Here is another spooky phone call, received by a friend just last week. It was from some scamster with a disguised number (UNKNOWN NUMBER / UNKNOWN NAME on Caller ID) and a thick foreign accent she guessed was Nigerian. That wasn't the spooky part, since he could have been dialing numbers randomly, dialing them in sequence, etc. Even the fact that her number is unlisted wouldn't have helped her there. The spooky part was the name the caller gave was the name of her dead husband. Given that both her phone number and street address are top secret (her mail goes to a mail drop), what are the odds this creep would have used that name? Cue the Twilight Zone theme song....


>I've one just as spooky:
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>A few years ago we got a phone call with the party saying, "You phoned us earlier and I'm just returning the call to find out who it is" (using automated call-back). I recognised the voice as one of our friends but could confirm that we hadn't actually called him.
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>It turns out my toddler daughter had used the phone but how she hit his number I don't know; the number wasn't stored on the phone on speed-dial so I can only assume she'd hit his number at random. But of all the numbers in the world ...
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>>Can someone rationally explain this :)
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>>Last night I left my pc on the table, and went to make myself cup of coffe.
>>Being that my almost 3 yr old daughter was arround I closed all projects and left only empty VFP command prompt.
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>>When I was back, I found her with hands on top of my keyboard having
>>Windows Task Manager open over VFP window !
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>>Seem that I never learn my lesson, as I can still remember smile on my son's
>>face banging on my toilet doors - with both CD tray and the disc itself!
>>(It was back in 1999 when he was just 14 months old)
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