Private Phone Calls - Are they safe to use?

dublinman1990

At one evening around two months ago I was sitting just watching TV in my living room with my mum beside me minding my own business. Next thing my phone rings, I check to answer it and it comes up as a private phone call.

I said "hello" to this man who had a foreign accent. He says "Hello, Can I ask you something"? I said go on (Of course with advance caution).

He said, somewhere along the lines of this (since I have never spoken to this man before). Would you like to go out with me so we can have a good time?

And I said to him in reply "No". He asked "why?", I said, because I don't know you". He than goes and says : "Ooohhh, I going to do something real nasty to you". I said : WHAT????????? Sorry?????????. He says this sentence again with the word nasty in it for a second time.

I reply to him in turn and say "No........I don't want to do that Sorry" and I hung up straight away.

I asking myself what the hell was that for? I have no information to give to the Gardaí about this man or his number because it is untraceable because of the private number given to me. I didn't ask him for his name btw. I also didn't give him my name because of fear of invading my privacy. He didn't sound European. Probably Middle Eastern or Indian etc.

The thing is though if I ever see him out on the street here in Ireland. I have a very nasty temper btw in where I could give him such a fierce roar, it would be so loud it will probably make him p**s in his own trousers in an instant.

What I should do for advice in these circumstances?

Have you ever took part in a private phone call of a similar situation where something potentially nasty would happen to you?

snubbleste

I put your number up on the cubicle wall in the gents toilet.

Specialun

you prick teaser

kneemos

Some dirty little fecker pounding his dough.

Donkey Oaty

Donedeal had an article on this issue a while ago.

“If the number is withheld the recipient of the nuisance calls will need to contact the Gardaí to report the nuisance calls. The Gardai will then approach the recipient’s network provider to investigate the call data. The Gardai must make this request to initiate the investigation to take place. Once the investigation has been carried out and the operator identifies the number, it can then be blocked,” a spokesperson for eircom Group told DoneDeal.

Hande hoche!

The poor soul was probably deprived of sexy singles in his area.

The Backwards Man

Are you planning on roaring your head off at every man from south of the Urals that you see? Because I can't see that ending well.

SEPT 23 1989

your Dad?

I Heart Internet

dublinman1990 wrote: »

The thing is though if I ever see him out on the street here in Ireland. I have a very nasty temper btw in where I could give him such a fierce roar, it would be so loud it will probably make him p**s in his own trousers in an instant.

What I should do for advice in these circumstances?

Have you ever took part in a private phone call of a similar situation where something potentially nasty would happen to you?

The end of your story reads like it was written by a Nigerian prince with email access and a need to transfer some funds.

MRnotlob606

something rang be up before looking for sex

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo

Just do the nasty funky business with him tonight and get over yourself. You could cut the sexual tension with a knife up in here. :rolleyes:

MarkR

This happened two months ago, and you're worried about it now?

donutheadhomer

why you not want to speak to me?

Pat Mustard

MarkR wrote: »

This happened two months ago, and you're worried about it now?

Marco from Tropojë would need that time to sail over in his kidnap boat.

Good Loch.

Lou.m

dublinman1990 wrote: »

At one evening around two months ago I was sitting just watching TV in my living room with my mum beside me minding my own business. Next thing my phone rings, I check to answer it and it comes up as a private phone call.

I said "hello" to this man who had a foreign accent. He says "Hello, Can I ask you something"? I said go on (Of course with advance caution).

He said, somewhere along the lines of this (since I have never spoken to this man before). Would you like to go out with me so we can have a good time?

And I said to him in reply "No". He asked "why?", I said, because I don't know you". He than goes and says : "Ooohhh, I going to do something real nasty to you". I said : WHAT????????? Sorry?????????. He says this sentence again with the word nasty in it for a second time.

I reply to him in turn and say "No........I don't want to do that Sorry" and I hung up straight away.

I asking myself what the hell was that for? I have no information to give to the Gardaí about this man or his number because it is untraceable because of the private number given to me. I didn't ask him for his name btw. I also didn't give him my name because of fear of invading my privacy. He didn't sound European. Probably Middle Eastern or Indian etc.

The thing is though if I ever see him out on the street here in Ireland. I have a very nasty temper btw in where I could give him such a fierce roar, it would be so loud it will probably make him p**s in his own trousers in an instant.

What I should do for advice in these circumstances?

Have you ever took part in a private phone call of a similar situation where something potentially nasty would happen to you?

Someone using a private number to call managed to hack or clone my phone.

A guy read mass over the phone once. Prank calls etc. the usual.

Pumpkinseeds

I never answer a call that has a private number.

LizzieJones

Lou.m wrote: »

Someone using a private number to call managed to hack or clone my phone.

A guy read mass over the phone once. Prank calls etc. the usual.

There are people walking around out there unsupervised that shouldn't be.

bumper234

dublinman1990 wrote: »

At one evening around two months ago I was sitting just watching TV in my living room with my mum beside me minding my own business. Next thing my phone rings, I check to answer it and it comes up as a private phone call.

