Weird cell phone episode

[Monkeyleg]

I went to bed last night about midnight. At 1:11 am, my cell phone rang. Without my glasses, I could only make out the area code, which was my own. I answered the phone and heard someone playing music. It wasn't recorded music broadcast over the phone, but rather music being played on a stereo, boom box, etc.

When the music ended, the call disconnected.

I thought I'd call and see what kind of ahole calls at 1:11 am, and so selected the last call and hit the dial button. The land line phone in my house rang. I looked again at the call log on my cell, this time with my glasses, and the incoming call had been from my land line.

How would someone or something make a call to my cell through my land line? And how would that someone or something have both numbers?

I can't begin to figure this one out.

[fifth_column]

Temporary split personality?

Maybe?

 

This is one of the more bizarre things I've heard about . . .

[Tallpine]

This being the Poly-ticks forum, I'm going to say the NSA did it 

[AZRedhawk44]

The only logical explanation is that someone broke into your home and played music into your landline while calling you on your cell phone.  And you missed it.

Sleep safe.  

[bedlamite]

[TechMan]

Probably a Phreaker...hope you don't get SWATTED.

[Triphammer]

 "The call's coming from INSIDE the house!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! RUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[TommyGunn]

Anyone else in your house?    
If you were listening to music over your phone that was being played into a phone in your own house, it seems reasonable to believe it might have been audible without the phone.  
-or-
Do you have any ghosts in your house?

[RevDisk]

"The call's coming from INSIDE the house!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! RUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This.

I would have cleared the house while carrying the highest capacity firearm I owned.

[freakazoid]

Sooo.... what was the song?

[RevDisk]

Sooo.... what was the song?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VP5jEAP3K4

[Gewehr98]

Get

Out

Of

The

House

Now!

 

[robear]

Could have been a prank call from someone who was able to spoof their CNAM (caller ID name) to your home number.   A bit disconcerting that they would have both your cell number and your home number, and knew they were yours.

[Strings]

That is odd.

I would assume a spoofer too. And start getting nervous

[AJ Dual]

I’m going to guess it’s not targeted or personal. I would bet it’s phone scammers who have gotten some sort of cross-referenced data of cell phones and home in some sort of data breech that was subsequently sold on the black market.

They’re running an automated script late at night looking to find phone numbers/accounts capable of certain kinds of forwarding. The music in the background is to foil automation that hangs up on lines/calls with no noise, or if answered by a human, to keep them listening and saying “hello?” long enough for the detection routine to do its work.

 

The reason to spoof your home number is that a cell getting calls from a home number, or one just likely to be from the same last name as you and in your contacts list if it’s a relative etc. is you’ll pick it  up.

 

Then, whatever phones they find that have the needed forwarding service, they hack it, and use it to sell cheap stolen long distance line-time for international calls for third-world foreign workers living abroad, or route your phone into a 1-900 billable line. If they do it from the right countries and from the right circuits there’s no charge-backs so they can steal and keep the money, and the American consumer, or more likely, the carrier eats the fees.

[Scout26]

NSA Poltergeists.   

It's been nice knowin' ya.

[Monkeyleg]

I’m going to guess it’s not targeted or personal. I would bet it’s phone scammers who have gotten some sort of cross-referenced data of cell phones and home in some sort of data breech that was subsequently sold on the black market.

They’re running an automated script late at night looking to find phone numbers/accounts capable of certain kinds of forwarding. The music in the background is to foil automation that hangs up on lines/calls with no noise, or if answered by a human, to keep them listening and saying “hello?” long enough for the detection routine to do its work.

 

The reason to spoof your home number is that a cell getting calls from a home number, or one just likely to be from the same last name as you and in your contacts list if it’s a relative etc. is you’ll pick it  up.

 

Then, whatever phones they find that have the needed forwarding service, they hack it, and use it to sell cheap stolen long distance line-time for international calls for third-world foreign workers living abroad, or route your phone into a 1-900 billable line. If they do it from the right countries and from the right circuits there’s no charge-backs so they can steal and keep the money, and the American consumer, or more likely, the carrier eats the fees.

Andrew, my home phone doesn't forward to my cell. I don't have my cell and home phone listed together anywhere, although there are some people who have both.

According to my call log on my cell for my home phone number, I called it on Thursday and that was the last call made on my cell. So, when I looked at my list of incoming and outgoing calls, my home phone would have been the last number called except for the 1:11 am call. If that call somehow managed to not show in the call log, then it would have been the earlier call to my home phone that I hit (I wasn't wearing glasses). But how would the number not show?

I called my carrier and they gave me the phone number that called. It's another VOIP phone, this one from Blocton, AL. This is the first time that a call from a VOIP phone has resulted in anything other than a hang up.

Strange.

[fifth_column]

I’m going to guess it’s not targeted or personal. I would bet it’s phone scammers who have gotten some sort of cross-referenced data of cell phones and home in some sort of data breech that was subsequently sold on the black market.

They’re running an automated script late at night looking to find phone numbers/accounts capable of certain kinds of forwarding. The music in the background is to foil automation that hangs up on lines/calls with no noise, or if answered by a human, to keep them listening and saying “hello?” long enough for the detection routine to do its work.

The reason to spoof your home number is that a cell getting calls from a home number, or one just likely to be from the same last name as you and in your contacts list if it’s a relative etc. is you’ll pick it  up.

Then, whatever phones they find that have the needed forwarding service, they hack it, and use it to sell cheap stolen long distance line-time for international calls for third-world foreign workers living abroad, or route your phone into a 1-900 billable line. If they do it from the right countries and from the right circuits there’s no charge-backs so they can steal and keep the money, and the American consumer, or more likely, the carrier eats the fees.

"Ghosts" is certainly a simpler explanation . . .

[makattak]

Nice prank, Rev!

[Lee]

Someone who did not receive their moccasins.

[lupinus]

Someone who did not receive their moccasins.

Or haunted moccasins