Scam from 0787 number?

Hi all

Today my housephone rang, and it said "you have a text message" etc, when it reads them out - press 1 to listen to the message.

I listened, and it said something like the following: "If a customer was sitting next to you on a train, would you expect them to talk to you?" then it said something unintelligable about a banking advisor.

The number was an 0787 number, which I called back but it rang and rang, so I hung up thinking it might be a scam. What worries me is that my other half is a banking advisor; bit creepy - we're ex directory but we have had a couple of marketing calls, and calls from a debt collection agency (for the guy who used to live here). The debt collection people send texts too but it's a landline number then.

Every scam call mention I've seen online though, when mobile type numbers, only seems to be the 070 ones, not 078.

Should I be worried? Is there anything I can do to check? If I ring BT could they tell me right now on my account whether it was a premium rate number? I'm wondering if it might have been one of those where it plays a ring-tone back to you but it's really connected to a premium line...

Advice welcomed
thanks
Matt

Comments

  • Heinz
    Heinz Posts: 11,191 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker Car Insurance Carver!
    I'd never have called back but, rest assured, all 0787 numbers are standard mobile numbers and, from a BT landline, cost 12½p/minute daytime and 7½p/minute evenings/nights to call - see HERE.
    Time has moved on (much quicker than it used to - or so it seems at my age) and my previous advice on residential telephony has been or is now gradually being overtaken by changes in the retail market. Hence, I have now deleted links to my previous 'pearls of wisdom'. I sincerely hope they helped save some of you money.
  • Joonyer
    Joonyer Posts: 45 Forumite
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    Wow I'm a tool - if only I'd listened a little longer I'd have heard my sister in law's voicemail kick in.

    I SO overreacted to that! Felt like I was a teenager getting prank calls again. How embarassing.

    Thanks for your quick and detailed response though, much appreciated!

    Matt
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