Scam calls from my own mobile

ddooris

I have just checked my phone bill and looks like I have called this number 0855

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over 20 times in the last month. I called my provider and was told it was probably a scam but my calls are included in my bundle so they cannot get anything. Very concerned what do I do?

AlmightyCushion

The 5 after the 085 indicates it's a voicemail you are calling.

petes

Stalk much?

mrmorgan

this reminds me of this Brilliant story

https://metro.co.uk/2014/04/11/virgin-media-ann-and-ron-hayward-refuse-to-pay-bill-in-tv-porn-row-4695892/

Sorry i couldn't resist

El Weirdo

ddooris wrote: »

I have just checked my phone bill and looks like I have called this number 0855

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over 20 times in the last month. I called my provider and was told it was probably a scam but my calls are included in my bundle so they cannot get anything. Very concerned what do I do?

Dialing that number would just get you straight through to the voicemail of 085

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JeffKenna

I rang and no one answered.

Damien360

El Weirdo wrote: »

Dialing that number would just get you straight through to the voicemail of 085

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And the vast majority of people have the basic 0000 passcode on their voicemail so it’s easy to “hack” from any other number (as the UK press liked to put it when getting celeb messages)

ddooris

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

The 5 after the 085 indicates it's a voicemail you are calling.

Provider said its a foreign number but does look like calling voice mail, just find it hard to believe they cannot do anything about it or advise me on it.

ddooris

JeffKenna wrote: »

I rang and no one answered.

Great thanks was afraid to call it

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

ddooris wrote: »

I have just checked my phone bill and looks like I have called this number 0855

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over 20 times in the last month. I called my provider and was told it was probably a scam but my calls are included in my bundle so they cannot get anything. Very concerned what do I do?

It's your aleter ego calling the Fight Club.

Case in point:

El Weirdo wrote: »

Dialing that number would just get you straight through to the voicemail of 085

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JeffKenna wrote: »

I rang and no one answered.

Fr_Dougal

+855 is Cambodia

Alun

ddooris wrote: »

Provider said its a foreign number but does look like calling voice mail, just find it hard to believe they cannot do anything about it or advise me on it.

Looks like someone either trying to hack your voicemail trying different passcodes, or someone, possibly someone you know, actually accessing your voicemail using the default passcode if you haven't changed it.

Normally you'd access your voicemail from your own mobile by dialling 171, and only use the method of inserting a '5' after the 08x part if you wanted to access your voicemail from another mobile phone or landline.

Ken.

Mod-I've removed the number op. You really don't want the AH weirdos having your number.

ddooris

Nosnon wrote: »

Mod-I've removed the number op. You really don't want the AH weirdos having your number.

Its ok it is not my number, just on my phone bill that I seemed to call alot.

ddooris

Alun wrote: »

Looks like someone either trying to hack your voicemail trying different passcodes, or someone, possibly someone you know, actually accessing your voicemail using the default passcode if you haven't changed it.

Normally you'd access your voicemail from your own mobile by dialling 171, and only use the method of inserting a '5' after the 08x part if you wanted to access your voicemail from another mobile phone or landline.

If they were hacking my voicemail it would be my phone number but its not.

ddooris

ddooris wrote: »

If they were hacking my voicemail it would be my phone number but its not.

Flipin hell :mad::mad: I have just figured it out I signed up to new provider 6 months ago but I kept the packet from the sim and just checked it and its that number ... but I transferred my old number.

You think Eir would have known this when I called. :mad: