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Phone calls at night from Slovenian number wtf?

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    #32
    Micky Dolenz
    Registered Users Posts: 44,080 ✭✭✭✭Micky Dolenz


    WoollyRedHat wrote: »
    You wouldn't steal a car.


    I would if I could download it.


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    #33
    Sleepy
    Registered Users Posts: 24,158 ✭✭✭✭Sleepy


    Yup got one at 3am myself. Cleverly assuming I'd be too drunk to recognise the difference between their number and a standard Irish one at that hour of a Saturday night... Unfortunately for them, I'm off the beer at the moment ;)

    I'm an 087263****


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    #34
    jake is right
    Registered Users Posts: 22,242 ✭✭✭✭jake is right


    Same thing. Just last two digits different. Call at 7am. Today!


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    #35
    Graupel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 82 ✭✭Graupel


    Got a call from this number as well twice, Only rang for about 3 seconds each time not giving time to answer. I'm not in the habit of ringing missed calls back so no worries for me.

    ***** anyway.


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    #36
    yoyo
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 11,011 Mod ✭✭✭✭yoyo


    C*nts woke me up at 4.30 this morning, actually thought it was an 086 number some pissed person called by accident, makes sense now, didn't phone back thankfully :P

    Nick

    My Beer Glass collection site 🍺

    My Irish Callcards site



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    #37
    Chorcai
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 2,283 Mod ✭✭✭✭Chorcai


    Picked up by the Journal

    http://www.thejournal.ie/mobile-phone-users-targeted-by-slovenian-premium-number-scam-771486-Jan2013/?utm_source=facebook_self&utm_medium=thejournal&utm_campaign=from_page


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    #38
    KyussBishop
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,797 ✭✭✭KyussBishop


    Ah so that's what this was; got the call from this number at 6am; thankfully my shítbox phone died mid-ring, without waking me fully.


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    #39
    Autosport
    Registered Users Posts: 22,249 ✭✭✭✭Autosport


    Ah shur they didnt leave me out either and gave me a nice wake up call at 7:30am :D but i'm an 086 number


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    #40
    bbsrs
    Registered Users Posts: 943 ✭✭✭bbsrs


    They must have made a few grand off it considering the amount of calls they made. Is it illegal what they do?


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    #41
    TheUsual
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,288 ✭✭✭TheUsual


    I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you.
    If you let my daughter go now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you.


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    #42
    ENMcD
    Registered Users Posts: 233 ✭✭ENMcD


    I also got missed call at 9.55 last night rang for 2 seconds and decided ahh sure i'll call it back so i did and sounded quiet sexual on the other end so hung up straight away and it only took a few cents credit!


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    #43
    jack presley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,687 ✭✭✭✭jack presley


    Maybe it's just me but if I have a missed call on my phone, unless its someone I know or they've left a message I never call back. If it was important they'd have left a message or they'll ring back.

    I have heard people beside me in work use the line "hi, I had a missed call from this number" so is it the norm to do this?


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    #44
    Allyall
    Registered Users Posts: 10,381 ✭✭✭✭Allyall


    There seems to be a load of them, one has an extra number and one is a digit shorter.. Notice that the one with the extra digit starts with 353.

    http://whocallsme.com/Phone-Number.aspx/38681897057
    http://whocallsme.com/Phone-Number.aspx/38681897022
    http://whocallsme.com/Phone-Number.aspx/38681897040
    http://whocallsme.com/Phone-Number.aspx/38681897034
    http://whocallsme.com/Phone-Number.aspx/3868189704
    http://whocallsme.com/Phone-Number.aspx/38681897048
    http://whocallsme.com/Phone-Number.aspx/38681897042
    http://whocallsme.com/Phone-Number.aspx/35338681897040


    A lot of people saying that they and their spouse received them at roughly the same time.

    LOADS of them here - http://whocallsme.com/Phone-Calls.aspx/386/m

    EDIT: Ireland seems to be restricted to the ones that start 386818970**


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    #45
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    Glad I saw this thread

    Got one past 5am this morning and was googling the country code to find Slovenia.

    Thanks for the info OP!


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    #46
    homerjay2005
    Registered Users Posts: 29,346 ✭✭✭✭homerjay2005


    my sister, her husband, my mother and father all got this last night. all of them are vodafone.

    wonder have their accounts been hacked?


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    #47
    ThreeLineWhip
    Closed Accounts Posts: 473 ✭✭ThreeLineWhip


    I fail to see it is a scam as the number is not premium rate and is charged at the international rate for Slovenia. I fail to see how anyone is making money here except your phone company.


