Cheaters' days are numbered

April 14, 2004 9:08 AM

Dial-A-Cheater"proved what I couldn't. After he answered the call I scheduled, I asked him who it was. He lied. I totally busted him out. He was cheating with my best friend!" Kill the illusion of joy with a cell phone (and $1.95 USD).
posted by LinusMines (18 comments total)

of joy

(Unless, of course, that's your kink.)
posted by LinusMines at 9:16 AM on April 14, 2004

So they're spoofing Cell Phone Numbers? And giving you a way to fuel your fire...

Hm.. that's trust at it's best.
posted by psychotic_venom at 9:58 AM on April 14, 2004

this is so creepy.

With Dial-A-Cheater you can have peace of mind in a matter of minutes.

yeah, sure.
posted by tcp at 10:04 AM on April 14, 2004

For fun I took their quiz on whether "she is loyal" and even after answering their leading questions in a way that should in no way implicate her as a cheater, the javascript popup announces "SHE SEEMS LOYAL, BUT WHY NOT TEST HER ANYWAY!"

asshats.
posted by terrapin at 10:15 AM on April 14, 2004

Doesn't anybody know how to cheat on their S.O's nowadays? Has nobody heard of Occams Razor?

After he answered the call I scheduled, I asked him who it was. He told the truth. I totally couldn't pin anything on him. It just looked like he was talking to my best friend.
posted by seanyboy at 10:17 AM on April 14, 2004

Scarface style. Nice.
posted by tirade at 10:21 AM on April 14, 2004

Not that I cheat, but surely people who do can't possibly be this bad at covering their tracks? I mean, really, the whole thing requires your girlfriend to already know the number of the person you're supposed to be cheating with. You'd have to be kind of incautious to let things get to that stage.
posted by reklaw at 10:34 AM on April 14, 2004

Reklaw, you need to watch more Jerry Springer.
posted by teg at 10:38 AM on April 14, 2004

If you're cheating, maybe you want to be caught so you can have an excuse to get out of a relationship? I mean, why else cheat?
posted by Eekacat at 10:46 AM on April 14, 2004

eekacat wins!
posted by chrisroberts at 10:55 AM on April 14, 2004

That lady on the home page certainly doesn't look like she has "peace of mind."
posted by The Card Cheat at 11:09 AM on April 14, 2004

f you're cheating, maybe you want to be caught so you can have an excuse to get out of a relationship? I mean, why else cheat?

Because you really, really want to have sex with someone else?
posted by lumpenprole at 11:11 AM on April 14, 2004

lumpenprole wins!
posted by hob at 11:39 AM on April 14, 2004

This seems like it's a joke.
posted by Dark Messiah at 12:23 PM on April 14, 2004

Turnabout is fair play; the company also offers a service called Dial-An-Alibi, whereby you can schedule a call to interrupt a meeting, using the same "you provide the phone number" idea. So the cheater could conceivably use them to schedule a "legitimate" reason to run off to an assignation.

Talk about covering all your bases.

On preview: Dark Messiah could be right.
posted by jennaratrix at 12:26 PM on April 14, 2004

I'm with Dark Messiah.
posted by alms at 12:31 PM on April 14, 2004

"We’ll see how much he likes going to church with the tramp, after I take the Lexus from him!"

DialACheater. Because church is all about what kind of car you arrive in...
posted by alumshubby at 1:48 PM on April 14, 2004

I guess I don't understand. Why would a cheater answer a call from the person they were cheating with in the presence of the wife or husband? Wouldn't you just let it go to voicemail? It seems like this service would only catch idiots.
posted by gokart4xmas at 6:28 PM on April 14, 2004