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Spooky Call

fortune — Thu, 15 May 2014 04:44:15 GMT

Have you ever gotten a phone call from yourself? My phone rang several days ago. I checked the caller ID and was shocked to see my own name and phone number! I answered the phone and got my own recording..."We can't come to the phone right now. . ." How could this have happened?

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MomOf4 — Thu, 15 May 2014 04:47:09 GMT

No phone calls like that but I get emails from myself that are ads for products I have no interest in. Weird!

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scotttie — Thu, 15 May 2014 04:49:12 GMT

I haven't had that happen but I have had an answering machine call me back and continue with the recorded message when I didn't care to leave a message and just hung up.

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fortune — Thu, 15 May 2014 04:50:07 GMT

For a minute, I thought about the call and had a scary thought! I have a phone upstairs. What if someone is calling me from upstairs!!!! I checked out the house and felt kind of silly afterward!

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scotttie — Thu, 15 May 2014 04:51:50 GMT

On 5/14/2014 Fortune said:
For a minute, I thought about the call and had a scary thought! I have a phone upstairs. What if someone is calling me from upstairs!!!! I checked out the house and felt kind of silly afterward!

Please, don't feel silly. I'll bet that was creepy! I would have been frightened if I was home alone.

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sylviahomeatlast — Thu, 15 May 2014 08:24:06 GMT

I hate scary stuff. ((

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issiestorm — Thu, 15 May 2014 08:49:30 GMT

MomOf4, I think the emails from yourself are from someone who's hacked one of your email accounts. I sometimes get emails from my sister for ads that she's never sent. The hacker sends them from email accounts she no longer uses that they've somehow managed to hack into.

The phone calls are a bit creepier. When Fortune talked about checking the phone upstairs, I was reminded of that movie (don't remember the name) about the babysitter who kept getting weird calls that were coming from inside the house.

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Allegheny — Thu, 15 May 2014 15:49:03 GMT

Think it some kind of phone number spoofing. I googled it. Its such a shame we have to put up with stuff like this.

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gloriajean — Thu, 15 May 2014 20:22:00 GMT

That never happened to me but 11 years ago when we first moved here, I got some calls, a man - sounded foreign, who kept asking for my husband, and being he was working nights, I just asked what he wanted, he said this is just a courtesy call and wouldn't say. So we hung up and he'd call again a different day, same thing, and again, and when he called 5 times in a day, and the last call my husband was home and I gave him the phone, he (that man) hung up!! So I called the Telephone Co. who called a cop who traced the call, and I never got anymore of those calls. One day the cop came over to ask if I've been bothered anymore and I hadn't. Thank Goodness because I sure was getting scared!

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DoneTryin — Thu, 15 May 2014 21:05:01 GMT

It was the NSA calling

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dooBdoo — Thu, 15 May 2014 21:07:44 GMT

On 5/14/2014 Fortune said:
Have you ever gotten a phone call from yourself? My phone rang several days ago. I checked the caller ID and was shocked to see my own name and phone number! I answered the phone and got my own recording..."We can't come to the phone right now. . ." How could this have happened?

Hi, Fortune! I've heard of this happening as a part of the phone service. The voice mail system sometimes has a mechanism that actually calls you. The fact that you said you heard your own voice mail recording causes me to think that was it -- why not call your service provider and ask them?

Yes, that could be pretty eerie.

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dooBdoo — Thu, 15 May 2014 21:10:06 GMT

On 5/14/2014 MomOf4 said:
No phone calls like that but I get emails from myself that are ads for products I have no interest in. Weird!

That's a frequent ploy used by spammers. It's called "email spoofing." If you hover the cursor over the "from" (where it seems to be showing your name/address), you'll see the actual sender info. Also, you can check your "Sent" folder, and you'll see that the message didn't originate from your email account.

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colliemom4 — Thu, 15 May 2014 22:36:44 GMT

When I had a landline phone I had 000 on my caller ID about a dozen times and no one ever said a word.

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dooBdoo — Thu, 15 May 2014 22:38:20 GMT

On 5/15/2014 colliemom3 said:
When I had a landline phone I had 000 on my caller ID about a dozen times and no one ever said a word.

That's known as "caller ID spoofing," and it's illegal but hard to prosecute.

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newziesuzie — Fri, 16 May 2014 02:13:34 GMT

On 5/15/2014 BonnieBelle said:
No.

I haven't either.