Prank calls

orange · January 9, 2003, 19:23

Do you often get prank called? Or get strange messages left on your answering machine/voice mail. I just got a very odd one. I think it's a (drunk) friend of mine, but I can't tell...

Flubber · January 9, 2003, 19:36

I have not had a prank call in years. The fact that we call screen might have a lot to do with it since we don't pick up if we don't know who you are. We avoid all telemarketers this way.

AS for strange messages, I have gotten incredibly detailed messages for a person that has the same name as me ( it was all business stuff) and once got a long message that sounded like the people had forgotten to hang up- a couple of minutes of faraway talking and breathing-- I figured thay had the phone resting on their chest or something.

Bereta_Eder · January 9, 2003, 19:38

I used to get one like every night.

He/she would not talk. Just call and wait.

What I did was to say in a very calm voice

"Look, I'm going to have to call the phone company and register for call recognition. If that doesn't work, I'll have to get an order and bypass your anonymous call system and then have to call the police to pay you a visit and check you out. But it is such a hassle, not to mention the waste of time. So please don't make me doing it".

He/she never called again

A what you could call, compassionate stalker?

orange · January 9, 2003, 19:42

ex-lover?

Graag · January 9, 2003, 19:51

I've never been prank called, but as I kid (like 7 or 8) I used to call people and pretend to be Chris Tarrant off the radio and tell them they'd won a prize. Though since I was 7 and giggling manically I don't think I was fooling anyone.

Bereta_Eder · January 9, 2003, 19:51

Orange,
No clue.

FrustratedPoet · January 9, 2003, 19:52

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Originally posted by Graag
Though since I was 7 and giggling manically I don't think I was fooling anyone.

The giggling manically bit sounds perfect.

orange · January 9, 2003, 19:57

so that was you then? I was crushed when I realized I hadn't won anything

Bereta_Eder · January 9, 2003, 19:59

You can stop waiting for the presents to come by now Orange

orange · January 9, 2003, 20:06

Graag · January 9, 2003, 20:06

Mix-up at the post office I'm afraid. Just wait 10 working days, and send your confirmation email with credit card number (for validation purposes) to me@me.com

Graag · January 9, 2003, 20:07

Q: Why is it when they say it'll be there within 5 working days it always takes 20?

A: Because no one does any ****ing work.

orange · January 9, 2003, 20:09

C'mon, no one has any particularly good prank call stories?

FrustratedPoet · January 9, 2003, 20:13

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Originally posted by orange
C'mon, no one has any particularly good prank call stories?

I've got loads, I just ain't gonna tell ya!

Bereta_Eder · January 9, 2003, 20:17

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Originally posted by orange
C'mon, no one has any particularly good prank call stories?

I once got a message on my answering machine from some guy we used to work with on a side project. He told me something about the job but then apparently did not hang up correctly so the phone was still on.

He had some friends over, from what it sounded like, and he started talking about me.

And the machine recorded everything.

I didn't know him very well, just a couple weeks.

It was interesting to find out what he thought about me

Some of those were very flattering, others were a bit "bad"

(basically that I was a very talented, educated and intelligent colegue to work with but that I'm also a pr!ck that, err dont know the word in english, that I push others to do more work

)

FrustratedPoet · January 9, 2003, 20:19

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Originally posted by paiktis22
I didn't know him very well, just a couple weeks.

Nevertheless, it sounds like he had a pretty good handle on you.

Actually, the description "Intelligent. Educated. A bit of a *****" probably applies to about 90% of the people here.

Graag · January 9, 2003, 20:20

Someone once called up pretending to be a market-researcher, then half-way through the call asked if I was 'damp downstairs', started breathing heavily and finally coming a quick but pleasant orgasmic climax.
Oh no, wait, that was me.

Skanky Burns · January 9, 2003, 20:20

I've never really been into prank calls.

Bereta_Eder · January 9, 2003, 20:20

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Originally posted by FrustratedPoet

Nevertheless, it sounds like he had a pretty good handle on you.

Particularly that pr!ck part.

