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d.ross_2

maninthestreet wrote: »

07 numbers are personal numbers.

070 numbers are premium rate

Gimp0r

The second message looks like one from a bedside phone, Like the patientline tv/phone things, You can put a few numbers in and it will send text messages to them to let them know how to contact you when you are in the hospital

http://www.patientline.co.uk/patient/visitor-info/using-a-service/

"Use our great Friends and Family service. Let us know the numbers of your friends and well send them a message telling them you're in hospital, and giving them your bedside phone number. Its FREE and you can do it as often as you like. You'll find it on the screen where you can do it yourself, or call our Customer Care Team for free, and they'll do it for you."

Are you sure you don't know this person?

chou_123

I don't know anybody who lives in or near Oldham, but it looks as if I have made a mistake if that is a patientline phone number.

maninthestreet

d.ross wrote: »

070 numbers are premium rate

No, they are PERSONAL numbers, costing up to 50p/min from a UK land line. Not cheap, but not as expensive as PREMIUM rate numbers.

hollydays

For your peace of mind could you speak to the hospital concerned and check if this IS one of their personal ward phone numbers? It would be a shame if a person in hospital HAD genuinly been trying to send a message.Yes,many hospitals use these 07 numbers and they are blummin expensive.Maybe they specified a time because the phone is a shared one eg the ward phone.That seems a logical sequence of events to me.

d.ross_2

maninthestreet wrote: »

No, they are PERSONAL numbers, costing up to 50p/min from a UK land line. Not cheap, but not as expensive as PREMIUM rate numbers.

I didn't say they were business numbers. If they were then the scam wouldn't work, as it would be easy to trace the business. However it is a premium rate number that the person holding the number makes money from each time you call it.

So without all the nit picking, it is essentially a premium rate number scam. These are actually very common now, as you will see if you do a bit of research.

nothingabout

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d.ross_2

nothingabout wrote: »

Hi all. sorry for offtopic, but maybe somebody knows about SEO on .ru domains?

.ru domains are from Russia (the home of dodgy scams)

DCFC79

nothingabout wrote: »

Hi all. sorry for offtopic, but maybe somebody knows about SEO on .ru domains?

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