Hey folks,
I've been upset over the last 2-3 days about something and I'd prefer not to talk about it here. I've been sleeping a little more just to get my mind off all the bullshit and try and bounce back as soon as possible.
Yesterday evening was a little tight because I had to run all around T Nagar to get some N things done. I came back home around 8 30 PM, tired and exhausted (the T-Nagar Effect). Was watching Jeff Dunham on Youtube to kill some time and get back to normal mood. Meanwhile, Michael Jackson Mandayan gave me an entire Monty Python playlist and off-pannified me!
My phone was lying around on my cabinet. It's usually in silent mode all the time. No, not because my girlfriend calls me all the time but because I'm kinda allergic to ringtones. Around 12 AM, I remembered there was an ebook lying around on my hard drive that I had to put into my phone, so that I could read it in the vetti time over the next one week. And, No. It's not Ungal Manaiviyai Magizhvippadhu Yeppadi! (Translated: How to satisfy your wife).
I located the ebook on my HDD and went to get my phone. "'5 missed calls' and '3 messages'", the phone glared at me. Most of them were people I knew. Except one. And, it was no normal number. It wasn't one of those local tele-callers. It wasn't from Vodafone's customer care. It wasn't from Odyssey360.com! Hell, it wasn't even from this country!
The number read "+263913792901". From my limited knowledge of overseas calling, I could understand it wasn't from someone in the US. And, I know less than 5 people living abroad, but not in the US. So, who could this be?!
Google, my trusted toolkit for life, came to the rescue. Within about 10 mins of Googling, I found that the number was from Zimbabwe. +263 being the country code for Zimbabwe. Next step was to find the Area Code. I managed to locate that as well. On Wikipedia this time, though.
So, someone from Bulawayo, Zimbabwe called me around 11 30 PM IST, March 20th 2010. Please hand yourself in, whoever it is. If I find you, it is bound to get ugly! 
Now, I just hope it wasn't my great great great grandfather's lawyer who'd called to tell me about the £400 Million property I would inherit if I sent in the mandatory charges of $419! 
Why the post title? If I had told Vinay this story in person, I'm sure this would be the dialog he'd use as a reply to it!
Yours Skeptically,
uleadin
P.S. I am now officially pissed off. Will get un-pissed off by tonight, though.
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Interesting you mention that #…coz I got a missed call aswell from the same # two days back…and a few times since then my cell has been proactively calling up that number by itself!
Believe it or not today (Mar 22, 2010) at 5:00 AM IST I got the missed call from this number. Looks like this trap.
@Nitin: Whoa! Thankfully mine hasn’t been calling that number, yet!
@Baskar: A lot of my sister’s friends have been getting calls from this number over the last one week! Definitely a trap!
Me got a missed call from same number
on 22 March 2010 around 5:20. Me jus google this number and got ur blog…. yaam petra inbam peruha ivvaiyaham 
me as well, got the call at 11:16, same zimbabwe it is, and its the same number. I google for the same and landed in your blog. Thanks for the information.
@Ansari, Ravi: Nobody I know has picked the call till now. Maybe it was a deliberate missed call. Don’t know as of now.
hi friends i too got missed call from tat no. on 23 march at 18:03(IST).
Hi I got the missed call from the same number today at 5.20AM. I want to know, are you guys holding vodafone numbers???? mine is vodafone…
I guess some mess thing done by vodafone people by itself to increase UR ISD bills… i tried calling back that number after seeinmg the missed call, my call was been picked in no time but no one responded from other side.. so definitely its to increases ur ISD bills .. plz be careful !
Hi all, I too get a missed call from the same number “+263913792901″ on 25th March @ 3.00PM (IST) and when googling landed in this page,I hope this might be a Cheating call and let us inform our friends and well knowns to be aware.
Hi friends, i too got missed call from the same number 26 march at 6:51 pm. when i searched in google it landed in this page.
i got a call from this number on 27 march 2010 at 9:03 am this morning…………wat the hell is this?????????
i guess its some kind of trap as the lottery fraud
I GOT A CALL TOO!! 27TH MARCH 10:40 P.M ! WHAT IS THIS!!
im frm chennai…hey i also got a call frm number “+263913792901″ tis morning 8:50 A.M,30th March…who the hell is tat…
yeah, I too got missed call from that number +263913792901. mine is Vodafone IN
i too got a call, i picked up and a sexy lady on the other side told me she’s a widow and wanted to send me all her husband’s money before coming over to live with me!
I thought I was lucky, but that bitch’s been trying out everyone!
You could always have called that number back to find out who it was [:P]
I also got a missed call from this number yday viz 11 Apr 10 4:00am. What is this??
This is very weird! I got a call from this number yesterday at
20:23 pm. Spook call? Some trap? All are Vodafone customers though.