"Stay safe and stay home" voicemail messages

[luv2fly]

In the last couple months I have received several voicemail messages that come from my area code and in most cases the prefix as well, and each message says the same thing... "stay safe and stay home."

I know people can spoof area codes and numbers etc etc, but these are a little creepy and I wonder if others are getting them as well.

Wherever these are originating, the people need more constructive things to do in their lives.

[Wicked Blue]

1. Translation: Stay home and don't vote,

and we don't care if you're safe or not.

[soothsayer]

2. Friendly Covid advice, or...?

[Mike 03]

3. Can you tell if it's a recorded message or a live person?

I personally would contact the editor of my local paper, share your story and ask if they have received similar stories, and maybe ask them to investigate to see if this is a widespread phenomenon or whether you are being personally targeted.

Also, ask around. Ask your neighbors if they have received these calls.

[luv2fly]

4. It seems recorded

After I posted the message, I did a Google search and it's happening everywhere around the country as well as in Canada.

[Mike 03]

5. Found some Reddit threads on this.

Has anyone been getting "Stay safe and stay home " phone calls?

https://www.reddit.com/r/ontario/comments/hzom30/has_anyone_been_getting_stay_safe_and_stay_home/

Strange robocall “Time to stay home”
So I got a weird call today from a 352-538-XXXX number and it was a robocall that said “This is a test call. Time to stay safe. Time to stay home”, and then it disconnected. I Googled the number and couldn’t match it to anything. It was so weird/creepy! Anyone else get a call like that today?

https://www.reddit.com/r/GNV/comments/iif8sw/strange_robocall_time_to_stay_home/

It looks like this could be widespread. And these threads are from a few months back (2 months and 3 months ago).

This is strange. Thanks for making that post and bringing to everyone's attention.

I'll keep looking.

[luv2fly]

8. If they're trying to stop me from voting, I get the last laugh

I already did that!

[Mike 03]

10. Good for you!

Again, thanks for sharing this. A call like that would have scared me a little bit, but knowing so many people are getting them makes me think it's nothing to worry about. Just another desperate attempt to intimidate people.

[luv2fly]

11. My pleasure

So here's a really dumb question, I know people kick things all the time but I have no idea what that means?

[Mike 03]

7. Here's a tweet. Seems it is going on in NY too.

Link to tweet

?s=20

TEXT: NYS resident.

I’ve been getting weird robocalls from a computer generated voice saying,

“This is just a test call. Time to stay home. Stay safe and stay home.”

Then it disconnects.

Really creepy.

This seems like voter intimidation happening in several major areas: Texas, NY, Florida (?).

I'm just glad it isn't a personal threat to you. This is some last-ditch and widespread effort to scare people.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

6. A friend of mine got a call like this. We didn't learn much about it though.

[Mike 03]

9. Kicking, just in case someone gets one of these calls.

It seems widespread and people who receive these calls are being told not to be intimidated by them.

It also seems real amateur hour, although getting a call like this would have scared a little bit before Googling it to see that it's nothing to worry about.

[MakeTXBlue2020]

12. I'm in the Houston area and I've had a few of those calls

but not for at least a couple of months.

[NorthOf270]

13. I recently received a work voicemail that just said "Stay home"

It was literally two seconds. It sounded like RI Governor Gina Raimundo's voice and I assumed it was just a PSA that misfired. (I work partially in RI and have to follow contact protocols so we occasionally end up on their emergency lists). It was still creepy as hell.

[Takket]

14. i got one of these....

but the computer must have been talking over the voicemail message because by the time the "beep" came i just got the last half of the message "stay home. time to stay safe" computer generated female voice. obvious voter suppression effort. probably by a jacob wohl type.