phone calls for some idiot who gave out my number!!!

MissShal

This is happening to us with our landline number, we moved into the house in June '08 and have had this number since then. It wasn't long before we started having calls for Mr/Mrs Mooney and Mr/Mrs Nolan. The majority were random overseas calls, offering free holidays/offering phone contracts etc and I just assumed it was somebody elses old recycled number that they still had on a database.

More recently however we've had calls from what sounded like a hairdressers, their accountants, a Sky repair man (who sounded like he was outside somewhere, maybe looking for their house?) a local takeaway at 11.30pm and even social services!

I can't figure out why they're giving out our number. I know their address, it's less than a mile away and after a quick look on 192.com it shows that both surnames are listed at the same address. I don't recognise any of the names, so I'm sure it's nothing personal. I just wish they'd sort it out and stop giving out our number :mad:

Vodafone

Hi there

I understand that getting calls like this are not only really annoying but can also be very disruptive for you both. I've experienced a similar thing myself and it drove me crackers until I changed my number.

I wish there was more that we can do for you. Unfortunately as the calls are coming from multiple business rather than an individual you're unlikely to get much progress by reporting it to your local police as you would with a nuisance caller.

If you do find that you would prefer to change your number rather than continue to take the calls and ask them to stop calling, then please feel free to get in touch with me. You can send me an email from here with a link to this thread and your username and I'll action this for you. Make sure you include the code WRT135 in the subject line so that your email comes straight to my team.

Take care

Kirsty
Web Relations Team
Vodafone UK

epatolles

Vodafone_company_representative wrote: »

Hi there

I understand that getting calls like this are not only really annoying but can also be very disruptive for you both. I've experienced a similar thing myself and it drove me crackers until I changed my number.

I wish there was more that we can do for you. Unfortunately as the calls are coming from multiple business rather than an individual you're unlikely to get much progress by reporting it to your local police as you would with a nuisance caller.

If you do find that you would prefer to change your number rather than continue to take the calls and ask them to stop calling, then please feel free to get in touch with me. You can send me an email from here with a link to this thread and your username and I'll action this for you. Make sure you include the code WRT135 in the subject line so that your email comes straight to my team.

Take care

Kirsty
Web Relations Team
Vodafone UK

thanks, im on orange :-( i think i might just hunt her down... strangely i havent got any more calls since starting this thread? maybe she knows im on to her? lol

missymugwump

If it was a personal number I would, but my company have invested heavily in printed stationery so not possible for me to change number ....sadly

z1985m

Kez1983 wrote: »

I got a new company phone 6 months ago and have had a few random texts but tonight received at text from an unknown number saying "Hi ugly. How r u?" I was a bit offended actually!!!

Havent text them back yet to find out who they are!!

i had this happen to me too! not straight away though.. at least a year in. I was getting random txt messages saying things like "bored, what you up to" and other random stuff that i can't even remember now but i never ever replied to them, was very strange. I don't really like to hand my number out to anyone other than people i really know. I got my fiance to phone it one time and my fiance said it sounded like some bloke but didn't get much cos the guy was just saying 'ho' which i'm guesing he must have been saying 'who' because my fiance asked " is john there" god knows why, but he did.

[Deleted User]

I had a similar problem over a year ago with my landline number - At first I was polite and said that the person they were looking for was not at my address or this number or sorry you got the wrong number.

Then the calls started to come at all times of the day and night.

The telephone provider said all they could do was change the number - which I felt was unfair on me, as I too had given the number on job application, etc etc

I got the name of the company calling, and the callers name. I told them that this was harrassment, that I had already explained that the person they were looking for was not at this number hundreds of times, I said I'd already reported them to trading standards and that if they persisted I would report them to the police.

I never heard from them again.

madeforidiots

Why not make an appeal for all Holly Clarkes, or Dennis Nielsons to register their details online and those that give their name address and the correct number matching yours, you can pay them a 'visit'?

Maybe offer a reward to entice them?