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Not to trust a 14 digit mobile number.

47 replies

HotSince82 · 26/10/2019 12:24

Posting here for traffic;
DD has been invited to a sleepover by somebody in her class, she is almost eleven and in year 6.
She has had a fractious relationship with this girl, they seemingly oscillate between best friends and worst enemies, currently in a best friends phase.
The girl lives with her Dad, no particular issue with this, I've met him a few times at athletics events/school events and he seems perfectly pleasant, if a little eager to come across as a 'nice guy/good dad'
Anyway I have agreed to the sleepover but his mobile number is fourteen digits long and won't accept my text messages. I can call the number and he will pick up but it makes me uneasy.....
Reading this back I feel barking mad but I have never coma across this before. When I mentioned it to him he said 'oh thats strange' and asked me just to call him instead.
I should add that I don't know where they live, apparently he is staying at his brother's home whilst sorting out his divorce and he has given me an address to collect DD from tomorrow but he wasn't precisely sure of it until he double checked it on a letter which again makes me uneasy.

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TheQueef · 26/10/2019 12:25

Is it the country code?

PocketMoneyMonster · 26/10/2019 12:26

What sort of number is it?

HotSince82 · 26/10/2019 12:27

Mobile number

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ClaudiaWankleman · 26/10/2019 12:27

Does it begin with 0044?

PocketMoneyMonster · 26/10/2019 12:28

Yes, but how does it start? What digits?

TheQueef · 26/10/2019 12:28

Or 0033 0034 etc.

HotSince82 · 26/10/2019 12:28

No, 07747

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JonSlow · 26/10/2019 12:28

What are the first few digits? 07 or 0044 style?

Naranja · 26/10/2019 12:28

Surely it’s not the mobile number that’s the issue but more the fact you don’t know where they’ll actually be and you have to pick her up from a random address? That’s very weird??

HotSince82 · 26/10/2019 12:29

Its just your typical number with three extra digits

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SafetyAdvice0FeedWhenAgitated · 26/10/2019 12:30

It starts with 0044, doesn't it. Just change the 00 into + or put 0 instead.
For example
00447771112233
+447771112233
07771112233

SafetyAdvice0FeedWhenAgitated · 26/10/2019 12:30

Oh. X posted. I don't get what you mean about extra 3 digits then

HotSince82 · 26/10/2019 12:30

Hes sent me a text detailing the day he has planned for them, eg laser quest, ice cream, carving pumpkins and I will be sending her with my mums phone as I havent let her have her own just yet.

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HotSince82 · 26/10/2019 12:31

So for example it is 07747535074835

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MissLadyM · 26/10/2019 12:31

Sounds dodgy to me!

AHintOfStyle · 26/10/2019 12:33

Have you googled the number?

TheQueef · 26/10/2019 12:33

Hmm no idea then. 07 is the mobile network.
Can you not reply to his text?

covetingthepreciousthings · 26/10/2019 12:34

The mobile thing sounds bizarre enough..

But I think this is the bit I'd be more concerned about -
*
I should add that I don't know where they live, apparently he is staying at his brother's home whilst sorting out his divorce and he has given me an address to collect DD from tomorrow but he wasn't precisely sure of it until he double checked it on a letter which again makes me uneasy.*

So he didn't know the address that he's staying at? Confused

HotSince82 · 26/10/2019 12:35

Yes, googled it and there are no matches.
No, I can't reply to him but he can text me and if I call the number it rings. He's not on wattsapp either.

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ThreeLittleDots · 26/10/2019 12:37

Hmm, I'd make an excuse for her not to go TBH

HotSince82 · 26/10/2019 12:37

covetingthepreciousthings

Yes those were my thoughts too...
So I asked DD about her friends living arrangements and she verified that yes, friend is staying at her auntie and uncle's house following the split.

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MrsMaiselsMuff · 26/10/2019 12:38

07747 is a standard mobile dialling code, the numbers are ten digits long. When you dial the number it works because it is dialling the first ten digits, it ignores anything after that. Have you tried texting the first ten digits?

HotSince82 · 26/10/2019 12:40

No, will try that now though. Its still strange that when he texts me it is fourteen digits long though.

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TheQueef · 26/10/2019 12:41

Are they from outside the UK?

BaronessBomburst · 26/10/2019 12:42

So if he texts you it shows as a 14 digit number?