What happened with my cell phone Saturday night?
“but her phone shows my phone number as the received call, and the voicemailer explicitly says she’s calling from my phone.” That strikes me as suspicious, like the kid who proclaims, “I didn’t eat any cookies!” before anyone ever accuses him of reaching into the cookie jar. Many, many times I have called someone from someone else’s phone. Sure, I’ll say, “Hey, it’s fogster” at the start of the call or message so they’re not confused, but, “Hey, this is fogster calling, and I’m using trokair’s phone!” is just weird unless I had been harboring a crush on trokair’s phone or something and was ecstatic to be using it. It sounds like she’s really trying to stress that it was your phone, since it’s just an odd thing to mention, or at least it sounds that way from your account. And since she was really trying to stress a detail that would ordinarily be irrelevant and uninteresting, it seems to me to further strengthen flug’s guess that it’s spoofed caller ID.
Let’s see if some simple logic will work this out: 1. Man A is dating Woman B; 2. A call is spoofed from Man A’s phone by a third party, to a girl friend of Man A, and the third party emphasizes it’s from Man A’s phone before dropping some fake drama, all anonymous; 3. A call is spoofed from an ex-boyfriend of Woman B to Man A’s phone. If we assume that the same person made both phone calls (likely, given the timing of the whole thing) and that there’s no reasonable way to assume that those two phone calls could actually break up or introduce doubt into the relationship between Man A and Woman B, there’s only one reasonable thing to assume: someone who was not in full possession of their faculties (ie drunk) and had an awareness of your relationships (between Man A, Woman B, girl friend of Man A and ex-boyfriend of Woman B) thought this would somehow introduce amusing drama into the social group. So — of the people you were with, who had your phone number, your girl friend’s phone num
…Let me get this straight — your girlfriend’s ex was at a party, where he most likely was drinking, denies having called you to leave a message from said party — and you believe him? Sorry, that was a little harsh of me…but I have a hunch it may be more likely that he tried a drunk-dial thing, but then after he sobered up realized it was a boneheaded thing to do, and is now desperately trying to pretend it didn’t happen so the whole thing blows over. As for the “it was a call from my phone” thing — hell, I got a call on my cell that was placed by my friend’s ASS. Hs phone was in his back pocket, and he happened to move in such a way that it triggered his speed-dial for my cell phone. So I got this bizarre message that sounded like rustling curtains with muffled talking in the background. It took us several minutes discussion later to figure out that that’s what had happened. So if my friend’s butt can manage to place a call, anything is possible.
Flug’s got it. No need to have access to your phone. No need for you to change your number, etc. Just to be 1000% sure you can probably log onto your phone provider’s web site and look at an electronic version of your bill to see outgoing calls. A greater concern is that it looks like you have a serious psycho in your social circle who needs to be dealt with.