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    #48
    ThreeLineWhip
    Closed Accounts Posts: 473 ✭✭ThreeLineWhip


    I fail to see it is a scam as the number is not premium rate and is charged at the international rate for Slovenia. I fail to see how anyone is making money here except your phone company.


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    #49
    bbsrs
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    ThreeLineWhip wrote: »
    I fail to see it is a scam as the number is not premium rate and is charged at the international rate for Slovenia. I fail to see how anyone is making money here except your phone company.

    Maybe it's a test run before the hit the large volume countries using the premium number or it's someone that's really bored.


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    #50
    FouxDaFaFa
    Registered Users Posts: 6,850 ✭✭✭FouxDaFaFa


    bbsrs wrote: »
    They must have made a few grand off it considering the amount of calls they made. Is it illegal what they do?
    I'd say the law is interesting because it seems they're purposely picking times when people will miss calls (and so call them back). They don't actually want to enage with people so it probably doesn't count as cold-calling. I'm not sure about the legality of auto-dialing machines though.


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    #51
    HoleDigger
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    It’s not always a scam. I’m in for a windfall after an Ugandan prince died and left his fortune to his cousin who needs me to transfer it into my bank account in return for a few million, I’ve the bank details given already and I expect it any day now... as soon as my bank sorts out why I can’t withdraw my own money anymore but then I’ll be a rich man!!


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    #52
    ilovesleep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,619 ✭✭✭ilovesleep


    My sister got a call from the same number too.


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    #53
    cantdecide
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    bbsrs wrote: »
    Numbers are all 087 6xxxxxx apart from that not sequential or anything.

    I'm Vodafone 087656**** and I got my call Sun. morning at 3.20am. Phone was on silent so saw the missed call yesterday morning and in my sleep daze thought it was a +35386. Thankfully I never call unknown numbers back.


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    #54
    Allyall
    Registered Users Posts: 10,381 ✭✭✭✭Allyall


    http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2013/0128/breaking21.html
    The communications watchdog has moved swiftly to ensure that those behind a scam which targeted tens of thousands of Irish mobile phone users over the weekend do not get paid.

    Throughout Saturday night and Sunday morning thousands of people received missed calls from a number which started with the prefix 386. Many called the number back under the assumption that it came from an Irish 086 number – which would appear on a mobile phone as 35386.
 However they were then connected to a premium rate service based in Slovenia and while some had their calls cut off as soon as a connection was made, others were diverted to telephone sex lines.



    The communications regulator ComReg was unable to say how much the connection charges were or how much money the scam cost Irish consumers but the connection charge is believed to have been in excess of €2 while similar charges for each additional minute callers spent on the line.



    Irish consumers are, however, likely be reimbursed by their providers for any charges incurred after ComReg stepped in to ensure the company behind the calls would not get paid. “If those responsible do not get paid by their provider then the Irish networks will not have to pay any money and consumers will have all call charges reimbursed” an industry source told The Irish Times.


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    #55
    ThreeLineWhip
    Closed Accounts Posts: 473 ✭✭ThreeLineWhip


    I still fail to see how it is a premium number.


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    #56
    keith16
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    ThreeLineWhip wrote: »
    I still fail to see how it is a premium number.

    Ring them back there and they will explain it to you. It's fairly complex so you might be on to them for a while.


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    #57
    danslevent
    Registered Users Posts: 893 ✭✭✭danslevent


    I get calls off Romanion numbers a lot.

    I'm sooo popular.


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    #58
    [Deleted User]
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    homerjay2005 wrote: »
    my sister, her husband, my mother and father all got this last night. all of them are vodafone.

    wonder have their accounts been hacked?

    We got one last week on our landline, which is Vodafone! Hmmm
    http://www.independent.ie/national-news/watchdog-squashes-mobile-phone-scam-3369073.html


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    #59
    Lionel Messy
    Site Banned Posts: 612 ✭✭✭Lionel Messy


    It sounds like a good idea for a horror movie.

    "Lake Bled"


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    #60
    Annasopra
    Registered Users Posts: 40,880 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    Has anyone received a missed call from a 001800 number. Received one today

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



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    #61
    shopaholic01
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    mango salsa wrote: »
    Has anyone received a missed call from a 001800 number. Received one today
    I get a lot of these on my landline, they usually call when I'm at work. Managed to answer it once and the call disconnected.

    I've never tried to call back as I don't recognise the number.


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