Reply to: Ok then, how does my own telephone number

[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.

[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.

[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?

[Bob Dalek]

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

[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.

[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!

[Diver]

It did it again yesterday...

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

[EternalOptimist]

spooky

do you own a bunny ?


put your brain-care specialist on danger money

[Advocate]

I believe this sometimes happens when they're adding the listening device in the telephone exchange.

They never remove them....

[NickFitz]

I tried dialling the number but it gives the engaged tone... which deepens the mystery a little.

It is NTL Hell, so anything is possible.

Probably the s playing around again.

Yes, but 1471 will still give you the last number that called, whether it got the engaged tone or not. In this case, it's yours.

Was the cat trying to mess with your head out of revenge for the trip to the vet's, maybe?

[voodooflux]

Do you have the 1571 voicemail service from BT Zeity? If so, it can call you if someone has left a voice message while the line was busy. That call appears to arrive via your own number according to caller-id, so it may also register as the last number received when you dial 1471. Although you'd think that the 1471 system would be clever enough to filter it out...

EDIT: forget all that - just noticed you're on NTL.

[cailin maith]

I tried dialling the number but it gives the engaged tone... which deepens the mystery a little.
It is NTL Hell, so anything is possible.

Probably the s playing around again.

Thats cos you are already on the line....

[derekthedalek]

Come on Mr zeitghost. You should know this. Think.

[Diver]

end up on 1471?

This happened yesterday...

While I was out.

You are Wilmslow and I claim my free Banjo

[cailin maith]

end up on 1471?

This happened yesterday...

While I was out.