really weird phone call

[livinginthesticks]

Hi, I live on my own with my DS and today got a phone call from a company called 'swingers uk' who said they were ringing to confirm a party booking, made in my name and from my phone number and from my address for some party involving S&M and anal. I got really freaked out by it and can't understand it at all. They said the call was made on a date about 2 weeks ago by phone at a time when I would either have just been back from work or my mum would have been here looking after my DS.

There is a man in my life who I've just had a big row with and I wondered if he could have done some nasty prank but they said it was 2 weeks ago that the 'booking' was made so unless he got them to say that it doesn't ring true.

I have looked back at my emails and web browsing on that date but again nothing and apparently it was by phone.

I don't know what to think?

1471?

Sounds like a major wind up.

You never met the daughter, so she knows nothing about you other than that you just dumped her dad. Seems to me she's feeling protective of him, and made the calls to "get back at you". It's a bit unprofessional to say "Valentines's Day" rather than Feb 14, as was pointed out earlier, but to a 15 year old girl it's an important date, not quite like Xmas Day, but sort-of. She also backed down after you said you'd call the police. I wonder whose number she would have given if you'd taken it?

I don't suppose she'll do it again.

seems really weird to ask his daughter to do that though. I am hoping that he wouldn't do that as it is such a horrible thing to do and obviously I liked him enough to sleep with him.

feel tempted to put something on facebook like;

'is confused when people get their teenage kids to do their dirty work for them...' or something similar

Did they actually quote your address at you?

Prank calls/heavy breathing calls/what colour knickers are you wearing calls seemed to happen much more in the past. Don't hear about it much these days, suppose it's down to not having phone books lying around like the old days.

I honestly don't think he had anything to do with it. He may have let off steam about your row/breakup to or in the company of his daughter (which is slightly inappropriate, but there you go), and then she has taken it upon herself to make these calls. It's about the only explanation that makes sense; him involving her is just too icky to go there.

I think it's a bit of a leap to assume it's his daughter.
There are lots of people with Scottish accents. We even have some in Ireland!

I have one myself. :) But I don't have OP's name, address, landline number. And I don't have a childish reason to wind her up.

The woman who made both calls probably just faked a Scottish accent in the first one so you would think it was two different people.

Seems really unlikely to be his daughter. You are not going to look good by making veiled references to it on Facebook, even if it was him. Let it go.

Plus you are unlikely to be able to salvage a friendship when you have said you don't fancy him after sleeping with him a number of times. You can't undo that.

Your only "evidence" that it had anything to do with the teenage daughter is the very tenuous connection that she might have a Scottish accent (you have never spoken to her to know this) and the caller had what you heard as a Scottish accent. The population of Scotland is 5.2 million. On the basis of this leap of assumption you're going to point the finger for a disgusting sex call prank at a child? And then you're going to escalate it by commenting on facebook? Even though you have no evidence whatsoever this prank call has anything to do with HIM let alone the child? And you're going to do this because you want to stay friends? Get a grip!

I agree it may well have nothing to do with her and with him - I am just guessing. the daughter couldn't have taken it upon herself to do it by the way because she wouldn't have known my number. Yes, the link is too tenuous (scottish accent) to assume that - but I do have suspicions about him because it was obviously a prank and I don't know anyone else who would do that.

Sorry, but christ alive, is this still going?

WHO CARES?!!! If it's this bloke, yet another reason to stay well clear of him.

FFS, ditch this bloke, it'll never happen, you don't need to be friends, and tbh, that'd never work after the way you treated him.

Defriend on FB, move on with your life, and all the best to you and yours.

You need a hobby I think.

Well how bloody rude can one person actually be?

We didn't force you to read the thread, LMHF.

Hope you are doing Ok, OP.

What a horrid prank. But forget it, move on.

living, if I go to the dry cleaners, I give them my phone no. If I make a restaurant booking, I give them my phone no. It doesn't have to be someone you know.

Speculating will only drive you nuts. You have told the police. Defriend this guy and move on.

OP it really isn't worth getting yourself any more upset about - unless something else happens, which might suggest that someone is set on harassing you. You will probably never know who instigated the windup, but if nothing else has happend now then it's unlikely that anything will and no harm will come to you.

Erm, actually, hasn't the OP gone?

Was it a man or woman's voice?

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I had forgotton all about this until today when I had two strange/unpleasant messages on my answering machine. The first was about a minute of heavy breathing, the second about a minute later was a voice sounding like a radio or recording of some sort but I couldn't hear what was being said and both from numbers withheld

Sounds horrible for you - although also sounds like calls you can get when someone dials mistakenly from mobile, wouldn't be withheld number then though. BT have a nuisance calls helpline and say you should note all calls for reporting to police.

www.bt.com/includingyou/calling-easier-unwanted-calls.html?s_cid=con_FURL_unwantedcalls#maliciousCalls

Do you have a name that begins with A or B, or W/Y/Z? I am asking this because if you are the person who is the first or last number in someone's mobile list, it will generally be you who gets 'arse-dialled' ie the phone owner has sat on his/her phone and it has dialled your number without the person noticing.
I appreciate that having had one wierd prank call in the past, you are hyper-aware to any phone-related funny business, but arse-dialling is incredibly common.

oh bugger! you need to call BT and get this line monitored.

keep the answerphone on and don't answer any calls. If they are malicious hopefully in time, if you don' rise to it, they might get bored, but get BT on to this straight away.

Did you stay finished with that bloke?