Prank Calling

chideltjen · #1 05-19-2003, 02:50 AM

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????

SATX*APhi · #2 05-19-2003, 05:36 AM

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

juniorgrrl · #3 05-19-2003, 11:09 AM

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.

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

*evil grin*

Eirene_DGP · #4 05-19-2003, 11:23 AM

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.

valkyrie · #5 05-19-2003, 11:28 AM

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!!!

librasoul22 · #6 05-19-2003, 12:06 PM

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.

valkyrie · #7 05-19-2003, 12:18 PM

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.

jharb · #8 05-19-2003, 01:49 PM

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Originally posted by chideltjen
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.

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.

btb87 · #9 07-17-2006, 04:34 PM

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Originally Posted by jharb

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.

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?

valkyrie · #10 07-17-2006, 04:35 PM

Post the number here? LOL.

fullertongreek · #11 07-17-2006, 06:22 PM

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

SOPi_Jawbreaker · #12 07-17-2006, 07:52 PM

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)

carnation · #13 05-19-2003, 01:56 PM

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.)

Sadeyes21 · #14 05-19-2003, 03:11 PM

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

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.

Hootie · #15 05-19-2003, 05:00 PM

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.