To be suspicious of this call?

[TheBananaStand2]

I just missed a call from a number I don’t know. I’m travelling on a train, that just went through a town that I don’t live in, and that, as far as I know, is not home to any people I know or services I use. The missed call was from a number with this town’s area code. I just noticed Bluetooth is on on my phone, which it isn’t, usually. AIBU to think that somehow my number got sent over the network as I passed through this town on the train, and now I’m getting spam calls? I googled the number: no results. They didn’t leave a message, either. Has this ever happened to anyone else?

That’s really not possible. Just google the number and block it.

Or perhaps - and call me crazy! - the called simply dialled the wrong number?

My phone flags up possible fraud/scam calls. As others have said though, if it was important, they would have left a message, if not, probably a sales call. Your number won't have been distributed by Bluetooth though.

Blimey. It's all I can do to get my arse in gear to keep in touch with people I actually know (and not even many of them). No way would I be making more work for myself!

I never answer any call I don’t recognise on my mobile or home phone, if it is important they will leave a message, there was a thread recently about someone answering an unknown number and they got thousands of spam messages and had to get a new number

who-called.co.uk/

If it’s a genuine caller, they’d either leave a message or call you back later.

I don’t answer unknown number as well, could be spam or could be wrong number, but in both situations I don’t bother . I do answer “no caller id “ as it usually NHS calls.

The OP already googled it and didn’t get results! Read the OP people!

I just don’t answer. I’m not obliged to and if it’s important the caller will leave a message or call me back.

Just ignore. If it was genuine they would have left a message or will call back.

Don't ever call back.
It cost huge amounts per minute by scammers.
Just ignore.
As others say, if it's important they would leave a voicemail.
I never answer calls that aren't from people I know.

Ignore it. Genuine callers will leave a message.

just block it -dont ever call a number back u dont know thats how scammers work

Yes this has happened to me! I was in a town about an hour away and got a call from a local number, I'd missed it but called it back because was worried I'd left something somewhere or something like that and was just a sales call! They're getting very clever 😡

If it's important they will leave you a message or text you

This.

Hey OP...have you by any chance tried googling the number? 🤣

It's probably a call from someone in that town for someone else and they transposed two digits of their phone number with yours. No big deal. If you didn't get a message and they haven't phoned back, don't panic.

Bluetooth has nothing to do with your number.

Coincidence.

Don't call it back.

If it was important they'll leave a message or call back. Google the number.

I assume a genuine caller would leave a message so I ignore if I don't know the number

^^ This, plus Googling the number for extra reassurance is really all that's needed.

There is a scam been widely reported here in Sweden that your phone rings once or twice from an unknown number on the hopes you will call back at a premium rate. I make calls back to blighty so have lots of dialling codes. Last week I had two ring calls from Mali and Morocco - neither left messages or texts and I don't know people living in or visiting either. I would just leave it.

Have you cancelled the cheque OP?

FWIW...

Be wary of phoning some numbers back espcially and 09 and 070 numbers they ask you to call back, keep you chatting for a while and the call cost is some pounds per miniute!

Checl BT call rates if you want to see.

I don't think the OP gives a flip about who the caller is. Their concerns was around whether Bluetooth is secure and whether it could leave you open to spam calls. A fair question, I'd say, that seems to have been answered.