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Thread ID: 122278	2011-12-13 01:04:00	Anonymous phone calls	micky (7329)	PC World Chat

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1248336	2011-12-13 01:04:00	We are getting Anonymous phone calls had 3 last night comes up with 641108 no one speaks or answers usually early evening up until 9.00pm. We have the phone bundled with Slingshot do I call Telecom? with this inquiry?	micky (7329)
1248337	2011-12-13 01:17:00	Most likely a computer making random calls between two preset numbers. If that is the case, it will be noting which numbers are active and when they are answered and at a later date you might get a human sales call. Of course that might not be what it is either. I get these sorts of calls 24/7. There will be a series of calls say between 6pm and 10pm, no one there, caller display comes up as unknown or all 0's. If you ignore it, same thing happens tomorrow and again day after etc, then they change there calling time to 10pm to 1am. Very annoying when that number is supposed to be only available to the emergency services.	PinoyKiw (9675)
1248338	2011-12-13 02:17:00	You report them to your Phone company - who in your case isn't Telecom. You need to record dates and times they occurred, they won't care until there is at least 4 of them, and they have to have occurred within 7 days of you calling. It doesn't matter whether you can see the number or not. One thing - I have noticed rather a lot of lag before the Your PC scam starts these days...did you wait long enough after answering?	pctek (84)
1248339	2011-12-13 03:07:00	This in the newspaper (www.odt.co.nz) (ODT) Fri, 9 Dec 2011 News: National A phone scam doing the rounds appears to have little point - other than to annoy people. Telecom confirmed the scam was "prolific'' in New Zealand and Australia and involved multiple calls being made to certain numbers over a certain period, often several months. People answer the phone to hear someone saying "hello, hello'' in heavily accented English before the caller hangs up. Sometimes no one says anything, and the caller hangs up as soon as there is an answer. One man reported hearing a rooster crowing in the background while a woman said "hello, hello, hello''. A Telecom spokesman said the calls were made from computers and it was possible companies simply wanted to keep numbers in their system. However, it was not really known what was behind the scam. And there was little victims could do, short of changing their number. That would not necessarily be a long-term solution, as the scammer appeared to randomly select numbers - possibly through online phonebooks - and could well target the new number. One Wellington man said his household had received a number of the calls, usually early in the morning. Today they came about 3am and 4am. "Phone calls in the middle of the night don't usually bring good news, so you're instantly wide awake,'' he said. "It's great there's no bad news but it's extremely annoying to be woken like that.'' He had considered blowing a whistle - loudly - down the phone but Telecom advised against that, saying the scammers had been known to either increase the frequency of their calls or abuse their victims. "Unfortunately it is just one of those things - we do ask customers to call us and tell us,'' the spokesman said. "We would just advise to hang up straight away.'' A Ministry of Consumer Affairs spokesman said it had received 1700 reports of phone scams this year. "It appears that as New Zealanders have become educated over the signs of an email scam, scammers have begun cold-calling instead,'' he said. "Phone scammers can be considerably more intrusive, persuasive and, in some cases, aggressive. Always be suspect when someone calls you out of the blue and be aware that they may not be who they say they are. "Never give out your personal details to someone you do not know and remember that you have the power to hang up in a phone conversation.''	bevy121 (117)
1248340	2011-12-13 03:23:00	Hardly a "scam" if they don't try to get money out of you, nuisance call perhaps. Many of these marketers call more people than they have free operators so occasionally you'll answer and they can't switch someone to your call.	PaulD (232)
1248341	2011-12-13 05:45:00	School holidays = more prank calls?	Ofthesea (14129)
1248342	2011-12-13 08:26:00	I've had about 8 of these calls in the last week. There is a pause after you answer, then a click noise followed by the call ending. Interesting there has been no evidence of these calls on the answer machine.	Jen (38)
1248343	2011-12-13 09:13:00	I've been getting these at my flat recently. I always thought it as one of those scams where they call you up, say hello, etc then you call them back thinking its a relative, then you get a huge phone bill.	Netsukeninja (13296)
1248344	2011-12-13 17:02:00	I was getting alot of these from Australia a few months ago. I would just push the talk and end buttons on my phone. Personally I wouldn't worry about them. :)	Trev (427)
1248345	2011-12-13 19:52:00	Personally I wouldn't worry about them.:) Quite right, Trev. Not worth worrying about. Best idea is just to hang up.	Roscoe (6288)
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