This is a service that you can have call your phone number to find out either where your cell phone is or just to make sure your phone is working correctly - it called wheres my cell phone if you Google it. anyone can go online and plug your phone number into it to make it ring so you may have someone doing this to you. go to wheresmycellphone.com
I received a call from this number. I didn't recognize the number so I didn't answer. This forum solved it for me.
Glad to see this is a legitimate service but it still worries me. I received a "good morning" text from a family member to which I responded in kind. About 1 minute later my phone was called by this number.
I did not receive a follow-up text from my family member and she has not responded to any other texts I sent. This is unusual.
I am now worried her phone may have been lost or stolen, or even worse, a thief was in her house and used the service to see if my phone was also in the house (we have the same last name). This is no bad reflection upon the service but just an indication of a possible nefarious use of such a service.
Although my concerns are real I am more concerned by the number of people who have an expectation of a system, or governmental, solution to the issue of receiving this call. Freedom and technology provide many gifts but there will always be those who will exploit them for illegitimate gain. It's one of the costs of that freedom and advancing technology. As so aptly stated by Benjamin Franklin "Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." Look first to yourself, and your community (such as this forum), to solve your problems before asking for institutional relief.
This may just be a coincidence and the unintended consequences folly, but the anxiety caused by the incident is nonetheless real.
I am thankful forums like this, and technology, are available to help us work together to solve these issues rather than relying on some authority to do it for us.
lol, that is a service on the internet called "wheres my cell phone" if you google that you can got to the site and enter your phone number and it will call you. Someone could have put your number in and clicked "make it ring" by mistake or a joke. If it is a joke i am laughing harder than the person who did it I am sure!! Such a huge reaction!!!!