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Re: OT: spam phone calls

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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.


-- 
Cheers, Carlos.

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      Re: OT: spam phone calls David Woolley <david@ex.djwhome.demon.invalid> - 2025-05-07 20:39 +0100
        Re: OT: spam phone calls Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> - 2025-05-13 22:48 +1000
      Re: OT: spam phone calls "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-05-07 22:34 +0200
  Re: OT: spam phone calls David Wade <g4ugm@dave.invalid> - 2025-03-20 15:50 +0000
    Re: OT: spam phone calls "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-03-20 22:32 +0100
  Re: OT: spam phone calls Philip Herlihy <nothing@invalid.com> - 2025-03-21 12:18 +0000
  Re: OT: spam phone calls "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-04-09 12:50 +0200
  Re: OT: spam phone calls "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-05-13 15:09 +0200
    Re: OT: spam phone calls Jörg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.net> - 2025-05-13 16:08 +0200
      Re: OT: spam phone calls "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-05-13 20:37 +0200
        Re: OT: spam phone calls Jörg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.net> - 2025-05-13 21:27 +0200
    Re: OT: spam phone calls Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> - 2025-05-15 20:59 +1000
      Re: OT: spam phone calls "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-05-15 13:40 +0200
        Re: OT: spam phone calls JMB99 <mb@nospam.net> - 2025-05-15 17:05 +0100

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