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[PlayALLtheGames]

This is fucking weird. I've had my number since, like, 2009.

Last summer I got a call for someone named Sergei. I let them know I wasn't Sergei.

Since then, I have received calls from people asking for him at least once a month. I guess he's looking for a job right now because in the past couple of months, there are calls every week.

I just spoke with a recruiter who talked to him a few days ago. He says my number is the one he gave out.

He seems like a normal dude who lives in my area (DC) and works in I.T. Coincidentally, I'm also Russian and work in I.T., but unless I'm experiencing severe amnesia, I'm not Sergei and don't know shit about developing in .net

I know it's not possible for people to have the same number, so what the hell is going on?

Should I challenge him to a duel? Since we're Russians, that just means taking shots of vodka until someone pukes or passes out.

 

[Lactose_Intolerant]

Split personality

 

[ZealousD]

Split personality

Yeah you have any gaps in your memory, OP?

 

[jond76]

Have you seen Enemy? Watch that and it may explain some things.

 

[Rivitur]

So tell me Sergei what did you do with the real OP?


Worst thing I get is a maid service calling me every week and hanging up without saying anything.

 

[backflip10019]

There might be a carbon monoxide leak in your house.

 

[LyleLanley]

I get this every now and then but what happens far more frequently is people using my email address which is just firstname.lastname@gmail.com.

 

[Memento Mori]

This is fucking weird. I've had my number since, like, 2009.

Last summer I got a call for someone named Sergei. I let them know I wasn't Sergei.

Since then, I have received calls from people asking for him at least once a month. I guess he's looking for a job right now because in the past couple of months, there are calls every week.

I just spoke with a recruiter who talked to him a few days ago. He says my number is the one he gave out.

He seems like a normal dude who lives in my area (DC) and works in I.T. Coincidentally, I'm also Russian and work in I.T., but unless I'm experiencing severe amnesia, I'm not Sergei and don't know shit about developing in .net

I know it's not possible for people to have the same number, so what the hell is going on?

Should I challenge him to a duel? Since we're Russians, that just means taking shots of vodka until someone pukes or passes out.

He may have mistyped his CV. I did the same thing with my email address.

 

[mcarlie]

Me, myself and Sergei

 

[Skeyser]

maybe he's dyslexic and keep messing up when he gives his number

 

[Chao]

I can relate, it's the worst.

Some dude overseas is always giving my email address, I get mails telling me to go pick up my car, lottery bills, important emails about his job and last week even pics of his girlfriend's ugly pussy.

Try to block it somehow if it brothers you, mine is a pain in the ass and always finds a way to send new shit

 

[Zomba13]

I've had this happen to me. For the longest time I was getting calls and advertisement text messages from multiple places about things like car insurance asking for a "Brogan".

 

[dluu13]

Several years ago, I kept getting phone calls from an auto body shop and the insurance company that were meant for somebody else but saying that their car repair was completed. This went on for a few weeks. I should have gone down there to grab a free car.

 

[NoblesseOblige]

OP, when you lay your head down for sleep that's when Sergei wakes up.

 

[Sorian]

I've had this happen to me. For the longest time I was getting calls and advertisement text messages from multiple places about things like car insurance asking for a "Brogan".

Is that Broseph's little brother?

 

[davepoobond]

2 Russian IT guys with a similar phone number?


I don't believe in coincidences.


Happens occasionally for me too but I think mostly scammers just call me now.

 

[UnemployedVillain]

Ask the people who call where they got the number for (maybe the person's name). Find him on FB/LinkedIn/Google+ and tell him to stop screwing up when telling people his number

 

[teiresias]

I get this with my email sometimes which is apparently only one letter different from the email of some woman who lives in the Midwest somewhere.

 

[Mangoverboard]

I used to give my friends number/email to companies when signing up for things. Could be something like that

 

[breakfuss]

Yep, sounds like the plot to Enemy.

 

[Reagan's BR]

Ask for the email address that they have and email him.

 

[PlayALLtheGames]

Me, myself and Sergei

Seriously.

FUCK YOU SERGEI.

Ask for the email address that they have and email him.

There's no way they'd give it out but I did ask the recruiter I just talked to a few mins ago to email him.

 

[P44]

Sergei: "Damn son, recruiters giving me no love."

 

[aeolist]

my personal number keeps getting calls for a local hispanic guy with lots of health problems

my work number apparently used to belong to a woman named annette whose husband died a few months back which occasioned several heartfelt texts of condolences

 

[NH Apache]

You know sergei-oo? I know sergei-oooo

 

[krae_man]

Probably a typo on his resume.

 

[30yearsofhurt]

Split personality

.

 

[GulAtiCa]

My bet is you two have a very similar phone number. Like where your's might be 555-1234 and his might be 555-1243 and so on. So it's likely in some cases he is giving his number to people outloud without writing it down, and the people don't write it down and have it wrong.

