Weird event at work - should I do anything?

[Beanzmeanz]

Just that really. So last week I received a call on my personal mobile asking for someone else I didn’t catch what they were saying so asked them to repeat it. It wasn’t a name of anyone in our house - think Harry Jones so I said sorry wrong number.
Just as I was about to hang up I thought the name sounded a bit like someone I work with so I said did you say Barry Stones to which they said yes.
So I said well I work with them but I don’t know how you would get this number. They confirmed who they were (genuine) and that they had called the number of this person’s email footer.
I am bamboozled so I report it to our IT bod.
They ask me if my no. is 07xxx etc which it is and tell me this guy has set his v/m to forward to my mobile.
He doesn’t have my mobile, I’ve never given it to him and we have work mobiles

Editing as I can see you are saying it’s your personal number and is not at all used at all at all.

Why don’t you just ask him?

yes I agree

Did they just confirm he's name after you asked who it was? Sounds like a spam or potentially fraudulent call. I've been getting loads since trying to change my car insurance using go compare and ones similar sites.

Is there a standard footer for your work emails? Is it possible that he copies yours and forgot to update the number to his? Used to happen any time at work when the company decided they wanted everyone's emails to look the same.

@SmudgeButt - the footer on his emails gives his own number but when people call that number, it diverts to the OP’s personal number. The OP’s personal number is nowhere on his email, and she has never given him her personal number anyway. Hence the mystery.

What is your plan of action OP?

@Dawnb19 how would a scammer re-set Barry's phone divert?

Do you have an apple work phone?

If you use your Apple ID in your work phone, this is possible.

Does his email signature format copy yours? Why I ask is that everyone in our organisation had to standardise their email signature, we mostly copied somebody else's signature and amended the details. Perhaps he did the same, copied your format, and forgot to change your mobile number?

Please read my reply to @SmudgeButt above. Never mind, to save you the trouble, here is what I (and many other posters) have explained (in different words) in earlier posts:

The footer on his emails gives his own number but when people call that number, it diverts to the OP’s personal number. The OP’s personal number is nowhere on his email, and she has never given him her personal number anyway. Hence the mystery.

I know you might feel a bit uncomfortable OP, because of him being high up in the company, but remember you have done nothing wrong and you’re well within your rights to make sure this is looked into (either by IT, HR or by ‘Barry’ himself).
Maybe put it into writing tomorrow, in an email to HR/IT – that way there is a paper trail.

Barry is toast tomorrow.

Yeah now we’re getting to the crux of the matter.

It’s very obviously not an innocent error!

Was he flirtatious at the social meet? Men are notorious for doing things like this to initiate a conversation. Knowing you’ll approach and ask how it happened and then he’ll say “whoops” and hope that he can now message you on your personal mobile to say “sorry” and hope it leads onto something more.

Trick as old as time, especially for manipulative older men who are higher up in a company.

Report it. Officially. Not to him

Do you have your own work phone number (the one on your header) set to forward to your personal mobile?

Actually, never mind, I was going to assume that maybe your work phone number was similar to his (and that was what was misdialed, but I think you’ve said that the IT department have confirmed that his actual work number was definitely diverting to your mobile number?

Also, how do you set the forward, is it something that you have to do on the phone itself or is it something you do through a browser?

Bingo!

And it’s a shame so many women on here are gaslighting her into thinking it was an innocent work error.

She clearly stated it was her personal mobile number. So yeah, he’s taken a liking to her at the work social the day before and now done this dumb stunt to initiate her contacting him.

Typical pervy male higher colleague.

Following the party, he has accessed your HR records to find out more info about you. Then, he made a mistake which led to the call that brought the matter to your attention.

I think that this is serious and that the flippant “just ask him” comments constitute poor advice. HR needs to deal with it.

You shouldn’t have to put up with workplace sleazeballs. I’m sorry.

Agreed.

I'm not sure exactly how he got OP's personal number but I'm pretty confident it's an attention seeking move. If he has accessed confidential records I hope he is appropriately disciplined. It would be an extraordinarily stupid thing for him to do when he could have diverted to her work mobile and had the same effect. That would not make it OK but he would have found it easier to explain the "error".

I think the "just ask him" comments are coming from people who have not understood the issue. There seems to be an unusual amount of posters who haven't read the thread or just have poor reading comprehension.

This is quite a stretch

Could it be he was trying to forward his work phone to his personal number and accidentally entered your number? This could be either your number is 1 digit different, as and it was a fluke typo, or somehow he has your number and accidently typed it in.

if it’s the first, you can laugh it off. If it’s the latter, it needs taking further to ascertain how he got your number and why he saved it.

I was thinking this too! You need to ask him Op!

Pull your big girl pants on and talk to the man!

But he's already spoken to her at least twice this week. Why does he need an icebreaker? Particularly one that could get him into trouble at work if he has done something illegal or inappropriate . It just doesn't make sense that he has done this deliberately.

He got your personal number then tried to call you from his work phone whilst drunk, accidentally rang his own VM without realising the proceed to dial OP, but instead ended up changing his VM forward deets to OP number instead.

Yeah right

Google your own name. Does anything come up with your telephone number on, that he might have seen if he’d googled you?