Apparition

Keep getting calls from a Reading phone number, when I pick up the phone, they hang up.
I'll gladly print the number here if anyone wants to try a bit of detective work. But when I've re-dialled it, I get a recorded message saying I cannot leave a message !! ?
Is there any means whereby I can find out who the hell this is ? It is begining to bug me now as it's almost every day.
Yve

NotoriousREV

Try Googling it, if it's a company you might get a hit. Try searching for it as a complete number with no spaces and with a space between the area code and the number.

Also try www.192.com

davegtt

You might find its an automatic dialer, it'll be a company like your credit card company trying to ring you automatically and by the time youve answered the phone there are no free agents to put you through too so it stays silent for a moment or 2 before hanging up. After a week or so there'll eventually be someone talking to you and it'll all stop.

Reality

Report it to BT. Tell them you're worried. They'll get to the bottom of it.

GrahameS

If you're with BT you can get onto their 'Choose to refuse' service. then when the number calls you, you can block it from being able to call you again. I used to have a similar thing, my mate reckoned it is marketing companies who ring up at various times of day and record when the phone is answered, and therefore know when you are in. They then sell the info to other companies so that they can phone up at the right times to annoy you.

Dunno how much truth there is in it.

Alternatively try registering with the Telephone preference service here:
http://www.tpsonline.org.uk/tps/

This cut down the amount of time waster calls i got to virtually none..

Hol

iTrader: (1)

Print out some cards for:

‘Any Distance 24Hr Taxi Company

£5.00 Fixed fee upto 5Miles’


Put that phone number on them and stick them in all the local phone boxes, clubs and pubs.

You wont find out who they are, but it WILL make you feel better knowing they will get out of hours calls from pi$$ heads in the middle of the night.

Apparition

Nice one Hol................. certainly feel like implementing that type of response at the mo.
Yve

AndyC_772

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You can always Google for the number; it might be that others have received calls from the same number and posted the same question.

That happened to me a few weeks ago, I had a couple of calls on my mobile which went dead as soon as I answered. The caller's number came up on the screen, though, and Google came up with half a dozen links to people who had received nuisance calls from the same number.

I've still no idea what the damn calls were actually for, though...

SwissTony

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this is your best bet mate.....educated guess and very common