Infinite Wrong Number
Over the course of the past month or so, I’ve been receiving a call from this 800 number (800-946-0075) every couple days or so. I always pick up with my standard ‘Hello, this is Damon’ and get nothing. Then the line goes dead. I’ve tried calling it back, but merely get a ‘the number is out of service’ message.
This has been going on for a while and it’s been starting to annoy me. So this morning, the phone rang again from that number. I picked it up and gave a very annoyed ‘Hello’. Finally somebody on the other end spoke and said “Fortino?”. Shocked into standard operating procedure, I said that no, they had a wrong number and they hung up on me.
This goes along quite nicely with the new number I just got for my work mobile phone.
It’s quite a nice number and apparently it was owned by somebody else not too long before I acquired it. How do I know that? Because I keep getting calls from people asking for Mike. When I explain that this is no longer Mike’s number, they mention that he owes a lot of people a lot of money and I should expect even more calls. Awesome. Way to go, Mike.
Update: Man, Mike musta really done a number. I just got some sort of automated call from Citibank…hehe.
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I still get calls for “Roy” and I have had my number for almost 8 months. Enjoy.
By jasonon 02.27.06 7:59 pm
Better yet, my phone number used to be owned by a kid who sold drugs to his friends. I’d get text messages from people looking for some guy. The Comcast automated calls began hitting my phone. I had to explain to Comcast twice that they had the wrong guy.
By Mike D.on 02.27.06 9:17 pm
My old nextel number used to be owned by a dealer too. 2 am id get 2 way beeps, then screams over my speakerphone saying “Deshawn! YOU THERE? I need a fix!”
No joke.
By Wagson 02.28.06 8:01 am
So D are you going to hook all your homies up?
Word!
By emhart1on 02.28.06 1:52 pm
That also happens to me. I dunno what the freaking problem is but it’s very annoying. I guess that’s the information age for ya. :\
By milkfilkon 03.01.06 10:50 pm
I’ve been getting phone calls from that same number… Every time I answer, the person hung up. Finally, I stayed on and kept on repeating hello hello… The guy on the other line finally said something. He talked in very shady gangster slang and asked if I needed money for my credit card. 800-946-0075 is a shady #! I wouldn’t answer any calls from this number.
By Anonymouson 06.13.06 2:32 pm
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