'Man called me on withheld number and made disgusting 13-word request'

Getting calls from withheld numbers can be a bit unnerving and creepy, but sometimes you might have to answer and see what the caller has to say. However, when one woman answered the phone, she was left with major regrets when he came out with a disgusting request towards the end of the call. "This is why you should never answer a no caller ID phone call," she fumed, claiming curiosity killed the cat on this occasion.

"I cannot even believe that this story I'm about to tell you is true," Ellie Cheesman said, adding that she "still wasn't over it."

Ellie explained that on TikTok she has a content creator account, and "one way or another, it's turned into a business account."

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This has meant that her number had been publicly available "for two years," and she had no clue.

Out of the blue, she started "getting no caller ID phone calls," which were "becoming quite frequent." She explained that she had been ignoring them, but one day, she decided to pick up the phone on a whim.

Ellie said: "I thought the only way to end this was to answer and say listen, stop calling me whoever you are," so she picked up the phone.

She joked that she'd now be referring to him as "dodgy Derek," but said she had no idea what his name actually was.

She answered, saying: "Hello, who is this?"

He then claimed that he found her through an "agency following list" on TikTok, saying that he had a "marketing experience" that he wanted to get her involved with.

He then said that he could offer "£80 to £120 to just take a picture in some designer shoes" that he sells.

"You can tell where this is going," Ellie said, continuing: "Absolutely not. Please email me and stop calling me."

He ended the phone call by saying, "Please, no, I just really want to buy some feet pictures off you."

"I was absolutely mortified. I said I wanted to become a full-time content creator, but that is not the content I wanted to do. Dodgy Derek, you don't want to see my toes, they're absolutely vile," she joked.

In the comments, one woman said: "I need to answer every no caller ID phone call. I'm way too nosy."

Many said that they found the story "hilarious," saying that she's hopefully "learned her lesson not to answer the phone" in case it's another person propositioning her.

"You could've made a fortune," someone joked, but Ellie was standing firm with her decision to avoid selling pictures of her feet.