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micronesia
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States24753 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-01-22 22:08:01
January 22 2010 22:05 GMT
#1
A freaky thing happened to me yesterday. Let me provide some context by going back a bit further.

I got this cell phone (droid) and new phone number a couple of months ago. I have since gotten one or two wrong numbers which is no shocker since I'm guessing my phone number used to belong to someone else. I also signed up for no text plan which means I pay .20 per text.

A few days ago I got a text from a number I did not recognize (area code apparently is Orlando), saying something like "Don't text and drive, pass this on to all your friends." I just ignored it.

Yesterday morning I get a text wishing me a happy birthday from the same number (it isn't my birthday as my tl account will verify). Then a few hours later I got a call from them. I picked it up and there was some really strange singing of happy birthday (maybe a recording) followed by some girl saying a name with an upward inflection, trying to see if the person she was wishing a happy birthday to was still on the phone. So after listening to 30 seconds of madness and respond "I think you have the wrong number" and she pauses a bit and then hang up. So far this isn't all that odd.

A few minutes later I check the mail, and there's a card to my address except nobody lives here by the name it's made out to. Inside is a birthday card. The return address is in Brooklyn, NY.

I'm 99% sure it's a pure coincidence that these both happened on the same day, but the timing is just unreal...

How could these be connected?

edit: oh yeah and someone told me you don't pay for received texts unless you actually read them. Is this true?

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ModeratorThere are animal crackers for people and there are people crackers for animals.
Niton
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United States2395 Posts
January 22 2010 22:06 GMT
#2
On January 23 2010 07:05 micronesia wrote:
How could these be connected?


I'm pretty sure you have a ghost. Go see if the Ghost Hunters will be willing to help you out.
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rredtooth
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
5461 Posts
January 22 2010 22:13 GMT
#3
do you have multiple personalities?
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Pokebunny
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
United States10654 Posts
January 22 2010 22:17 GMT
#4
lol crazy

and I'm pretty sure you pay for all received texts whether or not you read them but I don't know for sure
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MiniRoman
Profile Blog Joined September 2003
Canada3953 Posts
January 22 2010 22:18 GMT
#5
Someone clearly tracked your phone to your apartment thinking you were the original owner. Now they are out to get you, good look.
Nak Allstar.
iNcontroL *
Profile Blog Joined July 2004
USA29055 Posts
January 22 2010 22:25 GMT
#6
Just give me what I asked for and the birthday celebrating will end.

Until then...

Happy fucking birthday HAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHHA
andiCR
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Costa Rica2273 Posts
January 22 2010 22:35 GMT
#7
that is incredibly weird :S
Nightmare1795 wrote: I played a guy in bronze who said he was Japanese. That was the only game I ever dropped a nuke, which was purely coincidental.
Disregard
Profile Blog Joined March 2007
China10252 Posts
January 22 2010 22:37 GMT
#8
Where in Brooklyn NY? I could deliver it
"If I had to take a drug in order to be free, I'm screwed. Freedom exists in the mind, otherwise it doesn't exist."
prototype.
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
Canada4215 Posts
January 22 2010 22:37 GMT
#9
well aren't you lucky, having 2 birthdays in one year
( ・´ー・`)
Jonoman92
Profile Blog Joined September 2006
United States9106 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-01-22 22:41:39
January 22 2010 22:40 GMT
#10
That's pretty weird. But happy b-day micronesia!

The other day I had some drunk guy repeatedly calling me telling me to stop f^*&ing calling him even though I'd never dialed him... And I've had this number for years.
Phelix
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
1931 Posts
January 22 2010 22:40 GMT
#11
An interesting tale, micronesia. I'll keep that in mind.
I do not know about the texting, though I believe that this is true.
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reincremate
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
China2216 Posts
January 22 2010 23:04 GMT
#12
On January 23 2010 07:40 Jonoman92 wrote:
That's pretty weird. But happy b-day micronesia!

The other day I had some drunk guy repeatedly calling me telling me to stop f^*&ing calling him even though I'd never dialed him... And I've had this number for years.


Some middle-aged eastern European woman called me telling me to stop sexually harassing her by phone even though I've had my number for a while now, so I think she might have just been a troll.
Trezeguet
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
United States2656 Posts
January 22 2010 23:36 GMT
#13
Hello Tyler Durden.
djcube
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States985 Posts
January 22 2010 23:51 GMT
#14
I'd be so paranoid if something like that happened to me. About the texting charge, I use ATT and don't get charged for texts unless I open them, but my friends with other service providers get charged regardless.
ThunderGod
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
New Zealand897 Posts
January 23 2010 00:29 GMT
#15
Over here we only pay to send texts - never to receive or read them.
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Dave[9]
Profile Blog Joined October 2003
United States2365 Posts
January 23 2010 00:31 GMT
#16
is she hot?
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=104154&currentpage=316#6317
micronesia
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States24753 Posts
January 23 2010 00:34 GMT
#17
On January 23 2010 09:31 Dave[9] wrote:
is she hot?

