Weird phonecalls

7sr2z3fely84g5 · 07-06-2011 8:16pm #1

Where you ever a victim of weird phones calls or voice mail messages...

chin_grin · 07-06-2011 8:17pm

You first.

staker · 07-06-2011 8:18pm

*breathes heavily*

policarp · 07-06-2011 8:19pm

F off you ould Goose...

AnnaGram85 · 07-06-2011 8:19pm

No .

Naikon · 07-06-2011 8:19pm

Got a call from this indian guy professing the dangers of the internet and asking me to allow windows remote access. Told him I was running OpenVMS(lie). He hung up:cool:

chin_grin · 07-06-2011 8:20pm

Hello Fran. <shudders>

Latchy · 07-06-2011 8:22pm

Got a call on mobile today which I didn't get time to answer but other than 'caller unknown ' no .

Kevin Duffy · 07-06-2011 8:24pm

I get calls saying "pay your overdraft" and things like that. Perverts.

markc1184 · 07-06-2011 8:26pm

Got a call on the house phone at 3:30 on Saturday night. Some lad singing down the phone and saying he was sorry for everything and he didn't mean for it to happen. Put the phone on loud speaker and he only stopped when my girlfriend burst out laughing. He Realised then he had the wrong number. Weird call but a funny one.

BengaLover · 07-06-2011 8:28pm

Naikon wrote: »

Got a call from this indian guy professing the dangers of the internet and asking me to allow windows remote access. Told him I was running OpenVMS(lie). He hung up:cool:

I had 3 of them in one week..
I took great pleasure in playing the silly computer illiterate lady, and hope it cost him on his next phone bill..

sunflower27 · 07-06-2011 8:29pm

Yes, 3.

Not 3 calls, 3 the company

Naikon · 07-06-2011 8:32pm

BengaLover wrote: »

I had 3 of them in one week..
I took great pleasure in playing the silly computer illiterate lady, and hope it cost him on his next phone bill..

That is a good one. Bunch of scammers.

RachaelVO · 07-06-2011 8:33pm

Naikon wrote: »

Got a call from this indian guy professing the dangers of the internet and asking me to allow windows remote access. Told him I was running OpenVMS(lie). He hung up:cool:

I've gotten a few of them in my Dads. Kept them on the phone for ages. I know they were pretty much trying to take me for all I as worth (wasted their time there), but I must say, even when I told them they were scammers, they were very polite!

sunflower27 · 07-06-2011 8:34pm

Actually, this thread reminds me of something that happened about 10 years ago in Galway. I was walking past a phone booth (they still had them back then) and the phone was ringing.

I know it sounds a bit like a movie, so I said to my friend, should I answer it? She said, yeah go on. So I answer the phone and say hello and some guy asks to speak to someone. I replied (in my Australian accent) 'Sorry, I think you have the wrong number, this is Sydney, Australia'.

He screamed 'WTFFFFFFFFFF' and immediately hung up.

Ah, good times

themadchef · 07-06-2011 8:36pm

Otto Disgusting Surf wrote: »

Where you ever a victim of weird phones calls or voice mail messages...

Weeding out the venerable?

Naikon · 07-06-2011 8:36pm

RachaelVO wrote: »

I've gotten a few of them in my Dads. Kept them on the phone for ages. I know they were pretty much trying to take me for all I as worth (wasted their time there), but I must say, even when I told them they were scammers, they were very polite!

You need to worry about the polite ones alright!

Mary28 · 07-06-2011 8:36pm

Got a few weird txt messages from someone once but I just ignored them, maybe they were mistaken identity but I wasn't bothered enough to contact them back.

My dad was the victim of nasty calls. Previous employers of mine were also. Just cowardly c^nts who can't say what they want to your face. Change your number & don't waste your energy wondering about them.

I have some friends with pretty quirky senses of humour too that did some weird things like put ads in buy&sell for something mad cheap and give someone elses phone no. so that person was inundated with calls from people looking to buy X.

