scam caller or safe to answer?

james_smitha

High  5 All,

I've been called by this number  00426191125210

I can't find any thing about it or even close to, would anybody know any thing please?

Thank you

pbartlett

0042 is not  valid country code.

Also:

0042 - Fake Phone Number (UK) - Fake Number

littleboo

It's not "unsafe" to answer,unless you will fall for their lies. Worse case is you hang up.

TadleyBaggie

I bought a TrueCall several years ago, it's stopped 99.9% of the spam calls in their tracks. The odd one that does try to get passed the screening gets manually dropped and blocked,

cattie

I have caller display & get a lot of calls like this. I don't answer any calls from numbers I don't recognise & once the answer phone picks up, the call is usually disconnected pretty quickly. Sometimes they are just computer generated calls, hoping to get a live person  answer the phone.

Chino

pbartlett said:

0042 is not  valid country code.

42 is the country code for Czech Republic, the leading 00 indicating an international number.

Neil_Jones

james_smitha said:

High  5 All,

I've been called by this number  00426191125210

I can't find any thing about it or even close to, would anybody know any thing please?

Thank you

Stop worrying about whether its genuine or where its from or wherever.  If you don't recognise the number don't answer it.  Then forget about it and carry on with whatever you were doing before the phone rang.

pbartlett

actually 00420 is the code and this number is 00426

james_smitha

thank you everyone, I didn't answer the call. On the joint experience here, just as well

iniltous

I’m sure I’m in the minority in that I’ve never had or at least answered a scam call , but TBH , I’d quite like to string one of these scammers along for as long as possible before telling them to **** off,  there is no danger ( as such ) just by answering apart from they will now know it’s a ‘live’ number, they ( or the algorithm) probably ring thousands of invalid or not in service numbers  per day, knowing it a live number may possibly be noted as one to try again sometime 

james_smitha

iniltous  This ‘I’d quite like to string one of these scammers along for as long as possible before telling them to **** off,’

I’ve read of people doing that, It can be a good laugh for one side