01895847596 this number came up - they said Talktalk are shutting down for updates !!!!!  11am Mon 30 April 2018

gwr wrote on Apr 30^th, 2018 at 5:00pm:

01895847596 this number came up - they said Talktalk are shutting down for updates !!!!!  11am Mon 30 April 2018

Hello there gwr are you questioning if it was a scam? Or letting us know?

I have to say I am not sure it's the relevant place as were not looking for an alternative.

Known scamming number:
https://who-called.co.uk/Number/01897818382

If it had been almost a month earlier it would have been almost amousing  :)

Any calls fron 01898 numbers are likely to be being spoofed by scammers  as it is an unallocated  UK exchange code ,

0898 was used for premium rate calls ages ago
before they swiched to the 09 range,

How did we go from
01895847596 to
01897818382 to
01898 ?

The point about CLI being spoofed is the most important. It can never be relied upon to prove identity of caller.

gwr wrote on Apr 30^th, 2018 at 5:00pm:

01895847596 this number came up - they said Talktalk are shutting down for updates !!!!!  11am Mon 30 April 2018

Just to add to this, why would an ISP phone customers to tell them that?  Does anyone honestly think they have that kind of time on their hands!

See this recent long thread   
https://community.talktalk.co.uk/t5/Let-s-beat-the-scammerstogether/Automated-phone-call-claiming-to-be-from-TalkTalk/td-p/2175966        
not about the specific number  but it gives you an idea of how rife the prob is.


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bigjohn wrote on May 2^nd, 2018 at 10:42am:

See this recent long thread    https://community.talktalk.co.uk/t5/Let-s-beat-the-scammers-together/Automated-phone-call-claiming-to-be-from-TalkTalk/td-p/2175966         not about the specific number  but it gives you an idea of how rife the prob is.

The link didn't appear to work,you can visit it

here

Talktalk customers now have the free benefit of CallSafe, a trueCall clone.

For those who are content for all unknown callers to be challenged to identify themselves, this provides effective individual protection against most nuisance calls - certainly all automated calls.