I didn’t answer it in time, but the caller ID showed my name and phone number. I’m at home, this was on my phone, it was showing it’s own number. 
Maybe it’s a good thing I didn’t answer. I may have been talking to myself! :eek:
But seriously, WTF?
This is not the first phone weirdness I’ve experienced recently. http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=8414769&postcount=35
Is someone playing head games with me? Is my phone company (Cavalier) experiencing a nervous breakdown?
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Maybe it’s a good thing I didn’t answer. I may have been talking to myself! :eek:
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Worst scenario, it coulda been an obscene call!
Apparently it is possible to forge caller ID.
So either the phone company has some computer bugs or some caller forged the caller ID. So basically, I can no longer trust caller ID.
Come to think of it, I’ve been finding some weird numbers on my caller ID recently.
This company actually sells caller ID spoofing!
https://www.itellas.com/signup.php?searchengine=google&gclid=CIXen7XKqYsCFQ9jgAodKSLJcw
There need to be new laws and some technological fixes.
“We’ve traced the call, and it’s coming from inside the house!”
I would definitely pick that call up. Obviously it was ‘future you’ calling to warn ‘present you’ of a horrible danger!
All of your current weirdness seems to point to a dangerous conspiracy in which you are playing a innocent part. And now you have shattered the chances of your future self warning you about it.
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“We’ve traced the call, and it’s coming from inside the house!”
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Yea, I thought of that line too. 
Of course in this case I know for a fact that I’m here alone.
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I would definitely pick that call up. Obviously it was ‘future you’ calling to warn ‘present you’ of a horrible danger!
All of your current weirdness seems to point to a dangerous conspiracy in which you are playing a innocent part. And now you have shattered the chances of your future self warning you about it.
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Maybe future me can send an email or something.
On the bright side, future-you did not call collect. So, you are doing OK financially.
When I try to call myself, to check what my message says, I get my voicemail instead, and have to menu down to the message.
[QUOTE=limanalee]
When I try to call myself, to check what my message says, I get my voicemail instead, and have to menu down to the message.
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That’s how I check my voicemail, by calling my own number.
[QUOTE=August West]
I would definitely pick that call up. Obviously it was ‘future you’ calling to warn ‘present you’ of a horrible danger!
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Or the Future You FAXing you the plans for the Time Machine.
You could really screw this up, fella.
[QUOTE=TroubleAgain]
“We’ve traced the call, and it’s coming from inside the house!”
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“It’s your father, and he’s been DRINKING!!!”
A virtual chocolate fish goes to the first person who gets this reference. Mr. S loves it and lobs it at me all the time – the quote, not the fish.
[QUOTE=Scarlett67]
“It’s your father, and he’s been DRINKING!!!”
A virtual chocolate fish goes to the first person who gets this reference. Mr. S loves it and lobs it at me all the time – the quote, not the fish.
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Stuart Smalley!
I want a REAL chocolate fish. Or a drink.
On the TMobile network the voicemail box has an option to send a numeric page, but if the person leaving the page doesn’t have a clear caller ID signal it comes in as a call from your own number, which then leads back to voicemail. This is probably something similar–sorry to be so mundane!
[QUOTE=SmartAleq]
On the TMobile network the voicemail box has an option to send a numeric page, but if the person leaving the page doesn’t have a clear caller ID signal it comes in as a call from your own number, which then leads back to voicemail. This is probably something similar–sorry to be so mundane!
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I’m sure that’s probably the case. The odd thing is that it’s never happened before, and I’ve received at least 2 such calls today. I’ll assume it’s somebody who’s network isn’t sending a proper ID signal or something like that.
Either that or it’s bizzaro-davidm calling from dimension-X to warn me of an impending interdimensional attack on our universe and to give me plans for the transdimensional quantum multiverse hopper that I can use to repair reality and save the day, but I’ll assume the more mundane possibilities for now.
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but I’ll assume the more mundane possibilities for now.
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Oh, fine, let the universe take care of itself, right? Not to worry! :rolleyes:
[QUOTE=carnivorousplant]
Oh, fine, let the universe take care of itself, right? Not to worry! :rolleyes:
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Okay, okay… If I get another call from myself I’ll answer it!
There are currently 4 Google ads at the bottom of this page. Three of them are for caller ID faking services.
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[li]“Fake Your Phone Caller ID”[/li][li]“Have Fun With Caller ID”[/li][li]“Fake The Phone Caller ID”[/li][/ul]
We definitely need some laws.
[QUOTE=davidm]
Yea, I thought of that line too.
Of course in this case I know for a fact that I’m here alone.
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Yeah.
Man, have you never seen a horror movie?
They always know for a fact that they are alone!
Tris