[plug] [OT| growing VOIP -> POTS spam problem

[Chris Caston]

On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 08:53, Bernd Felsche wrote:
> "Arie Hol" <arie99 at ozemail.com.au> writes:
> 
> >I had a good one a few days ago.........
> 
> 
> >Phone rings many times........
> 
> >Me 	: "Hello......."
> 
> >Caller	: "Hello is that <quotes my phone number to me>"
> 
> >Me		: "You should know, you just dialed it !!! "
> 
> >Caller	: "Oh yeah..... so I did........<silence> "
> 
> >Me		: Hangs up, shakes head and walks away............
> 
> My phone number used to be one-off from the local cop-shop.
> 
> For some reason, I had lots of calls from New Zealand. The caller
> was always sure that they had dialled correctly.

My 1300 number is very similar to that of GE Capital finance.

Once my land line phone rang at 4-5am (I usually get up at about 8-9am)
and it was a lady from over east calling first thing in the morning. The
call went through to message bank and she then got my mobile number off
the message (which clearly stated Aptitude Technology) and called my
mobile asking if I was GE Capital finance.

I've had about 2-3 other people calling up looking for GE and as I pay
for the call (if its non-local) I end it very quickly. I also once got a
lady call up from Goulburn looking for HP support. 

regards,

Chris