Occasionally in The Sims, when a Sim picks up the phone, it will be a prank call. They were placed in the game for fun by Maxis. Prank calls can occur at any time of day, but calls that occur between midnight and 8:00 am are almost always prank calls, and are usually meant to make the player scared or worry that something bad will happen to them. Anxiety - Madness Paranoia by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution licence (.