Hoof_Hearted · 07-06-2011 8:40pm

Scammer calls: I like to say, in my best 'old lady' voice "Sorry dear, I can't hear you properly, just hold on and I'll get my glasses", then leave them holding, and holding...

sunflower27 · 07-06-2011 8:43pm

Otto Disgusting Surf wrote: »

Where you ever a victim of weird phones calls or voice mail messages...

Where? Yeah, usually my mobile

madison2011 · 07-06-2011 8:50pm

I always do, I even store the no's as 'pranks' in my contacts on mobile in case I'm murdered at some stage. Had a weird call on land line last Saturday. Also, weird people are attracted to me on public transport, in the street and when I'm at any do. I have the weird magnatron built in because I don't have the heart to tell anyone to feck off - and they can smell that. There but for the grace of god...and all that. BUT I'm gonna get meanner and meanner real soon.

RachaelVO · 07-06-2011 8:52pm

Naikon wrote: »

You need to worry about the polite ones alright!

One of them sounded REALLY educated, really good English still had an Indian accent, but it was really clear. I got him talking about his mother, and I told him he was disappointing her, and that she was thoroughly ashamed of him! It was such a laugh. Well it was a laugh for me cos I knew what the call was, but I kinda hoped with the amount of time I kept him on the phone that I delayed him calling someone who was on their own, and not so savvy, and that maybe by the time they got around to calling them they weren't alone. Maybe not, but I'd like to hope so!

ejmaztec · 07-06-2011 8:54pm

My missus was getting some weird and abusive calls, but they stopped after she had a restraining order put on me.

im invisible · 07-06-2011 9:02pm

sunflower27 wrote: »

Where? Yeah, usually my mobile

well, if it wasnt the house phone...

im invisible · 07-06-2011 9:18pm

RachaelVO wrote: »

but I kinda hoped with the amount of time I kept him on the phone that I delayed him calling someone who was on their own, and not so savvy, and that maybe by the time they got around to calling them they weren't alone. Maybe not, but I'd like to hope so!

i remember one day i was at home all day, just sitting around with my mam, at some stage i went out to meet up with a few mates, i had been on the computer, and didnt turn it off, my mother wouldnt be the most computer literate person, but she likes to play freecell
anyway, found out later i was only out the door when one of these guys called the house, my mother answered and was chatting away to him, said he sounded really educated, a bit of an Indian accent, but very good english, and it was really clear.
he got her onto the computer anyway, and shur im sure you can imagine what the end result was...

*goes off to google what these guys actually do

RachaelVO · 07-06-2011 9:25pm

im invisible wrote: »

i remember one day i was at home all day, just sitting around with my mam, at some stage i went out to meet up with a few mates, i had been on the computer, and didnt turn it off, my mother wouldnt be the most computer literate person, but she likes to play freecell
anyway, found out later i was only out the door when one of these guys called the house, my mother answered and was chatting away to him, said he sounded really educated, a bit of an Indian accent, but very good english, and it was really clear.
he got her onto the computer anyway, and shur im sure you can imagine what the end result was...

*goes off to google what these guys actually do

Aw, your poor mam, I'd say the thought she was doing the right thing!

Obviously my ploy didn't work then

Senna · 07-06-2011 9:51pm

o2 got my number wrong when i moved back to them, they changed one digit and for an hour i had somebody elses phone number. One of the messages i got was informing this person that his/her uncle had got through the operation successfully. Felt bad as he/she might have been worried waiting for that message.
o2.......what a useless shower of pricks. They did send me a hamper for the mistake;)

up for anything · 07-06-2011 9:57pm

Naikon wrote: »

Got a call from this indian guy professing the dangers of the internet and asking me to allow windows remote access. Told him I was running OpenVMS(lie). He hung up:cool:

He rang me too. I told him I used Linux and he hung up. What's Linux?

