I've had missed calls on my mobile from two seperate numbers starting 0706 and on my land line I called the number and it put me through to an answer phone saying 'your call is being connected'. I promptly put the phone down. What's this all about?
2006-10-22 22:07:42 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in News & Events ➔ Current Events
i have had this several times on both my mobile and landline. when i answered my mobile to them they were trying to sell me a different mobile phone package. They bugged me and my husband for weeks on different numbers starting 0706.....in the end we threatened to report them and they miraculously stopped calling.
2006-10-22 22:21:01 · answer #1 · answered by heleneaustin 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Most of these 070x numbers are "Hospital Patient Phones" whereby each bed in a hospital has its own phone, and call are made out by using a pre-paid card with a pin, and calls inwards all start with the 070. They are VERY expensive calls, - I was in hospital at the beginning of the month (in London) and bought a £5 card, and when I dialled a LOCAL number, the 'voice' told me that I could spend fifty minutes on this number, meaning that local calls are charged at 10p per minute. I answered this problem last week for somebody who'd had these 'mysterious' charges appear, and they came back to me and said "I'd forgotten I had a mate in hospital - No wonder he asked me to call HIM!"
2006-10-22 22:50:15 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I had a missed call the other day and rang back and it was some bloke who instantly said he was doing a security check for 02 (I am on Orange!) and asked blatantly for my bank acc number to check I am me. So I hung up and told the Police...
2006-10-22 22:57:57 · answer #3 · answered by Laura-southdevonplayers 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ring your telephone provider, and ask them to check out the number. Say that the number keeps ringing you and then hanging up.
2006-10-23 01:53:10 · answer #4 · answered by Mrs B 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
not necessarily a scam - sometimes when you call a vodaphone they do this, and sometimes it is when the other phone is abroad (ie/British user and phone in another country on hols)
2006-10-22 22:12:05 · answer #5 · answered by sarah_roo03 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
probably a call center,dont hang up you have a right to know who has been calling you,ring them again and see
2006-10-22 22:12:35 · answer #6 · answered by dumplingmuffin 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its a pain isnt it. If people stopped buying stuff when they recieve these calls then they would stop doing it.
2006-10-23 03:54:05 · answer #7 · answered by simon m 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if u call back it might cost loads,just ignore it but if they call again answer & u will find out.
2006-10-22 22:16:43 · answer #8 · answered by Chocoholic 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ask callcenter.
2006-10-22 22:17:03 · answer #9 · answered by Viren 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