Hello
My name is Lukas, i 'm from germany and i’m new here and i’m looking for information.
Yesterday, i was called from 0044 203 2900 XXX
so i think, it was a number from GB and London…does someone know, which firm or call-center calling me ?
Just google the full number, but start it 0203 rather than the full international dialling code. There’s a number of websites where people log and report cold-callers, call-centres, scammers etc. This might work better if you use google.co.uk.
Don’t start it at “0203”, which is a nonsensical grouping. The national dialling code (i.e., area code) for London is 20; the 3 is the first digit of the eight-digit local number. Best to Google for “20 329X XXXX”, “20329XXXXX”, “20 329XXXXX”, or the same three strings with a “0” prepended. (As in Germany, the area code must be prefixed with 0 when making a local call from another area code.)
that’s the Number 004420 3290 0719
the google search in google.co.uk with the full number brought nothing
That’s not the full number either. 00 is some carrier-specific prefix you use to signal that you are dialling an international number. You might want to try omitting it when searching online.
If nothing turns up from Googling, then people in this thread are unlikely to be able to help you. Perhaps the best thing to do is call the number yourself to ask who they are. Of course, it’s possible that they won’t answer, or that they will lie to you about their identity, or that the call display number you got was spoofed. But there might not be any better way.
I just called the number. No answer - it just rings out.
The UK number is 020 3290 0719. It’s a London code, but that doesn’t really mean anything as numbers can be assigned to VoIP callers based anywhere. Searching for just the first part of the number (020 3290) brings up lots of comments about spam callers, so it’s a fair bet that some spammer has bought up a block of those numbers and is cycling through them.
0044 is “I’m in Europe dialing another country” (00) followed by “the number I’m calling is in the UK” (44). If you were calling from the UK, there would be a single 0 instead of that 0044
Not quite—not every telephone system in Europe uses 00 as the international dialling prefix. (Russia, for example, uses 8xx, where xx is a two-digit number unique to a given carrier.)
First of all, what makes you think you were called from that number?
Because it shows up as the caller-id on your phone? Wrong – not reliable. Those can easily be faked. Just like the ‘From’ header on an email, or the return address someone writes on a postal envelope – those can easily be faked by the sender.
And lots of disreputable people (spammers, scammers, shady solicitors) have a strong monetary incentive to do such faking.
So I wouldn’t expend much effort trying to track down such a sender.
ok…it should be enough…topic closed plz