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[dooBdoo]

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.

[dooBdoo]

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.

[colliemom4]

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

[dooBdoo]

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.

[newziesuzie]

On 5/15/2014 BonnieBelle said:

No.

I haven't either.