I was like huh?! when I heard the word. In Greek that word also has a meaning of being a bit manipulative of others and sneaky.

orange · January 9, 2003, 20:26

I just realized I have the option to trace the call on my phone if it was sent from someone on campus. Otherwise it will say "not on campus"

It was an off campus call. Likely not who I thought it was (unless it was a cell phone, which is also possible) but it was sent at 1 AM so probably during a party...hmmm...it's the actual words of the message that's throwing me off...unless of course it's 'real', which would mean I know exactly who it is

FrustratedPoet · January 9, 2003, 20:28

What are the words?

Go on ....

orange · January 9, 2003, 20:38

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Hello Bobby, it's the new boyfriend. Ah Listen..I just called to say that you blew it, and now it's mine...OK? So..so you just need to...just...stay away...from my baby...know what I'm saying? :laugh: Goodbye

Either it's one of my friend's playing a joke on our gay humour (the voice was very effeminite) OR it's my ex-girlfriend's new boyfriend. I think it's funny if it's the latter, since she's the one who won't stay away from me

Feckan Eejit · January 9, 2003, 20:49

just finished making a few prank calls

Zero · January 9, 2003, 20:54

I've gotten plenty of prank calls at my parents house. Usually I do *69 and cuss em to death and laugh myself. On campus bunch of girls called my campus phone and just pretty much giggled the whole time. Bah, girls dont know how to prank I guess...

My friend has these prank call programs that has arnold schwendfewbger or guy from evil dead saying some phone talk phrases (all from movies). When hes drunk he starts prank calling random people. He's also good at impersonating voices, including my favorite: irish accent... cause well he's irish.

Feckan Eejit · January 9, 2003, 20:57

whats the difference between prank calls and crank calls?

i think i might be more a crank caller

Tuberski · January 9, 2003, 20:57

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Originally posted by orange
C'mon, no one has any particularly good prank call stories?

In the hospital I used to work at, my friends office was right next to the locksmith's office.

We had a laptop computer that we used to communicate with thermostats in one of the buildings, so, of course, it had a modem. I think it was 800 baud. We used to, about every six month's use the modem to call the locksmith's office when we knew that he was in there.

"Hello?"

"Hello"

"HELLO?"

"If you can hear me, I can't hear you, call me back." and he would hang up.

So of course, being 5 feet away from him, and able to hear him we would call back- several times.

Eventually, he would call communications and have them check out his phone, which of course was working perfectly.

The last time we did it this way, we stopped calling after he called communications as we always did. Several hours later , the friend that was doing this with me was in the locksmith's office talking to him and forgot to put the laptop away, so, naturally I dialed the locksmith's office again and waited.

I heard: "hello....Hello?.......HELLO!"

At that point my friend comes running out of the office with his face bright red from holding in the laughter.

ACK!

Frozzy · January 9, 2003, 21:38

When I was 8 I put on a grumpy scottish accent and got a car insurance firm to cover my neighbour. He never found out who did it and he assumed it was his own son.

Graag · January 9, 2003, 21:47

LMAO @ Frozzy

Man that beats the hell out of my efforts.

Ubergeek · January 9, 2003, 22:14

I have to de-lurk and share a story of something I did in high school. At a party, a bunch of my friends were doing prank calls and they kept telling me I ought to do one. I had never done one before, but I figure, what the hey. So I got a phone book and looked up a random person, so I had their name and address...

And then I called them, pretending to be an IRS agent. I told them that we'd been going over their tax returns from three years before and found some discrepancies, mand that they had to gather the records for that and all subsequent years and bring them down to the office the next Monday morning. They got very angry and I put on a perfect condescending IRS-b*****d voice and told them, "I understand you're angry, but don't you think you should really be angry at yourself?'' That sort of thing...it was the single evilest thing I've ever done.

I gave them ten minutes, called them back and told them the whole thing had been a joke. Oddly enough, they weren't amused. I can't imagine why not...

orange · January 9, 2003, 22:16

hehe, why do you lurk Ubergeek?