I've just had a call on my mobile (it must be a blue moon, 'cos I switched it on). It was an automated voice telling it was a call for 'my name', that then terminated.
It was immediately followed by a call from the same number to my landline. The other 'phones on my landline continued ringing after I'd answered. The call terminated.
I've googled the number and all that brings up is loads of companies offering to tell me where it's from (for a fee no doubt). Say-no-to-0870 doesn't list it.
I guess it's a scam of some sort. Anyone else experienced it?
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The first google hit for that number is this:
whocallsme.com/Phone-Number.aspx/08454019112
Which is not a charged for service, and states that it is indeed a Satander number, as R.P. suggests.
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Had calls from them - My wife has an account with them, I had an ISA.
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Seems like it is Santander, one call to my mobile lasted long enough to ask me 'press any button to return this call'. I never do that!
Coincidentally I've subsequently found my landline's playing up. No dial tone and I can't dial out, but curiously, interweb thingmy's OK.
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So something's wrong in the exchange with the phone connection for your line. The line obviously is connected to the exchange and a link is going to the ADSL infrastructure. But the phone bit is not connected perhaps?
Or could it be the phone(s) in the house. Have you tried a phone directly into the master socket?
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>>Have you tried a phone directly into the master socket?
Yup, done that.
BT are admitting there's a fault, with an 'expected repair by: Mon 24 Dec 17:00'.
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If your phone line is faulty then you might, if you don't already have a copy, be interested in page 10 of their code of practice. It looks as if you can ask them to divert your number to a mobile for the duration and they'll pay (something) towards any extra expense whilst the divert is on.
www.btplc.com/thegroup/regulatoryandpublicaffairs/codeofpractice/consumercodeofpractice/btresidentialcodeofpractice.pdf
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>> Seems like it is Santander, one call to my mobile lasted long enough to ask
>> me 'press any button to return this call'. I never do that!
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I've had similar with Santander but the opening spiel was explicitly from the fraud department. In both cases it was caused by genuine transactions out of my normal profile setting off alarms. In one case two purchases of laptops in quick succession (Mrs B and Miss B) and the other hotels/meals in Sheffield - sorting Miss B at Uni.
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A while back our phone line was faulty, the phone did not work but the broadband was fine. After checking from a junction box a few streets away, and working towards my house, checking at several points, with me reporting which lights were on or off on a test box in my house when phoned on my mobile by the phone engineer, the fault was found in the line from the junction box under the pavement outside the house. I had visions of my block paved driveway being dug up but apparently there is an eight way cable fitted of which only two wires are used so I was switched to a different pair and all was well.
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We had much the same in the old place - my neighbour, a BT engineer (proper qualified guy) told me that that t'internet is a lot more tolerant than voice stuff.
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Thanks Crankcase, I was aware of that and had already diverted calls.
RP. my neighbour, a BT engineer (proper qualified guy). Have you read my profile? Any more comments like that and you'll be seeing red, scowly faces. ;>)
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>> RP. my neighbour, a BT engineer (proper qualified guy).
>> Have you read my profile?
(sound of penny dropping) hence the moniker!
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The circumstances were that a steel pillar had been vandalized at the top of our lane - he reckoned that one of two wires leading to out house had been disconnected thus the loss of voice services - the other wire was still connected and was still providing a full hit on the broadband. His comment was that the broadband side of stuff was far more resilient to this sort of problem than the telephone side of the supply...he fixed it with no fuss.
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Strange 'phone calls, 08454019112 - R.P.
