weird phone numbers

[moiflan]

Had a couple of telephone calls recently(one at 6a.m)but when I answered no ne spoke and they hung up.The numbers are not the usual dialling codes for u.k or even foreign codes.They began with 06309 and 09889.Anyone any idea where they originate from,tried the internet but no luck in finding their origin.Thanks

[Old_Geezer]

http://en.wikipedia.o...in_the_United_Kingdom

06 is personal, 09 premium. Either someone selling or more likely at 6am, scamming.

[squarebear]

They hope you will ring them back out of curiosity at £20 per minute.

[moiflan]

O6 is personal?I thought all mobiles in this country began with O7?Or landlines with O or O1?Scamming,what does that mean?Like sqarebear said to ring them back?Ta

[SpikeyBush]

At home in Ireland I had a crowd calling from an '076' number which I thought was Sligo-ish area but turned out to be skype when I researched it.

If I don't want to talk to them I just tell them to bugger off and hang up.

[Old_Geezer]

A scam is a plot to extract your money from you having provided nothing of value in return. Encouraging you to ring a premium number for no benefit would be one such scheme.

Yes I believe much of the 07 range have been allocated to mobiles.

[gordonia]

Scamming means being screwed out of your money moiflan,and squarebear is absolutely right;that's the scam or part of it.

[annadomino]

Just park the phone, and let THEM foot the bill. As in, just a moment... then leave em

[moiflan]

sorted! great to have you lot at my fingertips.thanks.Nite nite

[jomifl]

^ If you leave your phone off the hook, the caller cannot disconnect so cannot scam anyone and it is free!

[Old_Geezer]

If you are able to answer the phone at 6am, then best of luck. I'm alseep then. But answering and leaving the phone off the hook does not prevent the caller from disconnecting. The caller has control, when they put the phone down the call will drop. It is the receiver than can put the phone down, go to another phone in another room, and use that; because the call is still up.

[xstitcher]

No idea but it made me remember my strangest wrong number call I have received which came from Hong Kong....this was in the 60's and it must have cost the caller a fortune as long distance calls cost an arm and a leg way back then.

[rojash]

"If you leave your phone off the hook, the caller cannot disconnect so cannot scam anyone and it is free!"

Nope, that only works the other way round - i.e. if the caller doesn't hang up then the called party can't disconnect.

[David H]

I'd really need the complete numbers and run them through my system, but the first number you give doesn't exist (at all, it's not a valid number anywhere in the world), the second is probably from the same place as came together.

Therefore you are recording masked numbers, used by telemarketers to stop phones rejecting them with withheld numbers. Most are things like 00000 etc or 011234 and the like, but can use whatever rubbish they like. Take no notice, they are all calling from outside the UK and totally outside British law and unless you answer one of the recorded messages and press the button they ask you to can't do a thing.

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