have the wrong number.

Two days later I get a call on my cell phone from a private number around the same time the last person called. The girl on the other line blatenly told me she needed to talk about my ovaries. Now at 8:30 in the morning, I ain't very quick... but this was just weird. She told me that I had had my tubes tied last month and that there was a mistake. There wasn't a Dr. referenced and obviously I hadn't had my tubes tied so I hung up.

I haven't gotten a call in a while but tonight, I swear the same girls called again, this time on my land line. I heard, Hi Jennifer how are you? (First of all no one calls me Jennifer and expects me to remember them unless they are the Dr or something. I am Jen to everyone else.) I asked who is this? I swear another girl came on and said Hi Jenny how are you? I asked who it was and she said I can't believe you don't remember me. I asked again who it was. She said, well you are in my phone book, I can't believe you don't know me. See I had this affair with your boyfriend... (That's funny cuz I don't have one...)
I said, you know... I grew out of prank calling in 7th grade and I hung up.

Where are these people getting my number? Especially my cell. My cell isn't listed in the phone book. My land line maybe, but it's just really weird. And why keep calling the same number back? Are people THAT bored???? :mad: :mad: :mad:

Ahhh, sorry. :( A friend of mine was receiving calls like this, only the prank caller was telling my friend that her husband was cheating on her with the caller. Don't you know sugar and gas tank came to mind. lol

We keep getting prank mail - and we're pretty sure its our obnoxious neighbor kids, because its the kind of stuff that you get in high school - Vector Marketing, the Air Force, etc.

It's all addressed to Whoa Booty. :rolleyes:

We went to B&N and got an assload of magazine subscription cards - the ones that say "bill me later".

*evil grin*

I haven't really had any experiences with prank callers, but the other day someone called for my bf's brother and I answered the phone. When I informed her that he wasn't there, she was like, are you sure he's not there...I hung up the phone on her. Then she called right back and was like, I have some stuff of his fathers here in my office and he needs to come and pick it up. Now at this point I was pissed that she would lie like that because his father died in Vietnam.

I'd try *69ing anybody who pranked me.

I don't really get pranks any more, but I'd appreciate a good one. I used to be a professional prank caller/pizza orderer. LOL.

Juniorgrrl, that magazine subscription thing cracks me up to no end! It reminds me of when I was in college and my friend and I used to mail random stuff to this guy she was dating. We sent him free ugly ass polyester pants in the mail (order now, pay later) in like size 900 and he showed up at her place one night wearing them!!!

LOL.

I used to love prank calling. It's harder now since people have caller ID and whatnot.

My faves:

We would call Red Lobster and ask if they had lobster tails. They would say yes, and we would say "it must be hard to sit down!"

3 or 4 of us would get together and call a random number. the first three would call maybe 15-20 minutes apart and ask for some made-up person (i.e. hi, can I speak to Bill?). Of course they would be like "you have the wrong number" each time. Well the fourth person calls a little later and says "what's up man, this is Bill, do I have any messages?"

Um yeah, lol. This was like in middle school so we were a tad immature but at the time those seemed like the greatest things ever.

Libra, you're cracking me up because I did the same thing!

One of my favorite pranks was calling someone up at random and saying, "This is <insert name here> from the phone company. We are going to be working on your lines for the next half hour, and it is VERY IMPORTANT that you don't answer your phone during that time."

Then we'd call back 10 minutes later, and when the person answered the phone, we'd just scream -- WHY DID YOU ANSWER THE PHONE?!!!! AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!

Yeah, that's so stupid on so many levels, but I thought it was hilarious.

Re: Prank Calling
 

I had similar things happening to me. It hasn't happened in a while but I was recieving harassing IMs, text messages and cell phone calls. It's really pathetic that at this age level people feel like this is still acceptable. I don't mean to sound b*tchy but after a point it's not funny...it's just annoying. :rolleyes:

Somebody stole my oldest high school daughter's cell phone. For reasons I forget now, she's pretty sure it was the Guatemalan kid whose locker is below hers.

