Texting the Wrong Number

[unholypet]

So, I recently got a long-distance friend's cell number. We both use Verizon, and get free texting.

I added his name to my contacts, and sent a few hellos.

A week passes, I get worried. Is he okay? I text him once a day, as we were using that to replace emails (since he lost his internet for a bit).

Another week passes, he gets his internet back! He says he never got ay of my texts, but his phone had been messing up.

Week three, and still nothing. We agree I text him every other day to make sure his phone can pick stuff up (the network was jammed in his area, and the reps told him they'd get to him in a bundle eventually).

Week four, its Friday at 6am. I get a call on my phone, but am too groggy to make it in time. Bah, answer the voice mail.

"You have ONE new message. Message ONE sent, Friday, 6:10a.m.;

I don't know who you are but you keep texting us and we are tired of it! We get texts every day at 4 in the afternoon and you have run our bill up very high! We had to pay 10 cents per letter you sent! WE COULD HAVE WRITTEN A BOOK WITH YOUR TEXTS!

This is way too much! Do you have the wrong number? I DON'T KNOW YOU--

NEW message ONE erased, end of NEW messages."


What took you so long to tell me then? Damn.

My friend ended up telling the reps at his store, and they agreed they pulled it out of their ass to make him go away

[powerboy]

I had that recently. I received a phone call, but I didn't answer it. Then about 5 hrs later, I had received a text saying "Whata up evea going2 stop faking?". Now when I called that number. I asked them about it, and they just told me that it might be a wrong number. Oh and yeah, it was spelled exactly like that.

[marasbaras]

Haha, try getting mis-texts in another language (Tagalog) ... "mzta k n b. mbti ko."

[Evil Queen]

Have I got a story for you about frekked up numbers.

It was about three years ago now, I would go into town with my Mom (where I got cell service) and every day I went I would get a voice mail message. It was always from this girl looking for her boyfriend Bruce. One day she sent me a pile of texts, racking up my bill and getting me yelled at by my folks (Hey, I have no idea who the hello it is!!) so I finally get a number that I can dial back on (they would input the call back number wrong) and gave this girl on the other end a nice loud scream (something along the lines of I have no idea who the hell you are, or this bruce b@$t@rd, and more then likely he's avoiding her sorry a$$, so on and so forth). Yes, I got the right person, because at this point I recognized her voice. You'll love this; she accused me of trying to steal her boyfriend. Pssssh! I told her to kindly F*ck off and promptly changed the voicemail message: [In the girlyest voice I could muster] "Hi! You've reached Bruce! *giggle* Please leave me a message and I'll give ya a ring right back! Tah!"

My then boyfriend got a huge kick out of it, as did my father.

Never again, did I hear from that girl looking for her "muffin" boyfriend, Bruce.

[Rine]

On the subject of dialing wrong phone numbers...today someone rang my house phone twice and would hang up on the first ring. This happened four or five times.

The line number was one digit off mine (ex. 1233 versus 1223)...I call the number back and I get some woman.

"Who are you?!" she says.

Me: "Well, you called my house five times. Who are YOU?"

Her: "I was just tryin to call my voice mail! You didn't have to call me back. You should have known I had the wrong number. ... Now I'm going to get in trouble because my phone rang at work. Thanks a lot!"

Me: "Er, okay. Make sure you have the phone number right the next time you dial it, missy. Byebye."

Weirdo.

[edible_hat]

There's a scam around here where you get a message saying something like "I'm sorry please don't leave me" (something that sounds like it would be really bad if it didn't get to the intended recipient) and when you reply saying they got the wrong number, it costs you $5.

[RedRoseSpiral]

On my old phone I used to get text messages and voice mails in spanish. Finally, the person called while I was at my phone and I told them they had the wrong number. I got a few more texts, but after a month nothing more.

[Hello Kitty]

My husband gets a lot of calls on his cell phone for somebody named "Ceasar". Apparently this Ceasar guy told ALL his friends, his dentist, his wife, the WRONG number, and he also put this wrong number on his business card! It seems to have tapered off, thank goodness. But shesh, you would think he'd know his own phone number.

[crazylegs]

It took them a month to get back to you to tell you that you were sending the texts to the wrong number, then they moan about the state of their bill? Id 10 T error I think.

Why do you have to pay to receive a text? In the UK no-one does that at all.

[unholypet]

Why do you have to pay to receive a text? In the UK no-one does that at all.

If you don't pay for texting availability on your phone, it charges.

[trunks2k]

I've occasionally gotten texts from numbers I didn't recognize and didn't make any sense to me, i.e. "When are we meeting up with Greg?". I don't know anyone named Greg. I usually respond back with a "I think you sent a text to the wrong person". But usually I'll only do that if it looks like the person was actually seeking information and isn't a "what's up?" sort of message.

I just hate it when I get the occasional spam text. I'd be pissed if I didn't have a text plan.

[Chattonne]

Several years ago there was apparantly a guy named Dave, who would pick up girls in bars and then give them a fake phone number. Problem was, the fake number happened to be my cell phone number. I got calls on a regular basis from girls looking for "Dave". Sometimes they thought I was his wife/girlfriend and tried to break it to me gently that he was cheating on me. Sometimes they would accuse me of stealing their man. Sometimes they would be sobbing on the phone, asking me what they did wrong, begging me to get him to call them back. This continued for three or four months. After that he either stopped being such a prick, or started using a different number.

[Finance Gopher]

I used to get random phone calls on my cell from random numbers in Kazakhstan. No kidding. I speak Russian pretty durn well, so I half understood what was going on. Russian's hard to understand over the phone for a non-native. Of course, when I responded that they hadn't gotten the right number, they fired back in Kazakh. One of these calls came in while I was working late (11PM having started at 8:30AM) at my old job in a law firm. I thought everyone was gone from my area, so when the call came in I started yelling at the person and cursing them out in Russian and German. It turns out that the partner whose office was catty-corner to my cubicle was in late. Luckily, she only spoke Spanish and Portugese (in addition to English), but she knew cursing when she heard it. She came out and demanded to know what was going on. I explained the all-hours calls to my cell. She thought it was hilarious. So did the Ukrainian cleaning staff once I translated for them. If only there was an easy way to block a number...

[redmountaingoldfish]

For several months my girlfriend recieved random calls from an elderly couple desperately trying to talk to their son William. No matter how much we explained that we didn't know a William, that this wasn't his number, and that they should stop calling, they just kept calling.

Initially I felt bad for them because I thought their son had disappeared, but after a while I became convinced that their son was spending countless hours trying to convince them that he had gotten a new phone number.

[wagegoth]

I got animated pictures on my cell of sexual acts from some woman who apparently was trying to hook up with some guy. Multiple times. I'd call her back and leave messages that she was texting the wrong person, but OMG!, PUH LEEZ make sure you have the right number before sending that #%&* out!

For a while some extremely ghetto woman was leaving messages for her friend on my home phone, despite my obviously not ghetto voicemail message and the clear statement of the phone number in the message, and, as time passed, her messages to her friend descended into screaming, extremely colorful, foul language and verbal abuse since her friend was obviously ducking her calls, and not her friend anymore, and not calling her back, and hateful and mean, and, and . . . . Since she didn't leave a phone number and I didn't get the calls in time to *69 I wasn't able to call back to tell her she had the wrong number. Finally, her brother called and left a message about how upset she was that her friend wouldn't talk to her, and she was so hurt, and her friend really needed to call her, so call back. Happily, he left a phone number, which I called and was able to speak to him and explain the situation. But, dayum!