I said "hello" to this man who had a foreign accent. He says "Hello, Can I ask you something"? I said go on (Of course with advance caution).

He said, somewhere along the lines of this (since I have never spoken to this man before). Would you like to go out with me so we can have a good time?

And I said to him in reply "No". He asked "why?", I said, because I don't know you". He than goes and says : "Ooohhh, I going to do something real nasty to you". I said : WHAT????????? Sorry?????????. He says this sentence again with the word nasty in it for a second time.

I reply to him in turn and say "No........I don't want to do that Sorry" and I hung up straight away.

I asking myself what the hell was that for? I have no information to give to the Gardaí about this man or his number because it is untraceable because of the private number given to me. I didn't ask him for his name btw. I also didn't give him my name because of fear of invading my privacy. He didn't sound European. Probably Middle Eastern or Indian etc.

The thing is though if I ever see him out on the street here in Ireland. I have a very nasty temper btw in where I could give him such a fierce roar, it would be so loud it will probably make him p**s in his own trousers in an instant.

What I should do for advice in these circumstances?

Have you ever took part in a private phone call of a similar situation where something potentially nasty would happen to you?

LMAO

SpaceTime

I'd one random call from a guy (I'm a guy) being totally perverted down the phone at me.

Not wanting to give him any sense of me being shocked / horrified as that's what he obviously was into, I basically spent a good 2 mins laughing my head off at him down the phone.

Anyway, he rang back and got my voicemail, but due to a glitch in my voicemail system at the time it captured his withheld number. So, I rang his voicemail (which had his name on it).

After that, I rang him back and called him by his first and last name. He sounded like he was going to throw up and started shakily apologising over and over and telling me not to call the Gardai.

Fred Swanson

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SpaceTime

Basically, your number's never really private. The network is always aware of it.

When you make a call, your local exchange / mobile network sends your number to the exchange that you're calling.

If your number's withheld, the exchange also sends a 'flag' with the number that requests that the receiving exchange does not display the number, but it is still logged.

If (as in my case) the exchange (in this case a VoIP provider in the UK) hasn't configured something correctly, the number can be displayed even though it's withheld.

So, really your identity's not hidden, it's just an assumption that the exchange you're calling is going to respect the flag that's set by dialling 141 or blocking on your mobile.

So, the general rule is don't be a perv. down the phone at random strangers ... the phone network's not anonymous.

Sadly, that glitch's fixed

I Heart Internet

SpaceTime wrote: »

After that, I rang him back and called him by his first and last name. He sounded like he was going to throw up and started shakily apologising over and over and telling me not to call the Gardai.

So what did you do? Hand him over to the fuzz?

SpaceTime

I Heart Internet wrote: »

So what did you do? Hand him over to the fuzz?

Nah, I just let him sweat for a while

I assume he learnt his lesson. Poor guy sounded a tad freaked out when the phone rang back... Surprised he answered tbh.

SpaceTime

I think he was just random-dialling 08X numbers and being a perv to be honest. I certainly didn't recognise him anyway and he wasn't one of my mates or anything like that.

Tasden

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

I never answer a call that has a private number.

A lot of people don't. The mystery of it all kills me and I have to answer it :pac:

Missed calls from private numbers when they don't leave a voicemail are the worst, and people always say "if its important enough they'll call you again or leave a message", sometimes the person calling doesn't realise their number is on private so meanwhile they're assuming you'll call back when you see the missed call from them :mad:

RoboRat

get a good quality whistle, a really good loud one, if they ring again give it a good belt and they won't ring again as they probably can't hear in one ear :-)

Fred Swanson

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anncoates

Don't tend to answer them. If people really want to ring from a withheld number or one I don't recognize, they can leave a message.

Why would you engage in a phone call with the guy even saying "sorry"

Bafucin

Why would people who want to talk to you withhold a number anyway unless they have less than good intentions?

Could be ringing from bank, work, unlisted house phone and they don't want to enter the code every time, etc

westcoast66

I notice the banks use it a lot. Its like they are saying "We will ring you whenever we are trying to sell you something or do a survey but we dont want you ringing us wasting our time".

anncoates

It doesn't exactly massively inconvenience my life to ignore private calls.

The majority of them (that leave messages) are usually stuff that can wait or you' don't really want to answer like recruitment agencies.

My mother has an unlisted house phone but rarely calls from it, if ever.

dublinman1990

Bafucin wrote: »

Why would people who want to talk to you withhold a number anyway unless they have less than good intentions?

The number of possibilities could be endless. But here's a few of mine to know.

1. He could have made the call if he overheard it while I'm having a day to day conversation to someone else in Ireland. Scary I know.

2. He could have possibly rang me by mistake as he may have intended to ring someone else (possibly his girlfriend). He could be straight after all. You'll never know.

3. A phone network hacker might be his job.

4. He probably wants to act like a total gob***te and wants to humiliate me for fun.

5. The other possibility could be a mental illness.

That phone call is the only nuisance call that I have ever got on my sim card.