What is the most bizarre wrong number text or phone call you ever received?

[Elena_Stewart]

[GuyAnswersGirls123]

I had one long ago in the US where a man (maybe in his 30s or 40s) judging by his voice had the wrong number. It went something like this (I can't remember the exact names):

Me: Hello?
Man: Hey. Is Joe there?
Me: No, there's no one named Joe around here. I think you have the wrong number.
Man: Oh. Is the number [insert number]?
Me: Yep, that's my number.
Man: I was told Joe would be here.
Me: Well, there's no Joe by this number!
Man: ... [awkward pause] So you're saying Joe isn't there?
Me: Yep. No Joe here. Sorry, I'm pretty sure you got the wrong number.
Man: Damn. I was hoping to speak to Joe.
Me: Maybe you can ask the person who gave you Joe's number for the correct one?
Man: Yeah. Anyway, where are you from?
Me: I'm from Japan. My name is [insert my name].
Man: Wow cool. Do you eat raw fish?

Then we just kept talking on and on like that and I had to tell him I'm rather busy and have to go. Then he just said, "Okay, bye."

[Elena_Stewart]

Lol😁

[GuyAnswersGirls123]

Come to think of it, I haven't received a wrong number in many years now. It seems like the age of smartphones mitigated that. I do still get the occasional telemarketer but Japanese telemarketers are very easy to deal with and not at all pushy.

Most of the wrong numbers I received was in the early 2000s when mobile phones became very popular and affordable but weren't smartphones just yet.

[Elena_Stewart]

👍🏻

[Lionman95]

A scammer calling me that he hijacked the software of my tesla. It took some time to explain to him that I don´t have a tesla and he called the wrong person.

[Elena_Stewart]

Omg😁

[Lionman95]

To his defence one could bring in that I did some research on tesla and electric cars because there was a time where I thought about buying one. So he probably found my research history in some way. That´s why it took time to convince him that I don´t have a tesla.

[Elena_Stewart]

Make sense

[sheikalana]

I got a new number for work only approximately one year ago. Till this day I keep receiving phone calls and messages of random people wanting to talk to some guy. I guess this number used to belong to that guy.

[TiaNour]

I don’t remember the most bizarre one, but a recent one was this old man called me saying “where’s the nipples I ordered” and hung up right away. I thought I was high lol

[Elena_Stewart]

🤣🤣

[FunkyMonkee]

Well, it wasn't a wrong number but, I went to the phone to make a call and, when I picked it up there was no dial tone! I said, "Hello?", and the very person I was gonna call was on the other end!! They had just called me and I picked up the phone before it even rang!
Another time, I was trying to call a friend of mine to wish her a happy b-day. She was born on St. Patrick's Day, which is why she was named, Patty but, I didn't know her new phone number, so I called up directory assistance to ask for her number. I asked them for Patty Pisula in Oakland and they gave me a phone number that sounded like it didn't belong in the Oakland area but, I called it up and a girl answered so, I said, Happy b-day to her. She thanked me and asked who I was. After we chatted a moment, I found out this was NOT the Patty Pisula I was looking for, she was a Patty Pisula that lived in a town about 40 miles away that sounded like, Oakland. Then, I discovered that it actually WAS her b-day!! So, I knew two Patty Pisula's that were both born on St. Patrick's Day!!

[Elena_Stewart]

😳😳

[sawno]

They phoned me up for tech support (Which is my job), except they dialed the wrong department. It was the intensive care unit in the hospital and they had an issue with the computer with the patients data on it (At least I assume), the call kept being interrupted every 5 seconds since they were in the middle of the operation. It was a brand new customer so we didn't have the correct number ready for them, the patients heart occasionally skipped a beat.

That one definitely raised my own heartbeat a lot.

[Elena_Stewart]

This is actually intense😳

[sawno]

Not the most intense thing I expected, but definitely second place.

[sawno]

I experienced*

[NamerOfStars]

I once got a robocall from David Duke, just before the primary elections, telling me, quote "Don't vote for the Puerto Ricans!". Naturally, after wondering how they'd gotten my number, my reaction was to wonder who these Puerto Ricans were, so I could rush out and vote for them.

[Elena_Stewart]

Bad people the politicians

[NamerOfStars]

True- but worse people the racist fuckheads. Doubly so the murderous ones.

[Wallythewalrus2]

Just three days ago, a woman called me and wanted to know which house was mine, because she was there to pick up a puppy. Apparently, she put down a $200 deposit on a puppy and by chance, the person gave her my phone number. It was a scam.

[Elena_Stewart]

Wow😳😳

[matchrestore]

Someone with my phone number with the area code 281 instead of 218 has a habit of skipping bail. At lest once or twice a year for the past 10 years I've had calls looking for the guy. Despite being on the opposite end of the country from where the 281 area code is, some of these bail bondsmans refuse to believe me when I tell them they have the wrong number and that the correct number is an area code from their city!

[Anonymous]

I was talking to a girl in a chat room and we both wanted to have phone sex so we exchanged numbers. After a few calls and a few weeks go by, I get a call from this woman who says she's the girl's mother, and she's underage, and I got her pregnant and she wants money. Not even addressing the age part, I said "lady, presuming she's really your daughter and she's really pregnant, I've never even met her in person. I sure didn't freeze my sperm and mail it to her, so take your crazy self outa here! " LOL

[DJB72]

In South Africa they're recycling old phone numbers so I get some in any of 11 languages who are quite upset when I tell them I'm not who they're looking for.

It seems their response is to dial back louder...

[Elena_Stewart]

That’s annoying

[DJB72]

There's about 40million in the country and a ten figure phone number. For cellphones there's zero reason for recycling numbers yet. They don't have a signal over the whole country yet. I wish they'd fix that first!

[Somoneelse]

I didn't had much wrong person calls. Only once as far as I can remember. It was 6 years ago from an theater who kept calling me multiple times a day. But when you call back, they always claim to never had called me. And when you pickup its always a weird person claiming I work there or something.

[Bricealan]

"Hey, I saw your AD in the Classifieds, 'three African goats for sale' I don't have the money, but I got a lot of home made cheese! Maybe we could work somethin' out? "

[Elena_Stewart]

Was it a text or a voicmail😁😁

[Bricealan]

@Elena_Stewart... Elena, I have to level with you. This was one of the Calls that Jim Rockford (The Rockford Files) -reruns- got on HIS answering machine... I have seen every rerun of the Rockford Files, and I TAPED those phone calls because they were so funny! I thought this one was one of the best! I put it on my answering machine, (when I had one) when I worked at Fluor Engineering... and one day coming home, someone had called and got that humorous recording and he was VERY ENTERTAINED by it and left me a very complimentary message. He said the Rockford Files was one of his favorite TV programs, ... and he left me a message, saying..."Hey, Jimmy, this is ANGEL, can I borrow 20.00, I on a hot streak over at Hollywood Park (horse racing)
I was so glad that someone appreciated my sense of humor with that answering machine message.

[Elena_Stewart]

I've never seen the show. Very nice of the person who left you the voicemail😊

[Bricealan]

"Indeed" it was.

[D_Bone_Steak]

Kyane West once sent me a text...

I still don't know what he means by it

[Nikki1989]

I don't text and I don't give my number out to ANYONE, so I don't have that problem.

[Alwayreckles93]

My sister give out my numberto her Jehova witness people.

[laly520]

a phone call from a person who was blamed for starting fire in neighborhood

[Booklover_90]

Any spam call or text.

[Anonymous]

i get them now and then but don't answer them

[PrettyCrumblBb]

Some black lady calling for Dayshaun