At some point over the weekend, or Monday somebody decided to try and annoy us.

I am guessing this “Prankster” must have had a spam phone call, and decided to google the number, finding the company name of where I work. We are a Telecommunications provider and sell phone lines and numbers. Apparently people do not understand that the company that sold the number is not the one who made the phone call. I guess people are dumb!

Well, this annoyed person decided that if they got a spam call, then we could have one as well. They then spent what must have been hours filling in every “call back” form they could find online, asking for a phone call about health and safety training, lead acquisition, training, hiring work experience people, etc. Using our Phone number and email address.

Which means we have had dozens of calendar requests, and people phoning us back to discuss what we require. They are getting very apologetic when we explain its a false request.

I do not think it has worked out like the “Prankster” wanted, all they have done is upset all the people calling, and us? We do not care, it beats working. Also, since all the online forms which were emailed to us contained the “Pranksters” IP address, then they must be expecting this to escalate into a “Prank War!”

And if there is one thing you never want to do, is to start a Prank War with a bunch of SysAdmin.