Has this ever happened to you ??
By spangles94
@spangles94 (546)
United States
February 9, 2007 12:43pm CST
Ok I know most of yall are gonna think im insane but i gotta ask if this has ever happened and what yall did when it did cause it freaked me out yesterday .... Ok so what happen yesterday was I was going about my usual houshold routine and all ya know then the phone rang and when I looked at the caller ID it said it was ME calling LOL seriously it had the house # and our name on there !! Ok ill admit that for a second I did wonder if I was calling myself from the future to warn myself about somithing or atleast give the winning lotto #s for that night ya know who knows at this point , so while i tenitavly answered the phone i found it to be nothing but a recording for some guy trying to sell me sattelite service!! geesh! Boy was I miffed got all freeked out for nothing lol, kinda makes me wonder what the telemarters will think of next !! So what do ya do in this situation ??
~M~
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35 responses
@nascar_girl_4jr (315)
• United States
9 Feb 07
Although this is the first time that I have heard of them using your own phone number as a "from" message on the caller ID, I do think this may be helpful. Telemarketers use a computer to dial your number to see when is the best time for a human to call back and get ahold of you. If you answer the phone and there is noone on the line, its more than likely a computer calling to see if you answer. What you would want to do is press the # key like 5-6 times quickly. This spits your number out of their computer listing, and you will no longer recieve calls from this telemarketer. I learned of this about 2 months ago and have dramatically cut my telemarketer calls down. Hope this helps.
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@spangles94 (546)
• United States
9 Feb 07
Yea I used to do that but since im in the somewhat telmareting job line , tho i dont auto dial ppl or buy leads or the like , just basic research ya know , when i get a telmarteer on the phone i stop and say man you know your really good at this ! have ya ever thought of doing this for a living and making some really good money ?? Most dont think im serious tho But I have had a few ask fro my email addy for more info ;) lol yep thats me always working LOL
~M~
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@soccermom (3198)
• United States
9 Feb 07
If you don't want to be bothered by telemarketers just go to www.donotcall.gov and register your phone number. You can also register your cell numbers. My hubby and I did this and all calls stopped within a month. Now if only I could quit getting sent junk faxes at work.....;)
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@ESKARENA1 (18261)
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9 Feb 07
hahaha so that is the latest scam to get round the caller I.D ill have to remember that one. I usually try to sell them something it gets them all confused and puts them off lol
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@spangles94 (546)
• United States
10 Feb 07
lol yea dueling telemareters LOL oh yea i love it when they get all confused :) yea im soo mean :P but hey the way i look at it , is they called me fisrt so they are free game :P
~M~
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@Jennibug29 (157)
• United States
9 Feb 07
Wierd things always happen with my celly. Lines are always getting crossed, I get random calls from people saying I called them. Hopefully this will stop since i switched carriers...
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@spangles94 (546)
• United States
9 Feb 07
lol yea that happens on my land line somtimes , once after a bunch of rain my line actually got switched with the neibors across the street LOL it was like that for 3 days LOL my friend had been trying to call me at the time too and finally thay got it fixed and the fist thing she said was man your neibors are (O**(^& LOL , of course this was not news to me tho , since they dont know us since we are WAY on the back of teh proerty and tehy only know our other inlaws wich is not a good thing for anyone LOL , anywho the most intresting time we got crossed was when i was on the phone again with my friend and all of a sudden these other 2 girls got on the phone and they were talking about a divorce apparently one of teh gals wer pretty mad about it ( but who can blame her right lol) the only thing was that me and my friend couldnt talk cause we couldnt hear ourselves over the other girls but hey it was kinda fun ease dropping LOL , hmm now i wonder how many bill collectors calls my neibors those 3 days LOL
~M~
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@judyt00 (3497)
• Canada
9 Feb 07
Talk about cheating. I suspect its illegal for companies to do that. If not, it should be! I'd have a little chat with my service provider and see if they sold that company the rights to do that. However, some people will do anything to make a sale. Now you know, next time don't answer calls from the future.
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@spangles94 (546)
• United States
9 Feb 07
Yea it does seem a lil fishy and im still a lil creeped out by this LOL , it just struck me as odd cause i have been having alot of weird things happening lately , still wish it was the winning lotto #s tho :P
~M~
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@smrohitsm (231)
• India
9 Feb 07
he he you do have all the ingredients of a mystry story writer. its funny how far you went on seeing your own no.
But you should have taken that company name and reported it to law authorities.
Thats plain cheating. Dont tolerate that, else it will encourage them to do the same to other people.
But I liked your thought in call from the future. I think I saw a similar concept in a movie, where a guy contact somebody in the future/past through his radio.
Good Imagination buddy :).
@spangles94 (546)
• United States
9 Feb 07
lol thanks , yea im told that alot actually ;) , I do have a few novels in my head but i just need to find the time to get off of mylot and actually put them on paper LOL
~M~
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@Signal20 (2281)
• United States
9 Feb 07
We currently have satellite service. We have it so it pops up on the tv when the phoen rings. I've noticed sometimes if the caller id isn't cleared out, when the next person calls, it'll pop up with last person that called. It's happened before to me, showed my cell phone calling in. I'd been the last person to call, so that's what was showing.
