“Delivery Check” phone calls
Iris S (SC, Zone 7b)
4 years ago
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Iris S (SC, Zone 7b)
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Creepy Phone Call to DD
Comments (45)Please - all you Mamma Bears (said with great respect - I'm a mom too) take a deep breath, stand back, and calm down. I have no doubt that that phone call was upsetting and frightening. Your daughter was smart to call you, and I think you were smart to investigate and also for Dad to call back and make himself abundantly clear. If the caller had bad intentions, he now knows that your daughter has a pissed-off no-nonsense male for protection. That can't hurt. But please do consider that the caller may not have had bad intentions. As you noted Bethpen, your daughter was kind to several young men with poor social skills, any one of whom might have made that call without understanding at all how it might have seemed to her... He may genuinely have considered her a friend, and have wanted to reestablish contact and see how her new job was going, and had no idea how creepy it would have seemed. But your daughter's creeped-out reaction may have alerted him to the fact that the phone call wasn't going well, so he declined to give his name for that reason - not thinking how that would make it all even worse... This type of action and lack of insight would be very typical of a young man with autism. This call was a single action, not a series, that was perceived as creepy because it did not conform to social norms. There was nothing threatening in what was said, but the social inappropriateness (that's the nature of the autism disability) created a perceived problem. A mountain out of what could truly be a molehill. At this point there has been one phone call with a message that was inappropriate and yes, creepy, but not actually threatening. Please try and keep that in perspective, and carefully consider the option that it may not have been meant to provoke fear. That said, I do agree with the suggestions to inform HR where your daughter works, and to ask for specific training about how to handle threatening calls. Given the nature of her work, that can only be of benefit. This post was edited by sweeby on Sun, Aug 10, 14 at 14:24...See MoreMy Phone Call Yesterday
Comments (3)I think you can use *69 on your phone right after a call like that and it will tell you where the call came from also if you have the numbr do a google on it and it will come up as an often used number for scams most likely...See MoreStrange Phone Call
Comments (10)I had a call like that 2 wks ago. They told me they were from Microsoft Tech Dept & that the department had been getting a lot of error signals from my computer. They were very pushy, kept telling me that it was ok to do this. I told them I wasn't born yesterday & they could go bug somebody else. They called back about 20 minutes later, even more insistent. That time I told them they could deal with my son when he got home from work, he's MY computer tech. They called the next day and at that point, I told them I had contacted the local police as well as the Internet Crimes Regulators, they hung up this time...really really fast....See MoreMy home phone called me???
Comments (7)Saltidawg-- No, I dumped that flip phone. Flip phone was not mentioned in the post. Guess my post was not clear to some. . Nothing to do with cell phone. My house phone which is hard wired called me on this same phone. Caller i.d. showed caller as mom(me) and the phone #(my house phone #) Was wondering just how that works and sushipup1 offered a reasonable explanation....See MoreOlychick
4 years ago
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