The thief couldn't dial out on her phone because she had a code and the phone was abandoned and found at the school several days later. However, my daughter is STILL getting phone calls from someone with a Hispanic accent asking for Pamela. (There are no Pamelas in the school.):confused:

If a person isn't on my phone list for my cell phone then I don't know who they are usually so I call the number back. Well every few weeks I get a call and I call the number back and say," Yeah someone called me." Then they say they must have had the worng number. THEY give me attitude:rolleyes: I'm like excuse me you called me 1st.
On another note people often get my phone number confused with the rec center so I play around with them.
One guy wanted to set up a time to use the raquetball court. SO I set up a time, but I knew the rec center was closed then. If they call again I have some more fun ways to mess with them.

I didn't get a prank call but my cell phone rang one morning very early (like 7 am). I was too tired to answer it so I let my voice mail pick it up. Then I got ready for work and forgot all about the call.

So I arrive at work and go out for a smoke break with my coworker and I saw the number of the missed 7 am phone call. I called it back and it was this nursing home. I thought about my grandma who'd been recently admitted to one but released (it was temporary for her illness). I was all freaked out cuz my number isn't listed. I asked the secretary if someone by my grandmother's name lived there and she said no. I explained that someone from that number had tried calling me at 7 am and she appologized and said it must have been a wrong number.

That still freaked me out.

Grrr... :mad:

A couple of weeks ago, I got a call asking if this was the Smith residence (the name has been changed to protect the innocent :) but it was a fairly common last name.) I said no, you have the wrong number. Instead of apologizing and hanging up, the guy then said "Well, whose residence have I reached?" Me: "I don't give out personal information over the phone." (Meaning, unless I place the call or know the caller.) Him: "Well, what number have I reached?" Me: "What number did you dial?" He reads my phone number back to me digit for digit. So I said, "That is the right number, but there's no one here by that name. Please don't call here again" and hung up. (Rude? Maybe, but I was in the middle of dinner.)

As always, I came up with the perfect retort after I hung up: "Listen, I'm sorry if the chick you picked up at the bar last night didn't want to give you her real number, but THIS ISN'T IT!" :p

LMAO LAMO!! You were really creative!

That's great fun. My friend's number was one digit off from the movie theater in downtown Boston. Peopel would ask for movie schedules and he started making them up. lol.
-M

Oh no!! You all are awful... hehhehe :)


Of course, my silly friends and I indulged in the occassional prank phone call when we were in junior high school. One of my favorites was this one:

"Hello?"

"Yeah, hi, may I speak to Robyn Wall please?"

"I'm sorry, but there is no one here by that name"

"Oh. Is there a Stephen Wall there?"

"Sorry, nope"

"Amanda Wall?"

"No."

"Greg Wall."

"No."

"There are no walls at your house?"

"Noooo....."

"Then what's holding up the roof?!!"

hehehehe...we were stupid. :)


I also had a friend who did the most HEINOUS prank calls. He would call random numbers on the telephone and, if it was a male, would ask for a person with a common name like Michael. Without fail, he would get someone there with that name. Depending on how old the person sounded, he would start making up stuff as if he knew them. He would say that his name was John (who doesn't know someone named "John"?) and act like he went to high school with the "victim".

I remember one day he put it on speaker phone and a bunch of us listened in while he did this. The victim usually wants to be polite and tries to pretend that they know who it is. You can tell that they're really racking their brains to figure out who their "old high school buddy" is. Eventually the victim would start fishing around for things like "So...uhm...John, we had a great time in class together." And my friend would respond "Yeah, Coach was tough!" and the poor victim would think "Ohhh..we must have had PE together!"

This once instance I remember, the victim started filling him in on how his life went after high school, his wife, kids etc.... The victim then asked my friend about his kids and my friend started to flounder because he wasn't sure how old he was supposed to be. The man on the line got confused and then got suspicious. He finally got mad and my friend had to hang up.

