Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!reader5.news.weretis.net!news.solani.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richmond Newsgroups: alt.comp.os.windows-10,uk.telecom.mobile,comp.mobile.android Subject: Re: OT: spam phone calls Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2025 15:21:54 +0000 Organization: Frantic Message-ID: <861purzq0d.fsf@example.com> References: <8kjtalxutn.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: solani.org; logging-data="191485"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@news.solani.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:gAMvVo4CkGFDPaAvZxZjBifIQdM= sha1:Dz9ryg1DNabTr6+0c/lJoOBHJVQ= X-User-ID: eJwFwYERACEIA7CVUNvij8NV2H+ET3i05IQocDi6kawYGnjxJbd3N+fSLtnZgfXmBLJs6QcWIhEx Xref: csiph.com alt.comp.os.windows-10:182941 uk.telecom.mobile:46086 comp.mobile.android:147317 "Carlos E.R." writes: > On 2025-03-20 13:10, Graham J wrote: >> I know you're all very knowledgeable here, so: > > There are groups more appropriate to phone trouble, like > comp.mobile.android or uk.telecom.mobile. I have added them both to > this post, so they will see your post below. > >> Received a call on my mobile, from a lady in Scotland who says I rang >> her landline earlier this morning.  I did not, and my mobile phone >> has been sitting on the windowsill (being the only place it can get a >> signal) all morning, with nobody near it. The lady used 1471 to find >> out who had rung her number, and used it's recall facility to ring >> me; so she didn't make any transcription error in dialling my number. >> I'm aware that spammers spoof mobile numbers but had always assumed >> that they chose unallocated numbers.  That is now apparently no >> longer true - unless all you here can think of another way that the >> 1471 service can see an erroneous number. > > I thought Britain had some new regulation about faking the A number in > a call. > > I never return phone calls from unknown numbers. Only when I know the > number is from some friend or family I return the call, but I prefer > to let them try again, maybe they got interrupted. It doesn't yet cover spoofed mobile numbers in caller-id.