Someone prank called me

ronzo

Just awhile ago I got a prank call (they "punk'd me, except it wasn't funny). The number on my mobiles caller id is listed as a delmar, MD number by multiple free trackers on the internet.

I know some people in maryland, and this could just be my cousins friends being assholes (people i don't know, guess this is what i get for putting my number on facebook), but the tracers all say it was a landline making the call.

Is there any way to easily spoof a random number, ie the number that showed up on my caller id wasn't the number they were actually calling from?

TehSpectre

Eh, why does it matter?

Unless you plan on pranking them back, which is pretty stupid unless you are in middle school, I don't see the point.

Also, people who prank call will come up as "unavailable" when calling. If you got a number, it's probably the one they called from.

Farout Foolio

Just let it go.

supabeast

Is there any way to easily spoof a random number, ie the number that showed up on my caller id wasn't the number they were actually calling from?

Yes. Caller ID spoofing is pretty common. Like the others said, just forget it.

NotYou

or you know, they didn't use their personal phone to call you...

ronzo

yeah i guess i'll just drop it

this just wasn't one of the funny ones

this wasn't someone i knew by their voice, and it was a "I'm going to say I'm with your local police department, am going to sound dead fucking serious, and scare the shit out of you." In hindsight there are some holes in their setup up but i was too tired to notice them.

thanks for all the replies

FyreWulff

Yeah, if the police want to talk with you they'll come to your door.

And callerid spoofing is stupid easy. I had a real bad rash of prank callers about a year and a half ago that would set their number to 000-0000. I think that was while Skype had free outgoing calls.

musanman

http://www.dumpalink.com/videos/Comedy-When-Keeping-it-Real-goes-Wrong-bcb2.html

The Cat

isn't it usually some radio station amusing their viewers? but yeah, stop caring either way. You got 'got', but what they did was designed to 'get' anyone they rang, so its really not the blow to your ego that you seem to think.

JustinSane07

musanman wrote: »

http://www.dumpalink.com/videos/Comedy-When-Keeping-it-Real-goes-Wrong-bcb2.html

I was just coming to post this.

http://www.comedycentral.com/videos/index.jhtml?videoId=24435&title=keeping-it-real-vernon-franklin

Here's the other one.

ronzo

thanks for all the replies. Normally I would just shrug the whole thing off, but this women knew my name, phone number and roughly where i live. After a few other things happened today, this seems to be something tied into some other friends of mine that i somehow got involved in.

either way, this can be locked and buried

Improvolone

On this topic, is it possible to make a specific number (not the one calling) show on the ID?