I had no idea my friend did prank calls like this! I was so shocked that someone could carry on a conversation like that for so long! That's so awful! Funny....but awful! :)

.....Kelly :)

Grrr!! For the longest time, we had people calling our house constantly and asking for "Horizon Technology". We'd politely tell them that they had the wrong number. The caller would sometimes be so insistant that they had the right number that they'd get all fussy on me.

My father called up the company's main number and spoke to someone about it. It turns out that one of their departments had a phone number that was identical to ours except that the last two numbers were reversed. The supervisor insisted that the mistake wasn't theirs and that somehow, all of these folks were accidentally dialing the right number incorrectly. I'm sorry, but there were just WAY too many people for it to be accidental. So, we started interviewing the callers to find out how they got our number. It turns out that someone at Horizon Technology had printed a typo on the phone list and had faxed out my family's phone number to their customers across the country.

Though we figured it out, the company refused to go back and change the mistake. So, for several more months we had to tell people over and over and over that they had a misprint on their sheet and to dial again reversing the 3 and the 0. Even so, so people were so rude. They swore that, because their fax had our number on it, that we must be lying. One day I got so fed up with this one lady asking for some woman at Horizon Technology. After arguing back and forth with her about whether or not she had called a family home, I finally said "Yeah sure, I'll go get Mrs. So-and-so for you" and put the phone down on the kitchen counter and walked away. I suppose she sat there for a few minutes listening to us prepare dinner before hanging up. :rolleyes:

Eventually the calls stopped!!

.....Kelly :)

One day, soph year of college, Boy and I were really bored - so we decided to send his roomate all sorts of stuff from www.totallyfreestuff.com.

We sent him a Black History Month calendar, some posters of peanuts, some Astro-glide, a Purina Puppy Chow somethingoranother...and he'd go "man, I got the wierdest crap in the mail today!" Finally we fessed up. We still send him crazy stuff every now and then. Just to show we care :D

We used to prank call people with my brother's Pee-Wee Herman doll. You'd pull the string and he'd go "I know you are but what am i?" or "ARRRRG" or "I love you"

Well funny thing here...


First: When I first moved into the sorority house, there was phone service in my room... so I was like cool... and I would call my mom long distance. Well then we kept getting calls for a business... no biggie, but then you would hear another phone pick up and someone answer. They gave us a number thats in use!!! Well I got free long distance for a while... but ahhh!!!

My best friend's number in the dorm was say, x3456. Well to dial off campus you dial 9. Well the pizza place was 345-6789. So when the drunk people would come home and want pizza... they would forget the 9 and dial 3456... and it would ring in her room. She took so many fake pizza orders that year....

My phone number at home was close to a car service. Well at 2 am we would have people calling for rides and my dad got sick of it and would just tell them it would be there in 20 min.



But lately...
One night i get this IM from a girl under my AOL account - AliRae. My away msg said to IM under my AIM name, seeing that when i am home I use AOL to connect. So she IMs me and asks for someone that I dont know... Im polite and say theres no one there by that name. Then she says "Is this Alison 'some name'" and I tell her no. Then she says "Well my friend said she was making this name" and I said "Well obviously she cant cos I have it." And this person had to be like 14 by the way they were typing and also at one point I said something about me being dense... and she said "Denise? I thought you said your name was Alison" Well now she IM me under my AIM name and my AOL name telling me that her friend was going to make them. And then she makes other names and IMs me under them.

I AM SO SICK OF IT! STUPID 14 YEAR OLD!

I IMed back last time and it was finals week... it went something like this:
"I am in collge. I am 22 years old and have finals all this week... I havent slept in a very long time and I am not in a great mood... I am sick of being IMed by you and have better things to deal with than your petty bulls*it, so please stop."

she did so far...

:rolleyes:

This reminds me of something that happened to my husband. He had just moved into a new on-campus apartment. All the apartments had preassigned phone numbers. So, say his number was (617) 555-1212.

Just down the street was a Polaroid building. Their main line was (800) 555-1212.

