Ok then, how does my own telephone number

[EternalOptimist]

spooky

do you own a bunny ?


put your brain-care specialist on danger money

[Diver]

It did it again yesterday...

And dialling the number & getting the engaged tone doesn't update the 1471 thingie...

[Diver]

I reckon it's and

Maybe you have somebody unknown living in your loft

And he's wired up an extension to your phone

Get out now! Get out while you still can! Run!

[bogeyman]

I think you may be right... it did it again yesterday... it's very spooky.

Or is there some magic way of spoofing the calling number?

Must be, otherwise how could one find 001111 as the caller?

This can happen for a number of reasons.

In particular, if someone sends a text message to your landline, and your landline phone is not equipped to display text (only the BT Paragon and Relate models can, I think) then the BT text service will ring you and 'speak' the text.

If you don't pick up the call, your 1471 call log will indicate this call as originating from your own number.

It's happened to me a couple of times.

It's not Nu Lab spies or aliens afaik.

[Bob Dalek]

Stand by for a phone bill for £1,000,000,000,000 and 29p!!!

[expat]

Just got a call from an agent. Usually they show as withheld/private/whatever, but this one showed as coming from +000920333. How did they do that?

[FiveTimes]

This can happen for a number of reasons.

In particular, if someone sends a text message to your landline, and your landline phone is not equipped to display text (only the BT Paragon and Relate models can, I think) then the BT text service will ring you and 'speak' the text.

If you don't pick up the call, your 1471 call log will indicate this call as originating from your own number.

It's happened to me a couple of times.

It's not Nu Lab spies or aliens afaik.

No entirely correct about the display number being your own if someone has sent the house number a text.
The number is a 087x number, and then you get through to the translation.

[Bob Dalek]

I'd cancel the contract. You have just cause. Solicitor's letter, etc. if they get funny about it. OK, solictor's letter is £50 - 100, but better than the horrors of sh*gged billing. I know: I had a saga-like debacle with British Gas (the worthless, worthless, worthless w*nkers), and wish I'd cancelled the moment it all started going wrong.