Couldn't make out her voice very well...
ModeratorThere are animal crackers for people and there are people crackers for animals.
nttea
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
Sweden4353 Posts
January 23 2010 00:48 GMT
#18
what the hell??? since when do you pay for recieving text, that's like paying for receiving phone calls. Is that an american thing?
stack
Profile Blog Joined March 2006
Canada348 Posts
January 23 2010 00:59 GMT
#19
i enjoyed reading this.
life is short, dont F it up
sqwert
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
United States781 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-01-23 02:40:01
January 23 2010 02:39 GMT
#20
On January 23 2010 09:48 nttea wrote:
what the hell??? since when do you pay for recieving text, that's like paying for receiving phone calls. Is that an american thing?

he probably doesn't have unlimited texting. if you don't have it, you pay for all sent and received msgs. i think the rate is like 10 cents receiving and 20 cents sending.

Happy Birthday, SIR! *ominous nod*
if everythings coming your way, youre in the wrong lane. sAviOr 4evar!
meeple
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
Canada10211 Posts
January 23 2010 03:10 GMT
#21
lol, I think you need to sign up for unlimited incoming or something to receive them for free.

That's pretty cool, but they probably just tracked an old cell number from someone else
OhThatDang
Profile Joined August 2004
United States4685 Posts
January 23 2010 03:19 GMT
#22
micro, every text sent or received is paid for
thats why people say "DONT TEXT MEEE"
troi oi thang map nai!!!
micronesia
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States24753 Posts
January 23 2010 03:24 GMT
#23
On January 23 2010 12:10 meeple wrote:
lol, I think you need to sign up for unlimited incoming or something to receive them for free.

That's pretty cool, but they probably just tracked an old cell number from someone else

It's 5 dollars a month for the minimum plan and so far I am averaging 2 per month. I have people I actually know e-mail me instead so it isn't a problem except for people I DON'T know.
ModeratorThere are animal crackers for people and there are people crackers for animals.
Atom Cannister
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
Germany380 Posts
January 23 2010 03:53 GMT
#24
Pay for receiving a text????
MADNESS
...
jello_biafra
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
United Kingdom6639 Posts
January 23 2010 03:58 GMT
#25
On January 23 2010 12:53 Atom Cannister wrote:
Pay for receiving a text????
MADNESS

Yeah that would be incredibly gay.

Pretty weird coincidence there lol. I've had some strange random calls in my time, some arabic guy calling me, thinking I was some guy called mike and claiming to be my father, some german guy insisting that I'd called him and one time my friend called me from his house phone a couple miles from where I was and for some reason it was routed through a Nigerian phone exchange, the line quality was awful.
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micronesia
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States24753 Posts
January 23 2010 19:14 GMT
#26
I just checked and I DO pay for texts, sent or received, regardless of if I open them.

I think I can deactivate them entirely if I want though.
ModeratorThere are animal crackers for people and there are people crackers for animals.
MasterOfChaos
Profile Blog Joined April 2007
Germany2896 Posts
January 23 2010 19:24 GMT
#27
oO paying for receiving text messages? I don't think there is a single phone company in Germany charging for that. You can't even control if you accept it. So how can they charge you?
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ShoCkeyy
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
7815 Posts
January 23 2010 19:28 GMT
#28
On January 24 2010 04:24 MasterOfChaos wrote:
how can they charge you?


It's the US, they do what ever they want!
Life?
micronesia
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States24753 Posts
January 23 2010 20:23 GMT
#29
On January 24 2010 04:24 MasterOfChaos wrote:
oO paying for receiving text messages? I don't think there is a single phone company in Germany charging for that. You can't even control if you accept it. So how can they charge you?

I think you have the option to deactivate all text messaging which makes it not completely evil but it's still pretty much bs.
ModeratorThere are animal crackers for people and there are people crackers for animals.
Sigh
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
Canada2433 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-01-23 20:37:23
January 23 2010 20:28 GMT
#30
It's the same here in Canada. For Bell, Telus, and Rogers users, unless you get a texting plan, they charge you money for incoming texts. So theoretically, somebody could be a total dick and spam you texts, and you'd probably have to pay for it. [ Which is total bs imo ]

NaDa/Flash/Thorzain Fan
micronesia
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States24753 Posts
January 23 2010 20:33 GMT
#31
On January 24 2010 05:28 Sigh wrote:
It's the same here in Canada. For Bell, Telus, and Fido users, unless you get a texting plan, they charge you money for incoming texts. So theoretically, somebody could be a total dick and spam you texts, and you'd probably have to pay for it. [ Which is total bs imo ]


Most likely you have the option of banning individual numbers. With Verizon I can block up to 5 I think.

Someone told me his friend was being a dick and sending him tons of messages which would piss me off too.
ModeratorThere are animal crackers for people and there are people crackers for animals.
Achromic
Profile Blog Joined September 2009
773 Posts
January 23 2010 21:10 GMT
#32
Happy birthday.
Blah
CharlieMurphy
Profile Blog Joined March 2006
United States22895 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-01-23 22:51:32
January 23 2010 22:50 GMT
#33
On January 24 2010 04:24 MasterOfChaos wrote:
oO paying for receiving text messages? I don't think there is a single phone company in Germany charging for that. You can't even control if you accept it. So how can they charge you?

you can actually, you have to go into a store or call and have them block text messaging service all together.


It is total bullshit though. And yea like every other country besides america has incredibly good cell phone plans. I think ireland was one of the best
..and then I would, ya know, check em'. (Aka SpoR)
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