Have you ever receive a prank call? How you deal with them?

My friends have sometimes called just to say something ridicoulous. Like hey, your elephant is in town or something and then they hang up and I laugh. Of course I know it is them. I have also tried to receice people calling wrong - an old lady crying and asking for her kids. Then I changed my number. For gods sake I did not know that woman!

it depends on my mood. If I receive a prank during my moody days I'd probably cuss at the person on the other line but if I feel like tripping as well, I'd play along. It's annoying to receive pranks when your doing something really serious though. Or when your waiting for an important phone call.

Here in the UK these sort of nuisance calls are illegal now, and they can easily be traced. I used to get a lot of nuisance calls, some of them in the middle of the night. I got an answer-machine after a while and unplugged the phone at night - that way I could still get any important calls that I would play back in the morning and the prank calls would find no joy in calling me. It wasn't ideal, but better than being awoken. It never happens to me nowadays and emergency calls can be answered at night. The sort of people who used to enjoy making the prank calls, know that they can be traced and do not want to take the risk. I think we have quite a good system in place here. We can also get the phone provider to scan all our calls before allowing them through. - Derek

Depends on the quality of the call. If it is genuinely funny and not offensive, i might go along with it for a little while. If the call is rude and immature as they usually are, immediate hang up.

Don't hang up the phone in advance. Next time, when it happens,you pick the phone up when it rings and hang it there, you can ignore it and keep sleeping, let it breathe along, as long time as he likes. You need say nothing and ignore that. If he thinks its interesting and have a lot of money to pay the telephone bill, let him paly along every night!

That's sounds scary! i feel afraid reading your discussion.. but I've ever receive crazy call from someone I don't know..the number is "private number" and he chuckle, laugh and mumbling on the phone.. First I turn off my cellphone immediately then that thing happen again until 5 times. It's late at night, 2 p.m and I was really sleepy. So I shout at him with impolite tone and said I can check his number and find out who's him because I have the machine for it installed on my cellphone and my father is a police and once I know him, he can be sent to the jail for terrorism me .. then he go away, never call back.. I found this method work on me^^,,

I haven't received any prank calls in a long long time... I guess it is due to the wonderful invention of caller ID! But, wayyy back when I did receive them I used to just hang up, end of story. :) Hope you have a great day! Jill

Hmmm... let me think... I don't think I ever received a prank call, when I make calls sometimes, when the receiver like my sister, she might pretend somebody else in the house to make fun on me but I don't think I count that as a prank call. And I can recognize who's voice is whose so if somebody that I know want to try this on me, I can know easily. ;-)

This happened some for to five years back. We had conducted a seminar for some MLM product. There was good response and we were also very happy. The next day morning some rival group i think called and aksed by my name and started asking unnecessary questions regarding the seminar and said it was illegal and have to report by noon at the police station. Initially we thought some of our friend was joking but started receiving more and more calls. My brother in law took a half a day permission from the office and we all reached the said police station. We were all tense as we had never stepped a police station before. When we said our story the officer in charged laughed and said it could be a hoax call just to scare you. We really heaved a sigh of relief. But till date we do not know who has played the trick on us.

For me I would say that it depends on the type of prank they are pulling out. When I was yung and my brothers would answer the phone and they would hear the some heavy breathing on the other lines they will say "thabk you for calling police department" and the line gets disconnected from the emd of the caller. But my mom used to get pissed specially when she is doing something so she had a caller ID installed and everytime we get that type of call then we anouncr the number of the caller over the phone and they get scared and hang up

Hello JamesKYTan this is checkmail and had been receiving prank calls in teh past when there was no caller ID for my phone.The call used to come in afternoon asking me that my phone number had won a prize and wants me to get the prize delivery, so are you available.First i nodded than talked straight to them that i am not interested in their offer.But they still keep on calling me again and again and when scolded, they said talk with their superior.He talked worse as thinking me getting guilty iof abusing the staff.But i stood and talked in their language and later it stoped.Its all means to do the pranks on the peoples its also called Bakra game here.

Someone must have 'cared' for you guys so much to pay that much time to pranked you! Jerks these people. I do the same too. Just hang up and keep it engaged. If it happens again and again for a very long period, I'll apply for a caller ID if it is affecting my fixed line. If it happens to my mobile, I'll just mute it and ignore it as I can see the number appearing...

the thing with prank callers is that the more you allow yourself to be affected by them, the more they like it. I'm sure we all had our shares of prank callers. I ahd my share too. So waht i did, i just ignore them. If they are persistent, I juts hang up the phone. Soon, they get tired and they just stop. These are people who have nothing better to do with their lives. I don't give them the satisfaction of ruining my day or my night whatever the case may be.

I have received 'em. Just by being cool and calm you can easily turn the prank upside down and against the caller.

lol That happened to me before. I don't know if it's a prank call or not but occasionally I would get calls from someone that doesn't say anything when I say "hello" or you can just hear them breathing which is really weird. I don't know if it's some kind of pervert, but when I get these calls, I just hang up. If you have caller ID, you can try to block them.

Oh yes, these pranksters are very free and I think they enjoyed it very much! Few years ago, at 2.15 am, we received a call...someone on the other side speak in Mandarin (Chinese language) to us and in a 'suspense' voice. 'Pls inform grandma not to go to the wet market tomorrow. Grandpa passed away, pls go back hometown tomorrow first thing in the morning!'. I can hear the back ground..there was someone else there..gigling but very soft & sounded far away! Due to the phone ringging that broke the silence of the early hours, it woke my mum and my sister up too! So, I just explained to them what the guy on the other end just said. A chilling sense go down thru our spine, and hairs stand on ends! We just keep calm and I do suspect it could be a prank call.. since this people did not identify who he was! So, the next morning, we make a call back hometown to asked the normal questions...how's is everyone back home...everyone's is FINE! What a PRANK call...but we are truly grateful, the call is just a PRANK call... Thanks and all the best! Do keep in touch!

i often get prank calls from my cellphone. If they answer me, i'll just have to tell them that i'm busy and have no time for nonsense stuff. if they don;t say anything on the other line, i'll hung up and if they continue on calling even if i hung up on them, I'll just have to put the mouthpiece near a radio or television and turn it on the highest volume. if still they continue to do it, i'll just have to put my phone on a silent mode or i put it at bedside without hanging up until they do.