A female who was appointed an old contact number belonging by AT&T to Elon Musk says she’s obtained thousands of messages as well as requires the billionaire.

Twenty-five-year-old Lyndsay Tucker, from San Jose in California, claims she hadn’t even heard of the Space X employer up until she was arbitrarily given his old number a couple of years earlier.

Not long after being offered the recycled number, Tucker said she began to get calls and messages meant for him … a great deal of calls and messages.

Speaking to NPR, Tucker said: “I asked my mommy, ‘Hey, I keep obtaining these sms message’ – and I was additionally currently starting to obtain phone calls – ‘for this man Elon Musk. I do not know that this is’.

“And my mom’s jaw simply went down.”

Tucker has since figured out that the number utilized to be signed up to Musk and also says she currently obtains, generally, at least 3 phone calls or messages planned for him on a daily basis.

As you can imagine, when Musk says something controversial or newsworthy – which he does on a rather routine basis – Tucker’s phone promptly becomes inundated.

Tucker told the news electrical outlet: “Whenever I see his name turn up current, I’m like, ‘OK, I have to actually learn what he stated because, opportunities are, somebody is going to message me regarding it or call me concerning it’.

“Even though I find it funny a lot of the time, it does obtain annoying in some cases when it’s like call after telephone call after phone call.”

Over the past couple of years, Tucker claims she’s gotten all manner of messages, from people requesting a task, or supplying to fly right into room to sending over the plan for a bionic arm. She’s also had former Walt Disney executive John Lasseter reaching out to ‘Musk’ to praise him for his brand-new Tesla.

When it pertains to managing these calls as well as messages, Tucker has the perseverance a lot of us couldn’t even imagine, and also in a stream of messages seen by NPR she can be smoothly seen explaining to individuals that the number no more belongs to Musk as well as she has no web link or association to him or his services.

NPR gotten in touch with Musk (using e-mail, in instance you’re asking yourself) and also he responded: “Wow. That number is so old! I’m shocked it’s still out there somewhere.”