Re:What's the deal with all those weird wrong-number texts?
by AgentME on Saturday July 02, 2022 @01:25AM
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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.
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Re:What's the deal with all those weird wrong-number texts?
by aaaaaaaaata on Saturday July 02, 2022 @07:56AM
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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
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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.