I’ve recently been getting a lot of people calling me on my cell phone who spoof their numbers.  In the fall, I had some Christian Video organization prank calling me 3 times a day for weeks.  No one answered when I picked up the phone, so there was no way to complain, the only way I found out what was going on was by Googling the number.

My most recent problem has been an auto warranty company informing me multiple times that “this call is my 2nd warning” that I need to renew my warranty.  I’m not sure how they can give me more than one second warning, and I’m not sure what car they are referring to as I ride my bike and public transportation.  Regardless, I hang up on the automated message, and I Googled the number.   Turns out this “company” is actually a scam, and they are spoofing multiple numbers that actually belong to some innocent, ignorant people living in Arizona, Arkansas, and who knows where else!  There was a comprehensive list of numbers they were using, and a poster on one of the numbers suggested searching the address on Google Maps, so I did.

This is what I found:

I hope he doesn't mow his lawn like that...

......

Someone actually dug huge trenches in their lawn so that flying planes and satellites would see those words.  I hope he doesn’t think we’re actually stupid enough to believe those words are NATURAL, some miraculous phenomenon put it there, and have some sort of crazy conversion or soul-seeking session.

We’re far more likely to think he is just a fanatic moron that just wasted a lot of time and energy.

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9 Responses to “A Little Dose of Weird”
  1. LeaT says:

    I think I agree with db0… someone certainly got too much time on their hands :)

  2. Anath says:

    Oh I see where I made the mistake. My spoofed number was from Arizona, so I didn't look past the A in AR, and assumed they were all from there, since they had the same (or really close to the same) area code in the number. Sorry about that, I'll fix it in the actual article : P

  3. Waldheri says:

    Do you happen to know the name of this <s>quack</s> faith healer?

  4. Waldheri says:

    Do you happen to know the name of this quack faith healer?

  5. db0 says:

    Jeebus! Some have indeed just too much time on their hands…

  6. TheEdgecrusher says:

    wow, I feel reborn already…
    no wait, that was just my stomach. oh well…

  7. Shanghai_or_Bust says:

    hey, i hate to be the correcting arsehole but it's my state so i feel i must. this google earth image is wynne, arkansas. here's the great thing that makes me relevant for a minute. i work with a girl from wynne who swears her friend had HIV but she's all better now thanks to a faith-healer. HALE-FREAKING-LUJAH!

  8. Lenard Rocks says:

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  9. Jim Warranty says:

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