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To be suspicious of this call?

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TheBananaStand2 · 23/01/2019 11:29

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?

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Raspberry10 · 23/01/2019 12:24

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

CallMeSirShotsFired · 23/01/2019 12:28

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

LuckyLou7 · 23/01/2019 12:30

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.

WorldofTofuness · 23/01/2019 12:37

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!

WhentheDealGoesDown · 23/01/2019 12:39

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

Tighnabruaich · 23/01/2019 12:41

who-called.co.uk/

HopeGarden · 23/01/2019 12:42

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

greenlynx · 23/01/2019 12:48

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.

ShirleyPhallus · 23/01/2019 12:51

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

Ali1cedowntherabbithole · 23/01/2019 12:52

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.

KitKat1985 · 23/01/2019 12:56

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

hellsbellsmelons · 23/01/2019 12:59

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.

JenniferJareau · 23/01/2019 13:02

Ignore it. Genuine callers will leave a message.

GabsAlot · 23/01/2019 13:10

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

TheLionQueen1 · 23/01/2019 13:14

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 😡

Annonymiss123 · 23/01/2019 13:21

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

This.

IsItThatTimeAgain · 23/01/2019 13:26

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

WhatchaMaCalllit · 23/01/2019 13:28

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.

KrispyKremes · 23/01/2019 13:36

Bluetooth has nothing to do with your number.

Coincidence.

Don't call it back.

Pinkbells · 23/01/2019 13:42

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

TonTonMacoute · 23/01/2019 13:44

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.

KC225 · 23/01/2019 13:51

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.

WorldofTofuness · 23/01/2019 13:51

Have you cancelled the cheque OP?

Justaboy · 23/01/2019 13:55

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.

TheCowboy · 23/01/2019 14:06

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.