So, suddenly my husband is getting all these calls for Polaroid's office on the street he was living on. Apparently it never occurred to some people that in order to dial an 800 number, you first have to dial 1-800. :rolleyes:

Finally, he called the people that administer the school's phones, and made them change his number.

When we were little we would prank call Beachy International. All I know is that they were British and we thought their voices sounded funny.

I have been getting calls on my private telephone line for Ginny and Jim Anderson for about 8 years now...as long as I have had the line. Most people get the hint after calling once and are nice. This one woman calls me every single year around the holidays and their birthdays and is IRATE that this isn't their number. She just doesn't get it.

I also apparently "stole" my cell phone from some guy named J, because he gets calls on it all the damn time from his thug friends, who think I took it. I finally called them back on their land line (go free caller ID) and threatened to call the police in their town (I recognized the extension) if they didn't stop calling me.

Ahhh! My friends and I were the queens of prank calling back in the day, we did it ALL the time. Luckily I have calmed down and I never do that anymore. I do vaugely remember prank calling the UNO Sig Ep house last winter break b/c my friend Lee, who is a member of that chapter dared me to. I called the house and said I was looking for a date with a hot guy. I made a total ass out of myslef b/c I didn't figure I'd ever know/see the person on the other end of the line. Too bad it turned out to be this guy I went to high school with! Oh the embarassment. :o

One of my roommates last year prank called the FIJI house and said she was looking for a hot guy who liked to get it on with redheads. Unfortunately for her she told him that she was the only redhead in Phi Mu, which wasn't a big deal since we never did anything with that house anyway. Well then, the next semester we got paired with them for Greek Week and whoever she prank called totally remembered that....yea she got a lot of shit for that one. :)

there was only one prank i used to do back in the day - and we used to almost wet our pants during the phone call from trying not to laugh.

we would look in the local paper at the birth announcements and pick out like "lauren elizabeth, daughter of steve and rachel smith" out, look in the phone book for steve and rachel smith and call them with:

me: "hey! can i speak to elizabeth?!"

parent: "i think you have the wrong number...."

me: "this is sarah from star 102.1 radio station and lauren smith was our 10th caller and won a [insert bands name] prize pack but she hung up before we could get all her information"

parent: "lauren elizabeth smith??"

me: "yes! she was our 10th caller!"

parent: "that is impossible....lauren is only 4 days old!"

of course the confusion on their part was hysterical, and the thought of a baby who was only 4 days old calling anyone on the phone was also pretty funny.

i loved being young and silly. now i am just silly ;)

A friend of mine and I used to call Victoria's Secret and ask them if they had various lingerie items in sizes to fit "a petite feline."

I know that makes absolutely no sense, but I can't even say that sentence out loud without turning into a hysterical, blubbering mess.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Now that's funny!!!



(Do you have Sir Walter Raleigh in a can??? Well, you better let him out!!!)

Re: Prank Calling
 

If go to Google and type in your phone number, i.e. 202-555-7639, it will return your name and address and even offer to give you driving directions to your house. Also, AOL White Pages, after searching for a name and city, it will return your phone number and all of your places or residence for the past five years.

You can choose to remove your information from both of their databases. I suggest you do a search and remove your info, you never know who may stumble across it and make your life hell.

OMG, me too. . . as a preteen too. :o

I certainly did my share of prank calls when I was a teenagers. Hey, what else is there to do in a small town when you are 14 or 15?? One of my favorites (with my best friend/cousin on 3 way) was to call some geeky/weird boy and tell him that I had a crush on him. I would call her high school and she would call mine (wouldn't want anyone to recognize my voice). We would tell them to meet us at a sporting event/skating rink, etc. the next week. We would die laughing when they showed up looking for their crush. Now that I think about it, that was really mean!!

I hate people who do the *69 call back thing though. "I received a call from this number." is just stupid. :rolleyes: If I had wanted you to know I called, I would have left amessage!!

ttt. . .
 

