I've name changed as have already talked to friends about this but was interested in what the Mumsnetters think.
Bit of a long one, vaguely complicated so I've stuck in loads of paragraphs but it did happen & Im not a troll/bot.
A few weeks ago, I got a couple of bizarre text messages asking if I was available & a slightly dirty phone call in the middle of the night. I blocked the number straightaway & thought nothing more of it - wrong number perhaps.
As soon as I'd blocked the number, the texts & call history disappeared from my phone.
Last night I'd booked a cab from my local cab company to collect me from the station. It's a cab company that I have used for years & my mother & her friends used it frequently. We've never had any problems with them.
Normally when a cab arrives, the driver does something techy & you get called by the cab company & upon answering the line goes dead but you know your driver is waiting.
My phone didn't ring & I nipped into the express supermarket to get somethings. When I came out, I still hadn't heard anything so I called the office & they told me he had arrived & was going to call me from his mobile.
My phone didn't ring. It was only when he got out of the car that I realised he was my cab. He couldn't understand why I hadn't been receiving his calls as my phone was ringing when he called the number.
He dropped me home, it was late, I was tired, I just thought it was a sort of technical glitch.
Have just been thinking about this. My phone was working fine - my Dad had called me about 30mins before to discuss the rugby.
If I'd blocked a number, it wouldn't come through would it but the caller would think my phone was ringing. That's how it works, isn't it?
Sadly my blocked contacts list doesn't give a date/time of blocking. I'm assuming the list is in date order however so the number would be quite near the top.
I called the cab company & said there'd been a technical glitch with yesterday's communication so could I have the last 3 digits of the driver's mobile number.
The office were quite rightly about doubtful about this - maybe it was breaking some GDPR rules - and were asking why I needed the number.
Anyway, they finally gave me a number that was 1 digit out of one of the blocked numbers eg 346 instead of 345.
The phone number was quite high on the list - no 4 or 5 - so I'm assuming it was fairly recent.
I've spoken to a friend who now has the number. He's going to call it in a week or so asking if he can get a cab & we'll take it from there.
I'm just a little freaked out.
I did unblock the number thinking that maybe missed calls/text might appear so now the number is unblocked on my phone & I can't work out how to block the bloody number again...
I don't know who I was talking to on the main office number - it might've even been him!
I've got a Ring doorbell & my house is secure so I'm not worried from that point of view but it all seems weird.
This is the first time anything strange has happened that could possibly be linked to the cab company. I'm not sure I'd recognise the man again - it's a large firm & they have a lot of drivers. They all have valid licences on display in their cabs.
We have a plan of action & a way forward which I'm happy about.
I'm just interested in what the collective MN minds & guts make of this.