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Originally Posted by danielf
Slightly, Off Topic, but when I got my NTL phone line, I was getting loads of silent calls, typically in the middle of the night. I phoned NTL, and they told me to keep a record, and if I had more than a certain amount of 'hits' in a month, they would investigate. It never got to that, as the silent calls subsided. The reason for the silent calls did become apparent a while later, when someone called and asked me if I was the massage place off junction X.
I guess NTL gave me a 'hot' phone number  |
It is possible that the number allocated to you was an old number from a massage parlour - Numbers are stored for 18 months and then reallocated - This is so that the numbers can outlive the life of a phone book - Then they are allocated at point of sale by telesales - but tsales will not know at that stage what number you are being allcated - I used to get Going Places as my number was one digit away from them and when people asked if they were through to going places I used to say you are going no where - esp when it got to the stage of being anoying - The company would not change their number and so I had to