:D

Fago! · 07-06-2011 10:01pm

I left myself a drunken voicemail telling myself to get milk and other jibberish. Does that count?

languagenerd · 07-06-2011 10:17pm

When I first got a camera phone, an unknown number sent me a very blurry naked pic... I deleted it, then a week later got a text saying "What, not talking to me now?" - No, as it happens!

Another time a girl rang my number by mistake and thoughtI was answering her boyfriend's phone. "Where's Sean, ye tramp? Put him on right now! What are you doin answerin his phone? I know he's with you, ye slut!". When I pointed out that she had the wrong number, she called out a number to me and I said "No, that's not what you dialled". She retorted "We'll see about that!", hung up and pressed redial. Idiot!

cosmicfart · 07-06-2011 10:19pm

I got txt raped once, it was cool :cool:

dr gonzo · 07-06-2011 10:20pm

Our housephone used to get calls at odd hours for months, there was always quiet on the other end, they were odd to say the least, especially since they were going on for so long. So we finally call the phone company who went to apparently great lengths to find out our number was stuck in some sort of infinite loop in one of their computers, case closed and not very creepy in the end.

Theres another strange one. Every single new years eve for the last three years i get texts and calls from some slighty deranged drunk girl trying to win back/crucify some lad ive never heard of and every single time i tell her she has the wrong number.

...for three years, talk about carrying a torch/grudge and how she still hasnt deleted my number is a pertinent question too

languagenerd · 07-06-2011 10:33pm

Just remembered, last year we kept getting phonecalls on the house-phone asking about the "grey-footed geese" we had apparently advertised in Buy & Sell. Some of the messages on the answering machine were hilarious - one man with a thick Connaught accent forgot his own phone number and hung up.

Never did find out whether it was an elaborate prank or just a misprint in Buy & Sell...

Foxhound38 · 07-06-2011 10:51pm

I'm a property manager so I get plenty of them - just last week I got a voicemail threat from a lad I was kicking out of a flat (seems he was surprised to hear that I was serious about the 28 days notice I gave him subsequent to 2 garda raids on his flat, a callout for domestic abuse and 5 weeks unpaid rent) that he would be waiting with a hammer the next time I entered the premises and only one of us would be leaving. Of course, he started the voice message with "It's ______ _______, from flat _ in ______ road" - good to see a lad not wanting to waste Garda time, the stupid bollix...

Cupcake_Crisis · 07-06-2011 11:05pm

I got a really weird phone call off some absolute scaldie telling me he lost all his apples. He asked me buy him some more apples becaue he had no money left and he needed the nutrients. Tbh I was just really impressed that the sap could pronounce 'nutrients'

Kevin Duffy · 07-06-2011 11:07pm

Cupcake_Crisis wrote: »

I got a really weird phone call off some absolute scaldie telling me he lost all his apples. He asked me buy him some more apples becaue he had no money left and he needed the nutrients. Tbh I was just really impressed that the sap could pronounce 'nutrients'

D'ye give him any apples? Seems unfair to ignore a cry for help from the apple-deprived.

Cupcake_Crisis · 07-06-2011 11:13pm

Kevin Duffy wrote: »

D'ye give him any apples? Seems unfair to ignore a cry for help from the apple-deprived.

I refuse to provide scaldies with apples. I'll not be responsible for prolonging their lives.

parker kent · 07-06-2011 11:14pm

I wasn't the victim of one, but actually gave somebody a weird call by accident.

I was going over to my friend Laura's one night. She didn't want me to ring the doorbell as she was having housemate issues and instead wanted me to ring when I got there. Her friend then heard it was me on the phone and said "remember he can't get in without the password "Fúck me hard". Big laughs etc etc.

