'Give out my phone number and I’ll give out yours': Guy getting continuous spam calls for another person takes hilarious action and gets the last laugh

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Elna McHilderson • Managing Editor
Oct 7, 2023 7:00 PM EDT

It's 2023 and spam calls are the new "ding dong ditch." It's a constant barrage of callers trying to "getcha" for x,y, or, z. It's gotten to the point that most people don't even answer unknown callers, especially if they're not expecting a call from anyone. The "Do Not Call" (DNC) list only prevents people from requesting your number, but if people already have it, then the calls are going to keep coming whether you're on the DNC or not. 

One guy tried everything to stop getting the constant harassment of spam callers. However, it wasn't just any ole annoying case of spam calls. It was more like a "wrong number" spam call. A double whammy. They kept asking for some guy he calls "D." So, he decided to do his own detective work and find out who this D is. After he found him online, he reached out to him and told him that his number must have gotten mixed up because he keeps getting calls for him. 

"D" responded like he couldn't be bothered with this and that it was all his fault and he was giving out the wrong number on purpose, etc. etc. So, OP did what he thought was best, he started giving out "D"'s real number to all of these spammers. Seemed to work like a charm, because he never got another calls for "D" again. 

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    Font - Posted by u/phillypharm 19 hours ago Give out my phone number and I'll give out yours
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    Font - I got a new phone number in 2019 and no issues for a year. In 2020 I started getting calls for healthcare insurance. I'd get texts and calls frequently for Medicare coverage and such. I'm not Medicare age and work so I have insurance.
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    Font - I kept asking them to update their info and remove my number. I tried putting my number on the do not disturb list and all the other lists but the calls kept coming. This continued for over 2 years and picked up whenever enrollment periods would open up.
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    Font - Edit: when you want to get insurance quotes, you enter in a phone number. This person kept putting in my number to get the quote, but avoid the spam calls. (Source: work in healthcare)
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    Font - Eventually the callers would ask for someone by their first name, we'll say they were looking for "D". I'd ask for the last name but wouldn't get it due to privacy reasons. After more junk and the calls not stopping, the next time I got a call I pretended I didn't hear. "Who are you looking for?
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    Font - B? C? Oooh D. We have a D 'Smith' here. Are you looking for D Smith?" A few callers finally told me who they were looking for so I had the full name. Same name every time.
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    Font - I googled my phone number and this person's name and found on this person's company website. Phone number the same but the last digit was a 4 instead of a 5. I created a temp number and texted this person asking "Is this D Brown? I
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    Font - keep getting calls and texts to my number for you if so. I think they have your number wrong". They wrote back "None of your f-ing business who this is!"
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    Font - Ok fine. I figured it was them. As I kept getting calls, instead of saying "wrong number”, I started giving out the D's number. "Oh, you want D Brown?
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    Font - This isn't the right number, I think the number is the same but ends in 4." I did this for the next 5-10 callers. Fast forward two years and I haven't had calls for D since then.
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    Font - Soulshiner402. 4 hr. ago Scientology was our go to when someone fed with you. They are ruthless and don't let go.
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    Font - Zoreb1 17 hr. ago He would also be getting call from Scientology, the Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormans, the Knights of the Blazing Sw ka and any other group I could think of.
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    Font - anmonty83 17 hr. ago ● Never thought of this. I have been calls for a certain person for years. I googled them and found a current number. Time for my own revenge. Thank you
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    Font - Snidely_Whiplasher. 15 hr. ago Spam calls: the "ding- dong ditch" of the 21st century.
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    Font - rykylynlan- 13 hr. ago When I was younger my number was similar to a plumbing company so we would get calls every so often for this place. Our number was 5602 and the plumbing place was 6502.
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    Font - If the people who called were polite when I would say they had the wrong number I would give them the correct number, if they were ride saying they dialed the correct number I would say wrong number again and hang up.
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    Font - Wise_Tie_9050 - 12 hr. ago We had a phone number that was different by one digit from "Northern Community Hospital", and we kept getting calls for them.
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    Font - Eventually we just used to answer the phone with "Hello, Northern Community Hospital", and then offer to put the person through to whomever they were calling, and then hang up.
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    Font - They almost always never called right back, so must have hit the right keys the second time around. This was back in the pre- mobile-phone days though...
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    Font - phillypharm OP 12 hr. ago Yeah unfortunately that doesn't work if someone puts your number in a form requesting quotes. The DNC means they can't call you if not requested, which this person was doing with my number.
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