876 jamacian number constantly ringing me scam

davgtrek

Since 8am yesterday morn i have had an (876)445 xxx number ringing me constantly. Up to 10 calls per hours all through night also. if you answer you get a voice male/female sometimes very hard to understand saying fairly stupid stuff "raul where you at" "please ring me back" and i have gotten a few texts with just "WMP12". Have called o2 and they can do little for me as no charges have occurred on my account but its a pain in the ass. I've tried hurling abuse at the callers. The numbers keep changing so its some kind of computer/dialler/ with real people scam.....

any advise ? what can i do.

wmpdd3

This isnt really a solution, but you can go into 'diverts' in your phone and send those calls straight to voice mail.

Gran Hermano

Not a scam, just some people dialing the wrong number.

Tom Dunne

I had something similar, except it would ring once and then hang up. And they would do this several times in a row.

I presume the idea is to get you to call them back.

What I did was to pounce the second the phone rang and answer it, so it cost them money. It soon stopped after that.

davgtrek

It's far from a few people with wrong number. The number keeps changing and it's relentless. About 20 diff numbers all with same prefix used at this stage.

Gran Hermano wrote: »

Not a scam, just some people dialing the wrong number.

wmpdd3

It has to be an auto dialer.

davgtrek

Latest now was that a blocked number came up and it was a woman claiming she got a text on her other phone that said I won a prize etc. I spoke with her for about 30 seconds and laid it out clear to her that I had her tracked down to Kingston and was getting closer to finding the company name eyc. So a few missed calls last night and now some threatening texts from them with everything spelt wrong in them etc.
I'll see how today goes.

wmpdd3 wrote: »

It has to be an auto dialer.

vicM

Pick up tell them to wait a sec, pop it onto hold and continue watching tv

davgtrek

they have ceased ringing me finally. They were fairly consistent over past 4 days and i got a few fairly abusive texts also. It seems that the scam is to get you to ring them ( thus incurring hefty phone charges of which they get a share ) to give out/tell them to shag off etc. so DON'T!!!!

griffdaddy

I've seen pictures of these kind of Jamaican scam operations before

clintondaly

Forward the call to someone you dont like