Monday, February 8, 2010

Dangerous APPS

My wonderful husband got a call saturday night from what appeared to be the bank, but when he answered it it was really his friend Jake. It's a new app for cell phones called bluff my call. It is really quite clever actually. You can call anyone in your phonebook from your phone, but it shows up on their caller id as anyone you want it to. Well after he learned about this app he downloaded it right away and decided to call his brother pretending to be mall security and telling him that his store got broken in to. His brother was pretty calm about the whole thing and just said "ok i'll call the owner." If pranking one person wasn't enought Kyle had to get someone else. He decided to call his old boss at Foot Locker from Foot Locker's number. This time he pretended to be some guy named Jeffrey and convince Marty that he had broken into the store and was going to steal everything. One problem though....instead of Marty answering the phone, his wife did instead. Kyle (in his disguised voice) starts saying how he has broken into the store, etc. Well she starts freaking out a little and hands the phone to Marty. While Kyle is still pretending to have broken into the store we hear her in the background talking to someone. I look at Kyle and say "she is calling the cops!" And sure enough that is what she had done. She had called the cops and was telling them that someone was breaking into the mall. When Kyle finally came clean and they told the cops that it was just a prank the cops said they were going to have to call kyle. We thought he was going to get in so much trouble, but the cop just had to make sure it was actually a prank. I was so glad that nothing else came of it. To make things worse HE WANTED TO CALL ANOTHER PERSON! This app could be bad...very bad!