Rational explanation - there must be

[Nosecco]

Does anyone know if it's possible to have a phone number that doesn't have a voice mail but instead has a prompt for you to leave messages for certain listed numbers?
This happened to me recently when I dialled a number my husband had mistakenly called out as mine when ordering food on my phone. I let it slide for a few months but curiosity overcame me last week.
I dialled the number to enter its mailbox. A prompt came on asking to enter the number of the person you wish to leave a message for. I tried my own number but it said "sorry that number is not listed".
Next just being curious and paranoid, I tried a friend's number who I had issues with before and I told my husband bout it. I found her very flirty and always wanting to hang out with us 3 not just me and her.
Anyway it went straight to her voicemail.
And now I'm sad, angry, confused, upset. I'm also 7 months pregnant. I don't want a stressful argument on anything I can't prove.
I just feel like my heart is breaking thinking of all the worst case scenarios but surely there could be a rational, logical explanation.

Do you work for the Sun, OP? They were into phone hacking, too. It's still illegal, though.

It sounds like an office or workplace number with various extensions? Have you tried googling the number ? Sorry if that's too obvious but some people don't know you can do that. It will often bring up the 'owner' of the phone number.

Yes there’s an app called Slydial that lets you do this.

He called out the number as yours? So he uses it a lot then.

Just so I’m understanding properly.

A few months ago you asked your husband to call out your number and he called out this other one by accident (does he know he did that? If so how did he explain that number being stored under your name?)

So you called the number and it gave you an option to enter another phone number to leave a message?

Joxer yes that’s how i understood the OP.

So with Slydial (or there are a few other similar apps) your DH will have been given a phone number - (the one he has memorised and called out to you).

He can choose 10 of his contacts, let’s say your friend was one of the numbers he chose... Slydial will forward the call to her number/voicemail.

If you were to check his phone, your friends number would not show up in his list of dialled numbers - the number that would show up instead is the number that Slydial allocated to him.

Something obviously made you think of your ex friend as the possible contact. That’s your gut instinct at work. You already knew something was up. You just didn’t know you knew.

So could I leave her a voice message from that number myself when I get through to it? Would they know that I know then?

Check the itemised mobile bills, if he is calling that number a fair bit it will show on there repeatedly

That number being a ‘slydial’ Number or whatever app it is. As you know nothing about this number , to me it shows he’s up to no good unless he uses some weird system for work like this

@SlightlyMisplacedSingleDad no, but how would that be a way of hacking my phone? The number I dialled led to my friend's voicemail. I'm confused.