Has your cell phone ever done anything like this?

[KLynnTX]

The last call I received on my cell phone was two days ago from "Sally".

 

This evening, I'm standing there talking to Sally, at a baseball game, and my phone starts ringing. I look at it, and it says I'm receiving a call from Sally. I can see her husband standing on one of the fields, and I say, if this is your husband calling, let's walk over there, I'm out of minutes, I don't want to answer. She says, I don't think he's calling. I show her the phone. We walk over to her husband, and he is not calling.

 

We look closer, and the phone call is originating from their home number.

 

No one is home, as they and their kids are both at the baseball game, with us.

 

However, their home is where I received my last phone call---two days ago. I had answered that call by the way.

 

By the time we figured out how unusual this was, my phone quit ringing, and so we have no idea what happened.

 

Any ideas? Does this even make sense?

[klmama]

Cat playing with the phone accidentally pushed your number on speed dial? I have no idea, but having had a cat turn on the Roomba on purpose, repeatedly, I give them more credit than most people might. :)

[Tap]

I have got messages 2 days after they were sent, so yeah, I can see a call getting lost in space too. If you picked up it probably would have been a dead line.

[Blueridge]

Was your cell phone inside your purse, where perhaps the talk button was pushed inadvertently? That would make the phone redial the last call it had received. A very strange occurrence!

Ginger

[KLynnTX]

But it wasn't my phone calling Sally's house back. It was Sally's house calling me.

 

If my phone had called her, it wouldn't have rang. Right?

[Blueridge]

Did Sally by chance set her home phone to forward to yours since she knew you would be at the game? I imagine she would have already told you that, though. Maybe I should vote for the cat theory :D. My hubby is a cellular network engineer...I'll give him a call and see if he has any ideas.

Ginger

[KLynnTX]

No, she didn't set it to fw, and that was the only call I got. Thanks for asking your dh, I'm so curious!!!

[Mommyof4ks]

My mother has that happen to her sometimes also. She will call me 'back' at home and ask what I needed, only I had not called her on my cell and my cell phone was off at the time. Very strange.

 

Maybe it is a Tx thing, because that is where we are too lol.

[Blueridge]

Well, dh was rather stumped by this senario, too! He did say that sometimes when a voice mail has been sent, there can be a delay (caused by something known as a delayed message waiting indicator). That can be caused by network congestion, so on extra busy calling days or times like holidays or rush hours, the messages are delivered later than they have actually been sent. So if Sally had left you a voice mail (or even if she called you but you did not answer, your phone would go into voice mail mode), that would be a possible reason for your phone ringing later on to deliver that message to you. If not, he has no idea. :D Thanks for listening to me ramble~

Ginger

[CalicoKat]

The last call I received on my cell phone was two days ago from "Sally".

 

This evening, I'm standing there talking to Sally, at a baseball game, and my phone starts ringing. I look at it, and it says I'm receiving a call from Sally. I can see her husband standing on one of the fields, and I say, if this is your husband calling, let's walk over there, I'm out of minutes, I don't want to answer. She says, I don't think he's calling. I show her the phone. We walk over to her husband, and he is not calling.

 

We look closer, and the phone call is originating from their home number.

 

No one is home, as they and their kids are both at the baseball game, with us.

 

However, their home is where I received my last phone call---two days ago. I had answered that call by the way.

 

By the time we figured out how unusual this was, my phone quit ringing, and so we have no idea what happened.

 

Any ideas? Does this even make sense?

you were spoofed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caller_ID_spoofing

[Jean in Wisc]

you were spoofed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caller_ID_spoofing

 

In order for someone to spoof her with a number already in her cell phone, wouldn't they have to know both of the people and know that they were friends? Does that mean the caller is someone these people know personally?

 

That seems creepy!

Jean

[Jean in Newcastle]

My landline did this for months. Every morning around 4 or 5 am the phone would ring. It would be a different number calling each time. Most of the numbers were telemarketer numbers so of course I did not recognize them. But then there were a couple of numbers that I did recognize: a couple of friends and my sister. None of them had called me at 4 or 5 in the morning. I finally figured out that my phone was somehow redialing calls that had been made to me the previous day. I don't know why. It was a land-line so the telephone company told me to unplug everything (phone jack etc.) and reset it. It hasn't happened since. But I don't know why or how that would happen with a cell phone.