Mobile Phone Number Query

gavmcfad

Not sure if this is the correct forum for this but i will give it a lash.
Actually i'm not even sure if this wasnt a wind up but it left me shocked.

I was in a bar in a town where i would not be known by many of the locals on Sunday, we got talking to a few lads and were having the craic.
The story came around to woman and i said i saw a fine looking bird in a cafe earlier that day but i didnt have the balls to go to speak to her or ask here for her number.
One of the lads who i never met before informed me that it is possible to get someones number without asking them. He said he could get my number within 5 mins without leaving the bar.
Now i am 99% sure that this lad was never in my company before.....but within a few mins he wrote down my mobile number on a beermat and handed it to me.
My mates swore to me that they never passed him my number. To be honest it kind of freaked me a bit.

My question is, was it a wind up and he knew my number anyway or did he have something to hack into my phone.

smash

hack in to your phone? seriously doubt it. He probably looked at your facebook or something.

Rogue-Trooper

www.eircomphonebook.ie

gavmcfad

steve06 wrote: »

hack in to your phone? seriously doubt it. He probably looked at your facebook or something.

All he knew was that i was called Gavin. Dont have my mobile number on facebook.

gavmcfad

Rogue-Trooper wrote: »

www.eircomphonebook.ie

Mobile Number. If he managed to get a landline number for me, he was better than i thought.

flyton5

Maybe you gave him your number after hooking up with him and you were just too drunk to remember...


ghey...

--Kaiser--

He probably saw this in the jacks
"gavmcfad takes cock - 087-1234567"

Adam

i'm guessing but bluetooth, sometimes your phone can show up as it's number when another person searches for phones in range.

The Highwayman

Adam wrote: »

i'm guessing but bluetooth, sometimes your phone can show up as it's number when another person searches for phones in range.

but only if you both put in a code to sync, no?

Adam

The Highwayman wrote: »

but only if you both put in a code to sync, no?

that i'm not sure of, i think only some phones have that requirement.

alwaysadub

Bluetooth i'd imagine. One of the lads in work did it to me before.

WindSock

gavmcfad wrote: »

All he knew was that i was called Gavin.

Gavin McFadden?

Sam Vimes

Adam wrote: »

i'm guessing but bluetooth, sometimes your phone can show up as it's number when another person searches for phones in range.

I don't think it does. The bluetooth device has it's own address like a network MAC address. There would be no reason for bluetooth to broadcast your number or even have access to it. The only way it would happen is if the guy set his bluetooth name as his phone number.

I think it's a wind up tbh, he got your number from your mates or knew it already or something like that

El Weirdo

gavmcfad wrote: »

I was in a bar in a town where i would not be known by many of the locals on Sunday...

He probably knows you on the other days in the week.

gavmcfad

Some funny guys on here.

Lux23

Its possible some technies have some way of getting it but I would imagine he just text a couple of mates to see who had your number.

Logical Fallacy

gavmcfad wrote: »

Not sure if this is the correct forum for this but i will give it a lash.
Actually i'm not even sure if this wasnt a wind up but it left me shocked.

I was in a bar in a town where i would not be known by many of the locals on Sunday, we got talking to a few lads and were having the craic.
The story came around to woman and i said i saw a fine looking bird in a cafe earlier that day but i didnt have the balls to go to speak to her or ask here for her number.
One of the lads who i never met before informed me that it is possible to get someones number without asking them. He said he could get my number within 5 mins without leaving the bar.
Now i am 99% sure that this lad was never in my company before.....but within a few mins he wrote down my mobile number on a beermat and handed it to me.
My mates swore to me that they never passed him my number. To be honest it kind of freaked me a bit.

My question is, was it a wind up and he knew my number anyway or did he have something to hack into my phone.

Did you, by any chance, bet a pint on it?

orourkeda

Is he banging your oul one?

D'Agger

There's a bluetooth application whereby if somebody accepts it you can have access to their phone - contacts, messages, you can even set off the tones in it.

A friend of mine had it at one stage - is it possible you have your number in your contacts and he did this? - You'd have to have accepted a bluetooth recipient though.

It's either that or he's working for the CIA and knows everything about you because you're a target - are you in the human trafficing business or anything??

danniemcq

gavmcfad wrote: »

Some funny guys on here.

Really where?