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You should have said it was a missed call and not just posted the number without any information at all.

I've done a google search and it revealed nothing.

Don't ring them back as they are making money from you calling them back.

The number was originally allocated to BT so you could try asking BT could they tell you the name of the company which uses that number as you are getting missed calls, etc.  Tell them you are thinking of making a complaint to Ofcom.

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Who did they claim they were?

I have actually rung 0870 321 0979 and got the following recorded message:

The number you have dialled does not receive any incoming calls. We apologise for the inconvenience.

So this does not appear to be a telephone scam but some other scam.

Does anybody have any idea what it might be?

Hi Everyone

Thanks for all your messages.  I just would like to say the following :-

Never once did I say this was a nusiance call - I was just hoping that someone out there would have known who the 0870 number belonged too...

When I received the two calls from this number they said they were from the police station and that someone had come to them to make a report that someone had attempted to abuct my child from school - even though the field was full of parents waiting to collect their children (lol)...  Confused....as my child was sitting in the same room as me, when this "police officer" phoned....

I thought that it might have been someone playing a sick prank on me and when I phoned the 0870 number and got that message that this number does not accept incoming calls - I thought I'd smelt a rat...

I phone the police station and made some enquiries about having received these two calls and they did not have any record on there system about it and they informed me that all their numbers either begin with 0845 or the local area code...

As of this evening - I have since found out that the person that phoned from this 0870 number was in fact a genuine call from a police station and that this line from the Police Officer that deals with children cases/reports does in fact not accept incoming calls...

Thanks once again for all your help and advise - and hopefully this will put the case to rest...

Have a Merry Christmas 

Thank you for the clarification.  This matter is clearly for the police and it is good that you now have two-way contact with them.

All the same it is a bit strange that the police use an 0870 number that one cannot call back rather than just prefix the number they are calling with 141 which would have the same effect.  May be that would be too much to expect from a busy police officer who has other things to worry about?

However, whichever method they use they should be instructed to always provide a number to call back, if for nothing else just for the called party to verify that their call wasn't a hoax.

(Dave, the number is my earlier post was a typo, I did call the right number)