Make Your Own Prank Call
A prank phone call, also known as a crank call, can be a quite hilarious. If you want to have a good laugh there is nothing better than to make your own prank call to one of your friends (or even an enemy).
In order to make a prank call you will need your target’s phone number and must have access to a phone (duh!). The first step is always to make certain that the target can not discern your telephone number when you call. Before the days of caller ID this was a somewhat easy task. You just had to ring up the target’s number.
Today, you have to be a little more proactive in order to conceal your number. From telephones you can use the per call blocking feature by dialing *67 before the number. (To test *67 on your phone you can use it to dial 800/562-5588.) This has the advantage of blocking your name and number from the target’s caller ID.
However, the target’s caller ID will show either PRIVATE or INFO NOT SENT in this case. Because of this, your target’s suspicion might be raised that he could be the victim of a prank or nefarious call. Therefore, we prank call professionals use more sophisticated methods.
There are companies which, believe it or not, offer services just for this purpose. The best of these service providers is 123Spoof which allows you to use the actual number of any person or from any business and have THAT number appear on the caller ID of your target.
Yeah. Just read that sentence again and think of the possibilities!
For prank callers this service is nothing short of a revelation. If I want to call my buddy Joe from my phone and have the call show on Joe’s caller ID as from our mutual friend Tony, I can do it easily. And it works every time.
Even better, the good folks at 123Spoof have added a plethora of other features for use during prank calls. With their system you can completely disguise your voice (even changing sex from male to female) and you can record your entire conversation so you can play it again and again for extra laughs.
Clearly, if you have a sense of humor, you can see how this would be useful. You can literally amuse yourself for hours with these features. Playing pranks on friends, associates, businesses… Whatever your devious mind can dream up you will be able to achieve.
Ah, the miracle of technology.
REMEMBER: Prank calls are to be made in good jest only. Telephone calls which threaten or anyway break the law can be prosecuted.