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Re:What's the deal with all those weird wrong-number texts? by AgentME on Saturday July 02, 2022 @01:25AM (#31956514)
Somehow when I was in high school, my ex girlfriend's cellphone number became linked to my cellphone number so that if someone called me while I was already in a call, the new call would be redirected to her. It caused some awkward situations. I have no idea how it happened. I had once set her number as a speed-dial on my phone and also set it as a Verizon "friends & family" number so I could call her for free, so I assume somehow there was a glitch with one of these features. She was a mutual friend with a lot of my friends so people just assumed they had called her by accident, but years later I finally realized something was up when a new friend who didn't know my ex got redirected to her. I googled a lot and found out there was some phone star code you could dial to set or unset a number to be used as a backup number, I finally understood that was the association that must have been set, and I was able to clear the association. I wondered a lot if I had accidentally used the star code in the past to set up the association but I can't imagine having done it by accident, and I didn't know about the feature before.
Re:What's the deal with all those weird wrong-number texts? by aaaaaaaaata on Saturday July 02, 2022 @07:56AM (#31958286)
Consider that she did it?

Seems an odd coincidence for it to be fwd to her number of all people.

Re:What's the deal with all those weird wrong-number texts? by SapporoChris on Saturday July 02, 2022 @09:27AM (#31958799)
Agreed, Call forwarding on busy or no answer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_forwarding Looks easy to set up and could easily be missed on the phone bill.
Re:What's the deal with all those weird wrong-number texts? by AgentME on Saturday July 02, 2022 @10:38PM (#31964562)
Nah, she was confused by the situation and I've always been the sort to keep my phone locked and to myself. She never had my phone unlocked.