So I've had a legacy T-Mobile prepaid number since probably 2007. It's one of those where you put $10 on it and it's good for a year (assuming you don't use up the minutes you've bought with that $10.) They don't sell this type of plan anymore, so I just put $10 on it in January and it's good for another year. It all rolls over, and I use the number for testing out cellular devices that I sometimes get. It stays in a cheap Nokia VoLTE phone at other times.
The reason I have this number is when I dumped Verizon in 2007 I wasn't sure I wanted to go back to a plan, but with data coming online I went ahead and did so maybe 3 months after purchasing the pre-paid. Never used it much.
About a year ago, the "we'll buy your house" spammers started calling and asking for me by name. At first, it was just a few, then more, then every day there'd be a load of messages and texts from various numbers all asking for me by name and wanting to buy a house from me. Most would hang up if you tried to play with them, only once did I get someone that didn't, she sounded on-shore. I answered the call as a machine shop business, and then laid into her about how she kept interrupting me and I couldn't service my customers in these trying times because people like her kept interrupting me and asking for people that don't work here. I think she got flustered because she kept apologizing for calling the wrong number and you could tell there was some unhappiness on the other end, like "I'm ready to cry" unhappy.
I really don't know how they connected me with this number, because I have another legacy number of the same type that sits in a cellular responder that sends out temperature and power failure messages, and it doesn't get these kind of calls. I don't ever remember using this number in the few months it was my primary, I simply don't call people and they don't call me.
Kind of sad, but I had to change the number. Gave up a cool palindrome number for one I chose in a very rural part of another state where there isn't ANY demand for houses. That was a few weeks ago, and there's been no calls since.
I feel bad for the person that gets that number. They're going to be getting constant calls and texts about buying a house.
So I've had a legacy T-Mobile prepaid number since probably 2007. It's one of those where you put $10 on it and it's good for a year (assuming you don't use up the minutes you've bought with that $10.) They don't sell this type of plan anymore, so I just put $10 on it in January and it's good for another year. It all rolls over, and I use the number for testing out cellular devices that I sometimes get. It stays in a cheap Nokia VoLTE phone at other times.
The reason I have this number is when I dumped Verizon in 2007 I wasn't sure I wanted to go back to a plan, but with data coming online I went ahead and did so maybe 3 months after purchasing the pre-paid. Never used it much.
About a year ago, the "we'll buy your house" spammers started calling and asking for me by name. At first, it was just a few, then more, then every day there'd be a load of messages and texts from various numbers all asking for me by name and wanting to buy a house from me. Most would hang up if you tried to play with them, only once did I get someone that didn't, she sounded on-shore. I answered the call as a machine shop business, and then laid into her about how she kept interrupting me and I couldn't service my customers in these trying times because people like her kept interrupting me and asking for people that don't work here. I think she got flustered because she kept apologizing for calling the wrong number and you could tell there was some unhappiness on the other end, like "I'm ready to cry" unhappy.
I really don't know how they connected me with this number, because I have another legacy number of the same type that sits in a cellular responder that sends out temperature and power failure messages, and it doesn't get these kind of calls. I don't ever remember using this number in the few months it was my primary, I simply don't call people and they don't call me.
Kind of sad, but I had to change the number. Gave up a cool palindrome number for one I chose in a very rural part of another state where there isn't ANY demand for houses. That was a few weeks ago, and there's been no calls since.
I feel bad for the person that gets that number. They're going to be getting constant calls and texts about buying a house.
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