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Dodgy missed call phone number

  • 15-11-2018 03:03PM
    #1
    picturehangup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 429 ✭✭


    Just missed a call from 0088213535245.
    Doesn't look like a number I'd call back in a hurry.
    Anyone recognise it? Assuming it is a scam.
    Many thanks!


Comments

  • #2
    circadian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,321 ✭✭✭circadian


    That's the Lotto winners hotline.


  • #3
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,810 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    I got a missed call yesterday too but slightly different number +88213636245.

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



  • #4
    Gimme A Pound
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,482 ✭✭✭Gimme A Pound


    Yeah it's a known dodgy thing:

    https://www.boards.ie/ttfthread/2057926110/1#post108545289


  • #5
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,196 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    Scam. 00882 is Taiwan I think, messers.


  • #6
    Hammer89
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,003 ✭✭✭Hammer89


    jimgoose wrote: »
    Scam. 00882 is Taiwan I think, messers.

    You must ring a lot of factories.


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  • #7
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,196 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    Hammer89 wrote: »
    You must ring a lot of factories.

    You'd be amazed.


  • #8
    Bio Mech
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,046 ✭✭✭Bio Mech


    its legit, call it back on two mobiles phones at the same time just to be safe. Top up call credit if needed just before.

    EDIT: dont do the above.


  • #9
    Grayson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,686 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    When I was in the US I got a US sim. I got about 3-4 spam calls a day.


  • #10
    Prominent_Dawg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 986 ✭✭✭Prominent_Dawg


    I got a missed call the other day from 00 32 463 04 13 17 a Belgium number, I’ve recently had other ones from Ascension Island and Zimbabwe, just block them!


  • #11
    Under His Eye
    Closed Accounts Posts: 907 ✭✭✭Under His Eye


    Answer them for the craic.


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  • #12
    Hammer89
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,003 ✭✭✭Hammer89


    Prominent_Dawg wrote: »
    I got a missed call the other day from 00 32 463 04 13 17 a Belgium number, I’ve recently had other one from Ascension Island and Zimbabwe, just block them!

    As far as scamming goes they're a level above the rest.


  • #13
    w/s/p/c/
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 468 ✭✭w/s/p/c/


    picturehangup wrote: »
    Just missed a call from 0088213535245.
    Doesn't look like a number I'd call back in a hurry.
    Anyone recognise it? Assuming it is a scam.
    Many thanks!

    Its obviously a time traveller making call from an Eircell Ready to Go phone from 1998, I definitely think you should answer if they call back, they may have important information about the future....


  • #14
    kenpachi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36 ✭kenpachi


    Hammer89 wrote: »
    As far as scamming goes they're a level above the rest.

    I've had 2 from there in the past, Ascension Island that is.

    Djibouti a few times too :D:D:D


  • #15
    milehip
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 735 ✭✭✭milehip


    w/s/p/c/ wrote: »
    picturehangup wrote: »
    Just missed a call from 0088213535245.
    Doesn't look like a number I'd call back in a hurry.
    Anyone recognise it? Assuming it is a scam.
    Many thanks!

    Its obviously a time traveller making call from an Eircell Ready to Go phone from 1998, I definitely think you should answer if they call back, they may have important information about the future....


    Then why would they be ringing from the past?????


  • #16
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 31,118 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I had a few calls the other day, I assumed that they were all scam calls, but one was work related...
    I got an email saying he couldn't contact me. DOH!


  • #17
    Prominent_Dawg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 986 ✭✭✭Prominent_Dawg


    I got another one this morning from Switzerland, why have these become so common?


  • #18
    murpho999
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,716 ✭✭✭✭murpho999


    Under His Eye wrote: »
    Answer them for the craic.

    You can't answer them.

    They auto hang up after ringing with the idea being that you call them back at exorbitant premium rates.


  • #19
    lyoness
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 215 ✭✭lyoness


    Prominent_Dawg wrote: »
    I got another one this morning from Switzerland, why have these become so common?

    me too - after getting a couple of those 088 numbers earlier in the week


  • #20
    luap_42
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 175 ✭✭luap_42


    A friend got one from a 00882 number last week. She also got one from a Swiss number.

    I got one from a different 00882 number this week.

    I've checked around, and the prevalence is increasing everywhere. Ireland, UK, Germany, NZ, Australia, US, etc. It seems the problem is definitely global and getting worse all the time.

    There are many different 00882 numbers being used. Also many other country codes are being used. Sometimes the number is spoofed, so you can't even tell where it really originates.

    It's the "Missed Call", "One Ring", Wangiri scam. Do NOT Ring back! The numbers are always premium cost lines. You would be charged a high initial call cost plus high cost per minute.

    Worse still, I couldn't even block the number, it said it was an invalid number!!


  • #21
    Hammer89
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,003 ✭✭✭Hammer89


    lyoness wrote: »
    me too - after getting a couple of those 088 numbers earlier in the week

    Looks like somebody called you from 1998.


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  • #22
    refusetolose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,559 ✭✭✭refusetolose


    got one from sweden and one from finland in the past week


  • #23
    DJIMI TRARORE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,786 ✭✭✭DJIMI TRARORE


    0049 one here,as i live in Cavan i misread it as 049,they hung up immediately:its a german number


  • #24
    fryup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    we want to transfer the monies.........:D

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inbwbPeXRho


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