One time, I called home, and my husband didn't answer. He finally called me back, said it was my cell #, but someone else's name on it, some really out there name as well. And I'd had the number for several months. I guess they're just little glitches in the systems...
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@Datingtheplayer (661)
• United States
10 Feb 07
haha that's funny... i would never think of my future self calling me though... it is annopying that tellemarketers keep calling us... it just disrupts the flow of things
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@ilovesarwesh (148)
• India
9 Feb 07
This is really a very critical situation an din this critical situation I would have informed the local telephone exchanga and then I would have consulted po;ice also because the way he ws trying to sell his things come under crime.
@rezaahmed (81)
• Bangladesh
9 Feb 07
This is the example of the side effects of technological advancements.
You can do two things probably as there will be stricter control on business organizations unlike in my country.
One is to trace the number from where the call was actually made (probably from some telemarketing company)and request them not to call your number in future if you are not interested in there offers or line of product.
And the other thing is not to panic and get ready for more surprises when RFIDs will be mass implemented.
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@candygurl24 (1880)
• Canada
9 Feb 07
Well first off, I agree with others, I don't think it is legal either. Contact someone to see exactly what can be done.
Now let me get to what I would have done in that situation..lol.
Remember that old urban legend about the babysitter that keeps getting calls telling her that he's going to get her and all that? Well she calls the operator (before the days of call display) and asks for assistance, so the operator tells her that she will trace the call and get back to her. Anyways, after a few more calls, the operator calls this girl back and tells her that she needs to leave the house because the calls are coming from the same house she is babysitting in...turns out the guy was upstairs in an office type thing. So therefore, I would've taken one look at my number calling me, thought of that urban legend and ran for the hills! LOL.
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@iluvmydaisy (333)
• United States
9 Feb 07
I've never heard of this happening. I must say it has never happened to me. Thats weird. I wonder why it showed up as your name and number if it was someone els who was trying to sell you something. That is freaky
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@TrinityRose (462)
• United States
10 Feb 07
oh my god!!!!!! i thought it was just me!!!!! this has been happening alot so gosh i don't know!!!
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@spangles94 (546)
• United States
10 Feb 07
hmm i guess its some new thing the auto dialers are doing now days , but im gonna grab the phone next time it happens just in case LOL and if its still a sattilite guy ill just try to sell him some avon or somithing LOL
~M~
@mytwo_daughters (2663)
• United States
9 Feb 07
So funny, your story about warning yourself about something in the future. My caller id no longer works so I don't have that option to figure out who calls. Lucky me. Can you be put on a do not call list if you desire?
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@spangles94 (546)
• United States
10 Feb 07
no I cant put myself on the no call list cause I belong to some survey groups and they would not beable to call incase they have a survey for me over the phone, its not a big deal cause usually the telemarters #s come up as either and 800 # or even sattalite tv , so i dont answer the ones i really hate are the ones that come up unavailble and the first thing they say is please hold . .... HOLD geesh HELLO you called me call me back when you have time to talk LOL its just sooo rude :P
~M~
@shywolf (4514)
• United States
10 Feb 07
LOL!!! I wonder how that telemarketer managed to do that? What a nice way to fake out people into answering their phone, sheesh! At first I thought that you were going to say that you had accidentally left your cell phone somewhere and someone who had gotten ahold of it was calling you to let you know where your phone was. I'm pretty sure that just the other day I heard a joke or a story or something about someone who got a call from their own phone # and wondered what was going on til they realized that someone else had their phone *laugh* Anyway, I don't have caller ID at my home, so this hasn't happened to me, but it sure would have freaked me out for a second, too! ^_^
@spangles94 (546)
• United States
10 Feb 07
no thats the whole thing that freaked me out was that it wasnt my cell # on the caller id , it was the land line # ya know the phone that i was about to answer ! gosh i still get the hebbi jeebies thinking bout it LOL , I dont freak out when i see my cell on the ID cause my kids run off with the phone sometimes and call me from the otherside of the house LOL even tho I yell at them for using up my minutes LOL
~M~
@mbarryton (1872)
• United States
9 Feb 07
ive never experienced anything like that but my husband just said something about a feed back loop and it can happen but that it was over my head so i have no idea lol
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@rehabrehab (9)
• Egypt
10 Feb 07
Here in Egyot if you used your mobile and put your number trying to call your self it will appear on the screen of the phon your number is calling you........
so it may be in your country also
if I were you I will answer my self and see what was that.......donot be afraid .....
I dont think you will here yourself say hello anybody here Iam calling you from the future to advice you to do so and to not do so..........
I am totally sure it was fault that happend to your phone not more or less........
otherwise you were dreaming.......or as you said you may get insane.......I am laughing dont beleave ....But you know IU liked you ver much you are looking toooooo beautiful.........
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@spangles94 (546)
• United States
10 Feb 07
Yea im pretty sure it was an auto dialer that had a glitch but no i was not dreaming , lol i wish i was , lol no im not insane at least i dont think so , but i know a few who will testify in court that i am if need be LOL and thank for the comment ;) what gal dont like to hear somithing like that
~M~
