Odd phone call
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I've had a couple of calls from what initially look like Irish mobiles but they have an additional 3 inserted before the 86 so it looks like this:
+353861231231 - valid number
+353386123123 - scam number
I didn't answer but one went to voicemail and it was a recorded message from the "Financial Crime Authority"
...unsurprisingly I haven't called them back
+353861231231 - valid number
+353386123123 - scam number
I didn't answer but one went to voicemail and it was a recorded message from the "Financial Crime Authority"
...unsurprisingly I haven't called them backWhy did she tell me to stay safe and stay indoors, I'm afraid I'm going to get hit with lightning now
Good point, they're just spoofing random numbers. Chances of them happening on one that might legitimately call you are slim though.
It's actually been an issue for us with work mobiles. We've a large number of mobile numbers all in a range, and some of the spoofed numbers are the actual number of other colleagues.
The programmes used to generate the ids will never call you twice from the same number, so it's pointless blocking them.
Yep,that could be a problem alright, but somewhat rare I would imagine, also surely most would have their colleagues number(s) in their contact list.
Just guessing ,but what would be the chances of a spam number actually turning out to be the number of some person who I don't know, trying to contact me ? Pretty slim I would think.
Not always the case though :-
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You're correct. I'm probably the only person in the country that doesn't have the hundreds of my colleagues that could legitimately call me stored in my contacts...
Correct. I should have been clearer that my comment was in relation to the current high volume of spam calls used spoofed Irish mobile numbers.
Not 100% sure if that comment is sans sarcasm . I would hazard a guess that there are not too many people in Ireland with hundreds of colleagues who may/wish to contact them. However I just checked my phone and I have over 600 contacts stored, family, friends, clients, (ex)colleagues and spurious (haven't a clue who some of them are), so well within reasonable limits to store many contacts.
But we can't be sure, can we? Unless over time somebody has done research and documented these numbers fully. Anyway, the point I was trying to make was that IMO there is a positive to blocking these numbers.
I installed a call filtering/blocking app that allowed me to block numbers following a pattern and it stopped about 95% of these calls for me.
They stopped entirely after about 2-3 weeks. After which I uninstalled the app. Makes me think its probably the one company, or system that was calling me and when it never got picked up, the software moved on.
It seemed to be about 4 to 5 calls from the same number before it would move on and try another number multiple times. . Likewise with a pattern of numbers all similar, often similar to my own.
They stopped entirely after about 2-3 weeks. After which I uninstalled the app. Makes me think its probably the one company, or system that was calling me and when it never got picked up, the software moved on.
It seemed to be about 4 to 5 calls from the same number before it would move on and try another number multiple times. . Likewise with a pattern of numbers all similar, often similar to my own.
I got that twice today
I would ignore it . As a matter of interest is the mobile number similar to number that you were in contact with recently. This happened to me. The number that rang me was similar to my sisters who had rang me earlier that day but had two of the digits reversed .
It was a recorded message