Repeated incoming calls from 002332 code numbers
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Is anyone else experiencing this?
Over the past month, I suddenly get a whole host of incoming calls from 002332 dialling code numbers on my mobile. Once it starts, the same number repeatedly calls me time and again - then often hangs up after 2 rings. It can start to happen at any time of the day or night and it will be the same number that continually tries to redial for the period.
Sometimes if I answer quickly, I get a very bad GSM quality line from the other end with a completely unintelligible voice who hangs up after a few seconds, who sounds African French to me (tallies with the 00332 for Ghana).
Almost always, the second call will be listed as the same number but with the leading 0 missing making it an 02332 number - a nonexistent geographic code in the UK at the moment.
Orange tell me that there's nothing they can do to stop incoming calls from specific numbers or dialing codes so this now makes my phone number pretty much useless during these periods (their advice was to switch the phone off overninght - hardly useful if it starts happening during the day!)
Does anyone know if Orange can REALLY block these (they categorically deny they can) or whether I can do it manually on my Sony Ericcson K750i?
(I've had 2 of these single ring calls while I've been typing this)
Over the past month, I suddenly get a whole host of incoming calls from 002332 dialling code numbers on my mobile. Once it starts, the same number repeatedly calls me time and again - then often hangs up after 2 rings. It can start to happen at any time of the day or night and it will be the same number that continually tries to redial for the period.
Sometimes if I answer quickly, I get a very bad GSM quality line from the other end with a completely unintelligible voice who hangs up after a few seconds, who sounds African French to me (tallies with the 00332 for Ghana).
Almost always, the second call will be listed as the same number but with the leading 0 missing making it an 02332 number - a nonexistent geographic code in the UK at the moment.
Orange tell me that there's nothing they can do to stop incoming calls from specific numbers or dialing codes so this now makes my phone number pretty much useless during these periods (their advice was to switch the phone off overninght - hardly useful if it starts happening during the day!)
Does anyone know if Orange can REALLY block these (they categorically deny they can) or whether I can do it manually on my Sony Ericcson K750i?
(I've had 2 of these single ring calls while I've been typing this)
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I have an application on my Nokia phone to block calls from people i don't know or certain numbers.. I guess a similar thing is available for your phone
There may be a similar application on the Sony Ericcson K750i to allow me to selectively stop specific number or groups of numbers from ringing but Orange said no - and I can't find one myself either.
Blocking anything starting with 002332 and 02332 from ringing would do - but at the moment the phone becomes useless as single and double ring calls start coming from this code for hours on end.
I wonder what possible use would someone have for doing this - surely calls from such regions are extrememt expensive to the UK (as they are in the opposite direction)?
http://www.tpsonline.org.uk/tps/
On the K810i you can also chose to only accept calls from selected numbers (within the profiles menu) which may also be an option.
Orange cannot block numbers I'm afraid - even if you get a crime reference number and ask us to we cannot - all we can offer is to change your number free of charge.