0705 numbers

dramaqueen1973

Hi

A 0705 number keeps calling my mobile and i keep missing it!!! I tried to ring it back the first time and it rang and at the end it said sorry the person cannot take your call but a text message has been sent to them!

Made a mental note to keep phone by me but it rang when i was driving so could not answer it and they are not leaving any messages!

got no idea who they are or what they want.

any ideas??

Optimist

Just leave it if they really want you they will call again. I believe the 0705 numbers are premium rate numbers anyway so possibly a scam to get you to call them.

Dickieburd

I don't know about 0705 numbers being premium rate, but my landlord has a mobile number code 07050 he said he keeps his old mobile number so people can get in touch.

By the way 0705 used to be the geographic code for Portsmouth / Gosport / Havant / Waterlooville areas in Hampshire which changed to 01705 then to 02392, so ends the history lesson :rotfl:.

Optimist

Dickieburd wrote: »

I don't know about 0705 numbers being premium rate, but my landlord has a mobile number code 07050 he said he keeps his old mobile number so people can get in touch.

By the way 0705 used to be the geographic code for Portsmouth / Gosport / Havant / Waterlooville areas in Hampshire which changed to 01705 then to 02392, so ends the history lesson :rotfl:.

I could be wrong about it being premium, it would seem to be some sort of personal number. However thanks for the history lesson I'm sure such information will come in useful at some point (or not) mmmm :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

derrick

070 numbers are personal numbers and can cost up to £1.50 a minute to call. DON'T call it, if they want you they will call back.

wantmemoney

could be wrong but I believe there are no mobile numbers beginning 070
070 are "personal numbers" and are used in a lot of "revenue share" scams.

http://www.ofcom.org.uk/media/news/2007/02/nr_20070213b

070 personal numbers Ofcom is also taking specific action to prevent scams on 070 ‘personal numbers’, which are often confused with mobile numbers. Ofcom will end 070 personal numbering allocations from the end of 2007.
In July 2006 Ofcom set out its decision to introduce a pre-call announcement of call charges for any 070 calls above a certain price. This requirement will apply if an 070 call costs more than 20 pence (per minute or per call). Ofcom intends this requirement to apply to calls from all lines and is seeking to confirm this by a change to General Condition 17, on which there will now be a short consultation.
The deadline for responses to Ofcom's proposals for amending General Condition 17 is 14 March 2007 - see Related Items for the full document.

dramaqueen1973

Thanks for all your replies:j

I wont call it and funny they have not called me again either!!!!!

[Deleted User]

It's akin to the old junk mail companies used to send round:

YOUVE WON A PRIZE! CALL 0891 123456 TO CLAIM*






*Calls cost £15000.00 per minute. Calls last up to 10 years. Prize will either be a biro, an old aspirin, or 3oz of lard.

trickidicki

More of verging on the illegal scam with 0706 number. I paste part of my (probably futile) complaint to ICSTIS or PpP or whatever they now call themselves.
(ICSTIS)This is what we know about the number you entered (07061740805).
We do not have any specific information about this number at present. However we can tell you the following.
This is classified as being used for Personal Numbers.
It is provided by Hotchilli Communications Ltd.
Above number, 07061740805, rang my mobile 07986******, twice, one ring only, around 1300hrs, 04112007. I recognised the number as personal, not, I suggest, as most would, as a mobile. On outside chance it might be hospital, etc, I called from BT line and heard their very helpful message 50+p/min, that I knew, or poss 51+p FIXED FEE, that I didn't know. GOOD SCAM - millions of autodialler quick cut-off ring outs, percentage call back at 30p(say) collected? I have no idea what 07061740805 might be - perhaps you could ask Hotchilli Communications Ltd.

awagg

A May 2008 update to this thread (purely because I couldn't find anything on the internet with regard to this specific number; but I suspect it is exactly the same thing).

On 20/05/2008 at 1822 I recieved a 'one tone' from 07053500466. The call was clearly never meant to be answered as it rang off extremely quickly.

The annoying thing is that I have had the same number for 10 years and never had any problems before moving to Orange at the beginning of this month. I have since (and we are talking in the last fortnight here) heard from 3 different marketing organisations. The first day I was with Orange I asked them to lock the privacy of my number and not to make it available to their directory or any other marketing sources. I have been told this has been done.

I last 'ported' my number 19 months ago from Vodafone to Tmobile and didn't experience any problems as a result.
I can't help but feel as if this time, somehow, in the porting process my treasured number has been released to some sort of public forum of scam artists and tele marketing monkeys that for some reason get paid to reel off a succession of either lies, miss-information, or for some reason know less than I do on the chosen topic and insist on hammering home their points without actually engaging in conversation and consideration of any response or comment to their chosen points.

These businesses are honestly doing nothing but hold back civilisation and give those that actually care about anything they do yet one more hurdle of idiocy to contend with.