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Re: Prize draw advert infecting BT exchange?

"Andy Burns" <usenet.aug2009@adslpipe.co.uk> wrote in message
news:8fydnXR8W5_LNlbXnZ2dnUVZ8uSdnZ2d@brightview.co.uk...
> On 06/10/09 20:31, Peter Hucker wrote:
>> I mentioned this before, but have since discovered it works for ANY
>> "area code".
>>
>> When I'm at work I dial 9 for an outside line first. Hence sometimes
>> when I'm at home I forget not to.
>>
>> Dialing 907941 (a 9 followed by the first bit of a mobile number) or
>> 901259 or 901479 (9 followed by a normal area code), and presumably 9
>> followed by any area code (I have to dial 6 numbers before it answers),
>> results in a recorded message something along the lines of
>> "Congratulations, you have qualified for the £25000 weekly mobile
draw.
>> Please enter your mobile number." What in the hell is this?!? Does this
>> happen to anyone else or is it only my (01259) exchange?
>
>
> from
>
http://www.ofcom.org.uk/telecoms/ioi/numbers/numbers_administered/data_download_files/s1
_code
>
>
"1259","90","","Allocated","","Te
lNG Limited","4+6","02/2007","F-Digit
> '2'"
>
> sounds like you're just phoning a local TeleNG number that beings with 90

A massive range of numbers that appear to exist to harvest mobile numbers?
Seems decidedly odd to me.
A quick power-dialling session seems to indicate the entire range from
01259 900000 to
01259 909998 is routed to the same announcement.
909999 goes to "You have reached the IP Exchange VoIP test number"

If a person with a suspicious mind were to suggest this was device to
harvest
the mobile numbers of Alloa residents who usually make their calls from
behind a PABX, I would hesitate before disagreeing with them...

--
Graham.

%Profound_observation%

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