Dodgy missed call phone number

picturehangup · 15-11-2018 3:03pm #1

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!

circadian · 15-11-2018 3:03pm

That's the Lotto winners hotline.

bodhrandude · 15-11-2018 3:06pm

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

Gimme A Pound · 15-11-2018 3:07pm

Yeah it's a known dodgy thing:

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

jimgoose · 15-11-2018 3:08pm

Scam. 00882 is Taiwan I think, messers.

Hammer89 · 15-11-2018 3:21pm

jimgoose wrote: »

Scam. 00882 is Taiwan I think, messers.

You must ring a lot of factories.

jimgoose · 15-11-2018 3:22pm

Hammer89 wrote: »

You must ring a lot of factories.

You'd be amazed.

Bio Mech · 15-11-2018 3:25pm

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.

Grayson · 15-11-2018 3:31pm

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

Prominent_Dawg · 15-11-2018 3:33pm

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!

Under His Eye · 15-11-2018 3:34pm

Answer them for the craic.

Hammer89 · 15-11-2018 3:45pm

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.

w/s/p/c/ · 15-11-2018 4:26pm

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....

kenpachi · 15-11-2018 4:29pm

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

milehip · 15-11-2018 10:41pm

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?????

15-11-2018 10:57pm

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!

Prominent_Dawg · 16-11-2018 11:50am

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

murpho999 · 16-11-2018 11:57am

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.

lyoness · 16-11-2018 12:00pm

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

luap_42 · 22-11-2018 9:28pm

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!!