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Assuming you have an unlimited messaging contract, I'm curious how long it takes before you're asked to help rescue the baby's inheritance from unscrupulous bureaucrats in Africa.

Ask him if he wants a used butt plug instead.

Learn how to say "I don't speak Cantonese very well," except learn how to do it with very poor grammar.

I once got the same reaction by telling somebody that I didn't speak French, in the graceful flowing language that I had learned from a call center.  The reaction was less confusing when I added in a thick southern accent.

Didn't Monty Python do a skit similar to that?

Bren, you might enjoy this site:

http://www.textsfromlastnight.com/

Some gems:

:and then I told her I was too drunk. She started to cry, and told me this always happens to her and that she thinks shes ugly. I pretended I was asleep and then she farted.

:I fell asleep next to my cousin and woke up with my hand in her pants because i though it was lisa

:I just woke up with the words DO IT on my hand and six beers in my purse.

: what happened last night?
: u kept telling him to f*** u optimus prime style
: that explains why his roommate kept saying autobots roll out this morning as i left

Last edited by StaticAge (2009-10-12 11:30 am)

She just wanted him to transform into someone else, that's all.

Test, we're talking about voice calls from folks mistakenly dialing my number, not a texting environment.

It's really quite odd. I'd not completely sure the calls are all coming from the same number. I'm guessing there's some type of directory or resource for Chinese-speaking people in San Francisco that's mistakenly listing my number.

I wonder who they think they're calling?

Bren wrote:

Test, we're talking about voice calls from folks mistakenly dialing my number, not a texting environment.

It's really quite odd. I'd not completely sure the calls are all coming from the same number. I'm guessing there's some type of directory or resource for Chinese-speaking people in San Francisco that's mistakenly listing my number.

I wonder who they think they're calling?

Oh, I guess I misunderstood. From the original post I thought you were getting text messages then calling the sender to see why they are so smurfed up.

Whatever, I'm sure they know exactly who they are calling, and why.

Bren wrote:

It would appear AT&T's system is just randomly messing up and making it look like other people's text and multimedia messages are originating from my phone.

This is part of AT&T's customer service program. They cause all sorts of random weird crap to happen so you will call their customer service number. They "fix" the problem immediately then proceed to up-sell you to other AT&T services you don't already subscribe to. This up-selling is the primary purpose of AT&T customer service. Customer service reps receive the same training and use the same software as the telemarketers who call you at home - the only difference is who makes the call. On the second day of the 6 week training program we were told straight out, "Your job is to sell. If you don't sell you won't have a job". The next day I showed up and told them they weren't paying me enough to keep myself drunk enough to live with myself if I continued working there and thus ended my employment at AT&T.

Also, your number could be spoofed. Pretty easily. Haven't made any enemies lately have you, Bren?

I suspect that someone mistyped their number on some flyer or such which said something like "LOST DOG / BIG REWARD / CALL xxx-xxx-xxxx" and distributed them in Chinatown of SF. Maybe not for a dog but something that would be of interest to recent immigrants from China.

As to the original txt message: probably someone who simply mistyped the number they intended to txt.

There was a period of time when on my cell phone I would get calls--usually from Saturday through Monday--from guys asking for "Lisa" (or some girl's name, I forget what it was precisely). I imagine that there was some hot-looking chick somewhere who would write down my number on a napkin to brush off guys that approached her at some club over the previous weekend. You could easily hear the disappointment in their voices after I told them that there was no Lisa here. Long after they stopped I wish I could have gotten a few more calls so I could have answered with something like: "Lisa? Is that trannie tramp still giving out my cell?? Listen, next time you see 'her' tell her to stop doing that!!!" and hang up.

Last edited by D'Eyncourt (2009-10-14 3:55 pm)

This is apparently a common phenomenon. My wife kept getting texts from some knuckle dragger that couldn't take the hint that his ex-gf did NOT still have that number. Despite the fact that his g/f was probably black (based on the name), and my wife sounds pretty obviously white, he kept calling and texting daily. This went on for a while, until he threatened to hunt her down and beat her if she didn't bail his ass out of jail.

At this point, we requested that text messaging be turned off, and that the smurf in question's phone number be blocked. I'm not sure if the block worked or not - perhaps he didn't get bailed out, and is now serving time for something. Who knows, who cares. In hind sight, we should have called the jail, and mentioned the threatening text message...

Bren wrote:

They let him keep his celly while sitting in a jail cell?

;)

I actually wondered that at the time. If it weren't for all the other calls, I would have thought it was a prank.