Speaking of which, I wanted to bring this back to the top becasue I've been getting harrassed by text messages - well, always the phone number without a message. Got 3 today, and 4 on Thursday. This has been going on for awhile, but it stops for several months, and then picked back up last month. I ignored it at first, but Thursday got fed up and called the number back. Of course, they picked up and hung up immediately. Called back and no one ever said hello, then they hung up. So I'm thinking it's kids that are bored and have nothing better to do. Called Cingular to see if there's any way to block certain phone numbers, and they say no. Thought about going to a pay phone to call the number to see if anyone answers. One rep I spoke with said to set up a Hotmail account and send them a message to "cease and desist or legal action will be taken". Now do you really think that they think anybody's gonna follow through with that?

Any other ideas?

Post the number here? LOL.

The other night the bf and I stayed at a hotel for our anniversary and the phone rings at 3:30 am, the conversation went something like this:

Other guy: "Is John there?"
BF: "John? Are you sure you got the right name?" (Bf's last name contains "john" in it so he thought the guy might have confused the name)
Other guy: "Are you staying at __ hotel? Room #__?" (he got the right hotel name and room number which was creepy)
BF: "uh yeah..."
Other guy: "I was just talking to you online in the XYZ chat room and you told me to call you"
BF: "definitely not..."

We think it was one of the people next to us since no one else would be able to spout off the hotel, address and room # like that...its fun to think think that one of the people next to us had a creepy cybersex fetis and got the numbers wrong ;)

I don't know if these were pranks or were just a case of mistaken identity.

Last year, at about 4am, I got woken up by a call on my cell phone. It sounded like there were a group of guys on the other line. They were trying to get me to go over. I kept asking who they were and how they got my number. They were like "It's Seth and Eamon from Beta. We met at the Darkhorse the other night and you gave us your number." And I'm like "I don't know anyone from Beta. I haven't been to the Darkhorse in over a year. And I never give my phone number out." They kept trying to talk me into going over to their house. I was like "I don't know who you guys are. I think you have the wrong person. Sorry boys, but it's late and I'm going back to bed." The whole thing was pretty funny and amusing, except for the fact that I have no idea how they got my name and number...unless they looked it up in the Greek directory and made up the story about meeting me at the Darkhorse.

Two days ago, I got a facebook friend request from this guy from Pittsburgh named Kip (he looked to be about my age) and a facebook message that went something like "Hey Amy, this is Kip ___ from the VFW in Monroeville. You submitted an application but you didn't put your phone number. Please call me or Alex ____ at (phone number). Also, please be my friend." WTF?? First of all, I never applied to anyplace in Monroeville. Secondly, if this was for real, why the friend request...it seems unprofessional if this was for real. If they really needed to contact me, why didn't they look up my email on the supposed application I submitted or looked up my PSU email address (since they knew my name and my school)

My grade school best friend and I used to do this one late at night when we slept over at each other's houses:
We'd call some number at random from the phone book. When the person would answer, we'd use our sleepiest voices and say "I'm sorry to bother you, but your dog is barking at my cat and I can't get to sleep." Most of the time, the person would say "I don't have a dog." We'd perk up and say "That's OK, I don't have a cat!" One time, though, the guy who answered said "Fine, I'll bring the dog in!" and slammed the phone down.

This used to absolutely slay us.

That is funny for grade school.

She was probably very certain, in her drunken state, that he WAS there and you were just lying to keep him to yourself!

These aren't necessarily prank calls, but worth noting...

1. My phone number is close to a nearby store's phone number. It's only off by one digit. Whenever people call here asking if I have a certain thing in stock, I answer "We have not had ______ in stock for 7 years, get with the times, buddy!"

2. I have a friend who sometimes answer our calls with a fart. Ewwww, lol. You hear *ring* *ring* *PFFFRRRRTTTTT*

Gotta love those people who can fart on command. Lucky dogs. :)

Was anyone ever young enough to get caught by the refridgerator running gag? And have friends young enough to actually DO it?

*raises hand* I must have been just old enough to dial the phone and know how to answer it, and so was my friend. Now it's just kind of embarassing to admit getting caught by it. :p