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If you've been on long call for a week then 24 in 7 would apply.
You need a day off. But that's not Whitlow.
What probably happened is the report time was in less than nine hours. When you are on long call you are not "resting" for Whitlow purposes. You have to be able to satisfy the look-back requirements even if you were not on short call. That's why we have the 12 hour report for long call guys. When they call you and give you a trip you have a 12 hour duty free period (no phone responsibility) prior to report. (or 10 hours prior to starting short call) That's Whitlow.
Seems odd they would call before they checked your legality. Normally the computer would instantly tell them you can't fly the trip and they would just skip you.
It's not so odd that the computer called everyone. I had this same thing happen to me a few months ago. The scheduler explained that in the past they would check to see if a line was legal and then call. However, since they've gone to robo-call, the computer calls everyone and then the scheduler has to individually check to see if its legal.