Are Terrorists Using My Mother’s Cell Phone To Call Home?

My mother was telling me the other day about a weird set of events that occurred one night while she was on-call for Red Cross. In the middle of the night, the Red Cross cell phone rang and she got up to answer it, but no one was there. She checked the number but it was all 9’s across the screen. She went back to bed and went to sleep.
Several hours later, the same thing occurred.

Well, the next morning, she got to thinking about it and she thought she remembered hearing about some scam where people can call your phone and when you answer they can dial all nines and use that to make long distance phone calls. So, dutifully, she called the cell phone company to aske them about the calls and report what had happened. The cell phone company said they’d never heard of such a scam nor did they show any record of the calls my mother had received that night.

So, I commented that maybe some terrorist had used her cell phone to call Iran to get his orders. I was joking of course. I don’t actually believe that.

My mother however accused, “You and your father and your conspiracy theories!”

My reply was, “What? You don’t think it’s possible?”

“No.”

“Why do you think your President is recording all of your calls, Mother?”

“Because he’s stupid.”

I had to laugh. “Mom, you should be careful. After the terrorist used your phone last night, he’s probably listening in right now. He won’t like being called ’stupid’.”

tags: Terrorists, phone scams, Red Cross, Conspiracy Theories

2 comments

1. on June 13, 2006 at 12:02 pm

   Tamara said:

   Hee!

2. on June 13, 2006 at 12:17 pm

   Dani said:

   That’s funny!!!
   I’ve had that on my cell caller id before, but I’ve never answered it…if you find out its terrorists let me know!

   I did see a report on hackers/terrorists/etc. accessing open bluetooth connections on cells. They can look up all personal info on the account, use the phone number to make calls, even program the phone to call another phone, then allowing the listener to have an open mic to anything taking place around the victim…

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