Phone calls at night from Slovenian number wtf?

bbsrs · 27-01-2013 4:34pm #1

Hi All just a quick question , some friends and I have gotten phone calls at all hours from this Slovenian number +386 8 189 7042 . Just want to know if anyone else has recieved call from this number because it's defo no one we know and the voice on the line is not speaking English.
It's odd and we're wondering if one of our phones had the contacts hacked off it or something similar.

Allyall · 27-01-2013 4:39pm

Seems to be a scam

http://whocallsme.com/Phone-Number.aspx/38681897042

TeddyTedson · 27-01-2013 4:39pm

It's a scam, they want you to call it back and you'll be charged an outrageous rate for it. I have no idea where they get our niumbers but don't worry about it. Just don't call it.

Red Pepper · 27-01-2013 4:41pm

Wow! I got a call from that exact number last night at 2:30am.
I couldn't recognise the country code so didn't answer.

bbsrs · 27-01-2013 4:41pm

TeddyTedson wrote: »

It's a scam, they want you to call it back and you'll be charged an outrageous rate for it. I have no idea where they get our niumbers but don't worry about it. Just don't call it.

Random numbers fair enough but I thought it was weird 3 friend in less than 6 hours.

P_1 · 27-01-2013 4:42pm

Its a scam, the Slovenian international code makes it look like you missed a call from an 086 mobile number.

Presumably the numbers were hacked from one of the mobile companies databases

Allyall · 27-01-2013 4:44pm

They probably got their hands on a phone bill or something, maybe hacked an online account. Got all the numbers off that, and ringing numbers from that phonebook..

The only reason i am thinking that's a possibility instead of randomly generating numbers, is because your friends got called also. Unless your numbers are close to each other?

bbsrs · 27-01-2013 4:47pm

Allyall wrote: »

Seems to be a scam

http://whocallsme.com/Phone-Number.aspx/38681897042

Thanks for that.

bbsrs · 27-01-2013 4:50pm

Allyall wrote: »

They probably got their hands on a phone bill or something, maybe hacked an online account. Got all the numbers off that, and ringing numbers from that phonebook..

The only reason i am thinking that's a possibility instead of randomly generating numbers, is because your friends got called also. Unless your numbers are close to each other?

Numbers are all 087 6xxxxxx apart from that not sequential or anything.

27-01-2013 4:50pm

I've heard it's another of those international premium rate "call back and you'll hear porn" numbers.

Biggins · 27-01-2013 4:52pm

...Or its Lord Lucan ringing someone random, to see if its safe to return home?
He wants to return on the back of Shergar I hear.

Clondalphian · 27-01-2013 4:55pm

I got a call from the same number apart from the last digit was 8 last night at quarter to ten. I answered and said hello but nobody responded. My mother got a call from the same number too. Just as well I didn't bother ringing back. I just thought to myself "if its important they'll ring back"

27-01-2013 4:56pm

Ya the brother and mother got the same calls within an hour of each other yesterday. Don't ring back

Tazio · 27-01-2013 4:57pm

03:30am this morning here too... Thanks for waking a sick 16 month old baby who ever you are.... I hope to return the favour sometime.......

bbsrs · 27-01-2013 5:01pm

Whoever it is they must have access to peoples contacts details of some sort , changed my apple ID password just in case.

TouchingVirus · 27-01-2013 5:04pm

4:32am this morning for me - complete cocks

donmeister · 27-01-2013 5:04pm

Got rang at 3.10am last night waking me up before work ffs ....

SLOVAKIAN CUNTZ!

Inbox · 27-01-2013 5:07pm

My mam and dad got the same call. they are on vodafone.

bbsrs · 27-01-2013 5:09pm

donmeister wrote: »

Got rang at 3.10am last night waking me up before work ffs ....

SLOVAKIAN CUNTZ!

Slovenian not Slovakian .

shanec1928 · 27-01-2013 5:15pm

bbsrs wrote: »

Numbers are all 087 6xxxxxx apart from that not sequential or anything.

looks like there going through them all im 087 2xxxxxx got my one during the day yesterday. missed it though..

Micky Dolenz · 27-01-2013 5:17pm

Looks legit to me.

bbsrs · 27-01-2013 5:20pm

Pippa Middleton's Arse wrote: »

Looks legit to me.

Wanna buy a car?

Micky Dolenz · 27-01-2013 5:21pm

bbsrs wrote: »

Wanna buy a car?

Cool, send me on your bank details and I'll lodge the money in.

BBDBB · 27-01-2013 5:23pm

Karsini wrote: »

I've heard it's another of those international premium rate "call back and you'll hear porn" numbers.

its not even decent porn

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apparently:o

KilOit · 27-01-2013 5:23pm

How do they get money from it? surely the money goes to the Slovenian phone company

bbsrs · 27-01-2013 5:23pm

Pippa Middleton's Arse wrote: »

Cool, send me on your bank details and I'll lodge the money in.

Do you want my Internet banking password too . The car is in Lagos.

bbsrs · 27-01-2013 5:25pm

KilOit wrote: »

How do they get money from it? surely the money goes to the Slovenian phone company

Premium numbers a certain ammount goes to Phone company the rest to the boyz.

Jet Black · 27-01-2013 5:26pm

Google your phone number. Mine is on a web page with thousands of other numbers similar to mine. No hacking involved, just a program that dials numbers starting at 0870000001 going through all the numbers to 0879999999.

WoollyRedHat · 27-01-2013 5:27pm

Pippa Middleton's Arse wrote: »

Cool, send me on your bank details and I'll lodge the money in.

You wouldn't steal a car.

Reamer Fanny · 27-01-2013 5:30pm

TeddyTedson wrote: »

It's a scam, they want you to call it back and you'll be charged an outrageous rate for it. I have no idea where they get our niumbers but don't worry about it. Just don't call it.

They could have a computer program crawling the Internet looking for mobile numbers, ever list anything on DoneDeal or a classified site? Or could be a third party selling your information to them :0

bbsrs · 27-01-2013 5:30pm

Jet Black wrote: »

Google your phone number. Mine is on a web page with thousands of other numbers similar to mine. No hacking involved, just a program that dials numbers starting at 0870000001 going through all the numbers to 0879999999.

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Mines on a list too , ban the Internet and outlaw computers.

Micky Dolenz · 27-01-2013 5:30pm

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

You wouldn't steal a car.

I would if I could download it.

Sleepy · 27-01-2013 5:31pm

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****

jake is right · 27-01-2013 5:33pm

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

Graupel · 27-01-2013 5:34pm

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.

yoyo · 27-01-2013 5:52pm

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

Chorcai · 27-01-2013 5:56pm

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

KyussBishop · 27-01-2013 6:08pm

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.

Autosport · 27-01-2013 6:34pm

Ah shur they didnt leave me out either and gave me a nice wake up call at 7:30am

but i'm an 086 number

bbsrs · 27-01-2013 7:20pm

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

TheUsual · 27-01-2013 7:37pm

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.

ENMcD · 27-01-2013 7:44pm

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!

jack presley · 27-01-2013 7:54pm

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?

Allyall · 27-01-2013 7:58pm

mikemac1 · 27-01-2013 8:04pm

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!

homerjay2005 · 27-01-2013 9:06pm

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

wonder have their accounts been hacked?

ThreeLineWhip · 27-01-2013 9:22pm

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.

ThreeLineWhip · 27-01-2013 9:22pm

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.

bbsrs · 27-01-2013 9:30pm

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.

FouxDaFaFa · 27-01-2013 9:56pm

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.

HoleDigger · 27-01-2013 10:08pm

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!!

Phone calls at night from Slovenian number wtf?

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