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Title: Help with a practical joke (cell phone)?
Post by: Brad Johnson on October 23, 2007, 11:50:59 AM

One of the guys here is an incessant practical joker.  The good make-you-laugh-at-yourself kind, not the destructive fun-at-others'-expense kind.  I want to play a practical joke on him.  Is there a place online where you can type in a message or set up some kind of (nice) prank call to his cell phone?  Has to be relatively clean - rated PG at most.

Thanks in advance!
Brad

Title: Re: Help with a practical joke (cell phone)?
Post by: hexidismal on October 23, 2007, 12:47:36 PM

There was until recently a company selling phone cards which you could buy and in using them you could enter whatever number you wanted to appear on the persons caller ID. I believe they even offered some kind of voice changing. I wasn't aware they weren't in business anymore until trying to find it for this post. Maybe they got busted on people using it for illegal purposes.

Some general calling cards are semi-anonymous. Depending on the card companies level of service, the receiver of the call may or may not see the actual number you are calling from. Heres a test that someone did regarding this.
http://www.phonecarddepot.com/news/Are_Calling_Cards_Anonymous.html

Some cell phone companies offer free text messaging to their subscribers from their web site. You can enter that its from any name you want, but its pretty obvious that its coming from the company. There are also websites like txt2day.com that allow you to send text messages, but they also list in the message that it was sent through their own website.

Title: Re: Help with a practical joke (cell phone)?
Post by: Jamisjockey on October 23, 2007, 01:08:10 PM

Call 911 from his phone, tell them you're about to go on a shooting rampage.
 

Title: Re: Help with a practical joke (cell phone)?
Post by: Bogie on October 23, 2007, 06:05:42 PM

Forward every phone you come across to his phone.
 

Title: Re: Help with a practical joke (cell phone)?
Post by: Manedwolf on October 24, 2007, 04:11:58 AM

There used to be a thing where you could have Samuel L. Jackson call and yell at someone as part of the "Snakes on a Plane" promotion, but not sure if it's still there.

Otherwise, careful, the FCC has zero sense of humor.

Title: Re: Help with a practical joke (cell phone)?
Post by: Nick1911 on October 24, 2007, 04:19:40 AM

Quote from: Brad Johnson on October 23, 2007, 10:50:59 AM

Is there a place online where you can type in a message or set up some kind of (nice) prank call to his cell phone? 

Brad; If you tell me what cell carrier he has (Sprint, Cingular, etc), what message you want, and an email address you want it to come from (The email address can be made up), then I can send it to his number.

-Nick

Title: Re: Help with a practical joke (cell phone)?
Post by: Jamisjockey on October 24, 2007, 04:59:02 AM

Quote from: Bogie on October 23, 2007, 05:05:42 PM

Forward every phone you come across to his phone.
 

That's a good one, but how do you forward a phone that isn't networked together?

Title: Re: Help with a practical joke (cell phone)?
Post by: Balog on October 24, 2007, 07:02:03 PM

Quote from: Manedwolf on October 24, 2007, 03:11:58 AM

There used to be a thing where you could have Samuel L. Jackson call and yell at someone as part of the "Snakes on a Plane" promotion, but not sure if it's still there.

Otherwise, careful, the FCC has zero sense of humor.

That was great, a friend had em do it to my number. And he wasn't yelling, just telling you how awesome Snakes on a plane was.