Prank Calling

jharb · #1 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 · #2 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 · #3 07-17-2006, 04:35 PM

Post the number here? LOL.

fullertongreek · #4 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 · #5 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)

Sister Havana · #6 07-17-2006, 08:28 PM

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.

RU OX Alum · #7 07-18-2006, 11:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Sister Havana

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.