Ghost Calls: Has This Ever Happened to Anyone?

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-24 03:04:03 | Updated at 2024-11-24 06:14:43 3 hours ago

Ghost Calls: Has This Ever Happened to Anyone?
self | jimjohn

Posted on 11/23/2024 6:55:55 PM PST by jimjohn

So I get a call from my son at about 7:30 am. He’s freaking out wondering of something happened here since (according to him) I made 2 calls at approximately 1:28 am.

He assumed something must have been wrong for me to be calling so late, but we chalked it up to an infamous ‘butt dial’.

But wait: I was pretty sure I was in bed before then, and made that pretty clear. I then after checking my phone history I said, “can you check the number that actually called you, since I have no record of it on my phone?”.

He then immediately sent me a screenshot of his early morning incoming calls – with my number listed twice. Again, there is no record of a call being made to him or anyone at that time in the morning from my phone. Has this ever happened to anyone else?

TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Conspiracy; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: caller; id; phone; spoofing; tracking; vanity

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Has anyone ever heard of this?

1 posted on 11/23/2024 6:55:55 PM PST by jimjohn

To: jimjohn

2 posted on 11/23/2024 6:57:29 PM PST by silent majority rising (When it is dark enough, men see the stars. Ralph Waldo Emerson)

To: jimjohn

I get spoofed calls all of the time by telemarketers. Once MY NUMBER called me. So it’s a prank call by someone that knows him/you.

4 posted on 11/23/2024 6:58:15 PM PST by BipolarBob (Our prodigal Haitian son has returned!! Prepare the fatted cat.)

To: jimjohn

5 posted on 11/23/2024 6:59:12 PM PST by Repeal The 17th (Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)

To: jimjohn

Next time have him call *69 to call back the number that called him and freak them out.

6 posted on 11/23/2024 7:00:04 PM PST by BipolarBob (Our prodigal Haitian son has returned!! Prepare the fatted cat.)

To: jimjohn

I’ve never seen that. What I have gotten are voicemails from a phone number that didn’t ring my phone nor showed up in my phone log.

7 posted on 11/23/2024 7:00:38 PM PST by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)

To: jimjohn

8 posted on 11/23/2024 7:00:49 PM PST by Beowulf9

To: jimjohn

Yes. It’s an AI voice generator that can display any telephone number. And the voice generator will fool a person into thinking that their loved one is really on the phone and really in trouble.

The purpose of this scam is to have a reaction that leads the victim to release credit card info so the “loved one” can post bail.

9 posted on 11/23/2024 7:01:34 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (Climate Change is Real. Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall.)

To: jimjohn

Yes. I have gotten calls from my own phone number.

It is some sort of thing scammers do.

10 posted on 11/23/2024 7:01:52 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)

To: jimjohn

Yes, it happened twice and both times in the middle of the night. My phone was plugged in across the room, so I know I did not accidentally call. We were staying in a 200 year old Air B&B at the time, and though I never really thought about it until that moment, I did have that “ghost” thought.

11 posted on 11/23/2024 7:01:58 PM PST by Jessarah

To: jimjohn

Yes, I’ve been spoofed with a local, known number and it turned out to be a sales call, although I don’t remember the product or service, I do recall being shocked about being spoofed by a known number.

12 posted on 11/23/2024 7:02:57 PM PST by Obadiah

To: BipolarBob

That used to work on landlines, but does it work on cells?

13 posted on 11/23/2024 7:03:29 PM PST by MayflowerMadam (🎶 They're eating the dogs. They're eating the cats. 🎶)

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