So then I got there and clicked down to L on my phone and hit call. As soon as it was answered I said "Oooh fúck me hard!". Which didn't get a response. To which I went "Laura I'm outside!" in a quizzical manner. At that moment I looked down and spotted that I had in fact rang another girl called Laura who I once worked with on a college project. All I could hear on the other end was a confused, slightly freaked out "Who is this?

". This was a few years later so she probably had a new phone and hadn't saved my number. Cue panic from me and I immediately hung up and rang the actual Laura I was going to see!

About 2 minutes later my phone rang and a male voice was on the phone giving me all sorts of abuse whilst not paying attention to my "I dialled the wrong Laura...the wrong Laura".

So yeah, that went well :pac:

Kevin Duffy · 07-06-2011 11:16pm

parker kent wrote: »

I wasn't the victim of one, but actually gave somebody a weird call by accident.

I was going over to my friend Laura's one night. She didn't want me to ring the doorbell as she was having housemate issues and instead wanted me to ring when I got there. Her friend then heard it was me on the phone and said "remember he can't get in without the password "Fúck me hard". Big laughs etc etc.

So then I got there and clicked down to L on my phone and hit call. As soon as it was answered I said "Oooh fúck me hard!". Which didn't get a response. To which I went "Laura I'm outside!" in a quizzical manner. At that moment I looked down and spotted that I had in fact rang another girl called Laura who I once worked with on a college project. All I could hear on the other end was a confused, slightly freaked out "Who is this? ". This was a few years later so she probably had a new phone and hadn't saved my number. Cue panic from me and I immediately hung up and rang the actual Laura I was going to see!

About 2 minutes later my phone rang and a male voice was on the phone giving me all sorts of abuse whilst not paying attention to my "I dialled the wrong Laura...the wrong Laura".

So yeah, that went well :pac:

And that is the case for the defence m'lud.

parker kent · 07-06-2011 11:32pm

Kevin Duffy wrote: »

And that is the case for the defence m'lud.

I would have a pretty iron clad case given I had eye witnesses and phone records to back me up :pac:

jimbobaloobob · 07-06-2011 11:36pm

sunflower27 wrote: »

Actually, this thread reminds me of something that happened about 10 years ago in Galway. I was walking past a phone booth (they still had them back then) and the phone was ringing.

I know it sounds a bit like a movie, so I said to my friend, should I answer it? She said, yeah go on. So I answer the phone and say hello and some guy asks to speak to someone. I replied (in my Australian accent) 'Sorry, I think you have the wrong number, this is Sydney, Australia'.

He screamed 'WTFFFFFFFFFF' and immediately hung up.

Ah, good times

i like this thread great laughs reading it. this one reminded me of being on the aran islands 13 years ago, i was on the phone in the phone box when it started ringing even though i was on it. Told the folks id ring them back. Hung it up and it still rang so i answered it. Lady on the phone asked me to get off the phone so she could make a call properly. Said she kept hearing me on the other line. (i can only imagine there was some fiddling going on to allow her make calls out through the phone box number)

Barnsleyfc · 08-06-2011 12:09am

1 day about eight years ago got upwards of 100 by someone claiming to be Colin McRae with a crashed Subaru in a thick northern accent! another time my mother answered my phone and an elderly sounding English lady kept saying you probably don't know who I am repeatedly before hanging up!

superrdave · 08-06-2011 1:04am

languagenerd wrote: »

Just remembered, last year we kept getting phonecalls on the house-phone asking about the "grey-footed geese" we had apparently advertised in Buy & Sell. Some of the messages on the answering machine were hilarious - one man with a thick Connaught accent forgot his own phone number and hung up.

Never did find out whether it was an elaborate prank or just a misprint in Buy & Sell...

surely an elaborate prank. i'd guess 50% of the ads in buy and sell are pranks. tractors? with dublin numbers? riiiiiiiight....

languagenerd · 08-06-2011 1:09am

superrdave wrote: »

surely an elaborate prank. i'd guess 50% of the ads in buy and sell are pranks. tractors? with dublin numbers? riiiiiiiight....

