What is the scariest phone call you ever received?
By Bon Sharaon
@boneysharaon (177)
July 3, 2016 8:24am CST
I will open the discussion with a call I received
One day I received a call from a woman who started yelling at me saying that "You stole my phone. Where are you? Give me my phone back!"
I said calmly that "You are mistaken. I did not steal your phone."
Then I hung up.
Moments later, I received a call from the same number, now a man speaking "Where do you stay? Tell me! I will beat you black and blue!" He used threatening words in the local language.
I hung up.
I received calls all night from him, but I rejected the calls.
Then 2 days later, I received a call from the same number and again the man on the other side accused me of stealing phone.
I got real angry and I asked him why he thinks so. He told me that the number I was using was his before. Then I tried to convince him that it was mine.
Then I remembered that in India, once a number is out of use for some months, that number is deactivated and up for sale again. It is informed before deactivating, but if the SIM is not in a phone for long, the owner cannot be contacted so the number gets deactivated.
Normally, thieves remove the SIM card and break it after stealing a phone so may be the SIM got deactivated after months of no use and then when I purchased a SIM card from a shop, I got that number.
So, then I explained to him to call the operator and ask for himself as to who is the owner of the number. He seemed to have called up and then I received a call of apology from him.
It was very scary for some time, but thankfully it ended well.
Have you received any creepy calls?
2 responses
@infatuatedbby (94914)
• United States
7 Jul 16
I have received threatening phone calls before asking for a particular person and If I don't rely the message they will get arrested.
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@boneysharaon (177)
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3 Jul 16
That was 3 years before and I had a Nokia phone which did not have the call block facility. Now with the iPhone, life has become easier.