Sucks though.

 

[Deaf Spacker]

Challenge him to a game of Russian roulette.

 

[Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew]

Take his job if the offer is nice!

 

[CloudyTuba]

Dumbass probably doesn't know his own number.

I've had the same number since ~2001. To this day 15 years later, I still get calls for a guy that isn't me. Enough to know that whoever this is, he must still be giving my number out to people.

And he isn't giving it out to companies to avoid sales calls or something. I get calls from various family members. From his job. From the marina where his boat resides. I get to hear all about this guy's life.

On one occasion I actually had a guy try to argue with me vehemently that he called the right number, and I must have stolen the phone.

 

[Übermatik]

SERGEI!

Spoiler

r/hailcorporate

 

[FairyD]

Look him up on LinkedIn

 

[Familienoberhauptvogel]

First rule of the fight club, you do not talk about Fight Club.

 

[DeployThatPizza]

Battle to the death OP.

 

[Jeronimo Jones]

A couple years ago I started having what I assume was debt collectors robocalling my number every few days for a woman I have never heard of, sometimes leaving voicemails for her, sometimes not answering when I would call back to see what they wanted.

It was annoying for a while, they would call at random hours during the day while I was working so I would only occasionally be able to answer and tell them I had no idea why they had my number.

I was already watching my credit reports, so I blocked the numbers and it hasn't happened again in a while.

 

[PlayALLtheGames]

Look him up on LinkedIn

Yeah. "Sergei, Russian, IT, DC area."

1 billion results.

 

[John Kowalski]

Is OP Boris?

 

[harriet the spy]

I managed to get myfirstname@gmail.com as my email address (where obviously myfirstname is my actual first name). I get subscribed to random websites all the time (not porn, surprisingly, but a lot of free to play webgames, the existence of which usually completely unknown to me), get job interview questionnaire, various administrative forms, bills, payslips, contracts, personal email talking about illness and death, family pictures, pictures of teens doing stupid shit, sent to this address, every, fucking, day. Rarely, random people actually intend to email me and tell me they have the same first name (which is somewhat uncommon) and tell me about their lives.
Once in a while I'll get 10-15 attempts emails attempting to reset the password.

LIVE ME ALONE PEOPLE.

 

[HardRojo]

Probably just a small mistake. A few years ago I noticed I had been giving out for a couple of months a cellphone number I no longer used, it wasn't until a friend tried to call me immediately after I gave the number to him that I noticed lol.

 

[PlayALLtheGames]

Probably just a small mistake. A few years ago I noticed I had been giving out for a couple of months a cellphone number I no longer used, it wasn't until a friend tried to call me immediately after I gave the number to him that I noticed lol.

Yeah but this started last summer. How does a guy keep mistakenly giving out the wrong number for that long?

 

[magawolaz]

You have his number, just call him.

 

[Jack The Nipper]

call the number and see what happens

 

[Apathy]

I get this every now and then but what happens far more frequently is people using my email address which is just firstname.lastname@gmail.com.

This happens to me cause some idiot that keeps doing it does not realize that as a gmail user you own firstname.lastname but also firstnamelastname . I think he has one with an underscore or dash but keeps forgetting it.

 

[False Witness]

Perhaps he has the same exact number, but just has a different area code and isn't used to giving people the area code?

 

[tim.mbp]

Sounds like a Highlander situation.

 

[Catdaddy]

Our old phone number was one digit off from an escort service, so about once-twice a month, usually in the middle of the night, we’d get a call. My wife always had something colorful to say to them before hanging up the phone. We ended up having our number (for free by the phone company) changed when my daughter got to the age where she was using the phone.

I have a gmail account that is my initals and name with no numbers and have a dozen or so people that for some reason use my address, once got a copy of someones passport. I usually reply if it’s a personal email and about half the time I get the same email back a few hours later.

 

[Jeronimo Jones]

Several months ago I was also getting random text messages like these every once in a while:

"Kaveh , Tim here just talked to JP and he said you have some ideas re west coast funding ? Around all day tomorrow for a call. T"

and

"Berna ai disculpe k nole conteste estaba ablando con un cliente de un trabajo... Siba apoder para irme para su casa"

Pretty standard stuff I guess.

 

[NeonBlack]

Have you met anyone recently who sells expensive bath soaps?

 

[davepoobond]

Our old phone number was one digit off from an escort service, so about once-twice a month, usually in the middle of the night, we’d get a call. My wife always had something colorful to say to them before hanging up the phone. We ended up having our number (for free by the phone company) changed when my daughter got to the age where she was using the phone

an old phone number of mine that we used for internet access was 1 digit off from a wheelchair place, so we were getting a lot of old people and presumably-disabled people calling for the other place, so the number would ring off the hook occasionally. i had an answering machine at the time and people would ignore the message and just start complaining about how no one would pick up or just speak gibberish into the phone and then hang up after a while.