Captain Colonial Posted November 17, 2022 Share Posted November 17, 2022 Both the mobile phones in the house (Lebara) have been getting text messages saying we have a new voicemail, even though the phone hasn’t rung. When we call the voicemail number, there is a voicemail message but it’s silent and only lasts one or two seconds. Is this a fluke or a scam? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Stanton Posted November 17, 2022 Share Posted November 17, 2022 Quite often they're a scam - sometimes you're connected to a high rate costly number where you get charged a fortune. Lebara use vodaphone system I believe - check your account costs, just in case. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blatman Posted November 17, 2022 Share Posted November 17, 2022 Yeah don't dial from the link or number displayed in the text. Dial your own voicemail number from wherever you have it saved. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman Posted November 17, 2022 Share Posted November 17, 2022 Yeah, you'd be staggered just how expensive some of the highest of the premium numbers the scammers use can be; even for the shortest duration calls. - it can be three figures! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corsechris Posted November 18, 2022 Share Posted November 18, 2022 Boggles my mind that the telco operators are allowed to set up these sort of things. Of course, they take their cut so why would they care. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Colonial Posted November 18, 2022 Author Share Posted November 18, 2022 What I don’t understand is how I’m getting silent voicemails without my phone ringing. I get the voicemail text message, then dial my voicemail on 121 manually (completely avoiding the text message) and find I have a blank message. Weird. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Stanton Posted November 18, 2022 Share Posted November 18, 2022 Call me cynical by all means - Lebara is an Indian based company that provides cost effective mobile sim cards - in the UK they "piggy back" onto vodafone system. However as a customer of an Indian based company, chances are they will have your details on their database, where laws regarding release of info are different - I would ask where do we receive the most nuisance calls from on our mobiles and landlines - for me its India. The technology they have for random number dialling is first rate and I suspect it's also available to leave messages/texts to try and hook you into calling some expensive rate number. Maybe I'm adding 2+2 and its 5 ? or possibly it's a very annoying coincidence ? Did you have these nuisance messages on other service providers ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Colonial Posted November 18, 2022 Author Share Posted November 18, 2022 6 minutes ago, Mark Stanton said: Did you have these nuisance messages on other service providers ? Nope. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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