[UA] A strange occurance

[Wirén Mattias]

Seems to me that there is some kind of intelligence behind all this...
Who or what is lurking in our phonelines. The Comte? ;-)

/RagTag

>-----Original Message-----
>From: David M Jacobs [mailto:dmjacobs at zipworld.com.au]
>Sent: den 19 mars 2002 07:43
>To: ua at lists.uchicago.edu
>Subject: Re: [UA] A strange occurance
>
>
>At 12:46 PM 19/03/02 +1000, Doug Stalker wrote:
>
>>I ring up to check the message, and it's a recording of our 
>conversation
>>from the moment we had picked up my friend.
>>
>>I have no idea how this happened - my phone hadn't dialed voicemail by
>>accident (keypad locked and nothing in dialled calls) and 
>no-one elses phone
>>showed any outgoing calls.
>
>I've had a similar experience, but with "hold" music.  I'll 
>get an SMS to 
>call voicemail, and the message will be five minutes of "hold" 
>music.  It'd 
>be merely annoying, save for the fact that I get charged by time.
>
>Also, my old mobile (a Nokia 5110) had a habit of dialling people by 
>itself, even when keylock was on.  I'd be out with some friends, then 
>notice that my phone had tried to call 112 several times, and 
>a couple of 
>people on my call list at random.
>
>My aunt's phone does a similar thing; I keep getting 
>calls/voicemails from 
>her when she's away from the phone, usually whilst she's 
>playing with her 
>granddaughter.  When I've rung her back to check, neither her nor her 
>granddaughter have been near her purse during the initial call.
>
>On top of that, I occasionally get SMSes to call voicemail, only to 
>discover that the messages have been delayed by up to two 
>weeks; when I've 
>checked for messages during the interim, they simply haven't 
>been there.
>
>I also sometimes get an SMS to check voicemail, get the 
>message, delete it, 
>fine.  Then, a couple of minutes later, I'll receive another 
>SMS to check 
>voicemail.  Sure enough, I ring voicemail up, but no messages. 
> Then, I'll 
>get _another_ SMS, so I ring voicemail.  No message.  I hang 
>up and receive 
>yet another message to ring voicemail.  Repeat 8 or 10 times.
>
>There's some freakyarse shit going down at Telstra, let me tell you.
>
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