I know, I live in Dublin so I don't know where they thought we were raising these geese :P. But no-one ever owned up to it! Surely if you went to that amount of trouble for a prank, you'd take the credit for it?

parker kent · 08-06-2011 1:39pm

superrdave wrote: »

surely an elaborate prank. i'd guess 50% of the ads in buy and sell are pranks. tractors? with dublin numbers? riiiiiiiight....

Best I ever saw was a hat for sale that had been worn by Mel Gibson :pac:

Speaking of weird phonecalls, somebody rang my parents housephone once looking for Jackie Russell, then they barked and hung up. As you do.

Smiley G · 08-06-2011 1:56pm

3 weeks running i got a text around 5pm on the friday asking if i was going down to Quinns tonight.
i didnt recognise number so simply ignored it, figured they'd find out their mistake once down the pub. One of the nights the same number text me around midnight saying they were in Quinns and couldnt find me

I have never drank in Quinns...

Lando Griffin · 08-06-2011 2:29pm

I once did this to my OH when she rang…
OH “Hello Lando”
Me “No Lando, Me Diametri, ( Country name ) refugee.
OH “What?”
Me “Me Diametri ( Country name ) refugee.
OH “This is Landos phone, can you get Lando please”
Me “ No Lando phone, you want buy phone?, I have many phone”
OH “Have you stolen this phone, I will call the Guards”
Me “No stolen phone, you want buy phone?
OH “Right, I am ringing the Guards”
Me “I do not know this Guards”
OH “Police Ok!”
Me “Please? What you speaking now, what phone do you need?”
OH “POLICE you know ne na, arrest you”
Me “Nooo, I am refugee, I have many children to feed”
OH “I couldn’t give a f**k, you s**mbag”
Me “You Irish, you very rude, you need phone?”
Oh hangs up.

Witchie · 08-06-2011 2:43pm

My brother and I used to have phone numbers with only the last digit different so one day I rang him and left a voicemail coz he wasnt answering. while I had been ringing him i could hear a call coming in on my phone so after leaving an irrate message telling him to ring me back, I hung up and saw I now had a voicemail message as well as a missed call.........from myself.

No I am not blonde.

I also was walking through my town one day and the phone box phone started ringing and I answered it. Some guy told me that the white van across the road had a bomb in it. Living in a border town where there had been many bomb scares, I wasnt taking a risk and rang the guards. Turned out the van was a mate of mine's boyfriends and he wasnt too happy that it was towed off and searched! Ooops.

chickenbutt · 08-06-2011 2:46pm

I used to get loads of voicemails off this one woman who would just talk for 5 minutes in Spanish but I wouldn't have a clue what she said. Then one day I heard a message from her but in English saying that she was praying for so and so (whoever she confused me for). The calls stopped after that.

I get loads now from an unknown but it's always silence on the other end, except once I just heard a man laughing.

Kevin Duffy · 08-06-2011 2:46pm

Smiley G wrote: »

3 weeks running i got a text around 5pm on the friday asking if i was going down to Quinns tonight.
i didnt recognise number so simply ignored it, figured they'd find out their mistake once down the pub. One of the nights the same number text me around midnight saying they were in Quinns and couldnt find me

I have never drank in Quinns...

The immutable laws of the Universe dictate that this was someone very hot and available of whatever gender you fancy, who tried to get you to the pub to fill you with drink and get with you, but you ignored them....

Alter-Ego · 08-06-2011 4:23pm

A few years ago for a short period of time I kept getting calls from scummy sounding teenagers inquiring about fake ID's. After a few calls of just saying no, I eventually started giving them the number of the local garda station saying it was the number of a solid guy who'd do them a good deal.

When I was about 16, me and a few mates would sit across the road from a phone box and call it when people were passing by, if they stopped to answer we'd go into the whole "Leave the package. We're watching you, no messing about" spiel. Some people got a bit freaked.

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