On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:12:22 +0000, judith
wrote:
>Interesting - I just had very similar - they were offering a debt
>consolidation service. I pressed 5 to say that I was interested and
>was put through to an American/Canadian voice - I asked her what
>company she was calling from she said UK Consolidation. I told her
>that the number which they had dialled was a Trading Standards number
>- and that she had broken the UK laws and to stay on the line whilst
>the call was traced as a precursor to legal action.
>
>She rang off ;-)
>
>1471 gave a number : 015179312168 - which when I called said it was
>not recognised.
Not enough digits, if you notice. You missed a leading zero.
The number is actually 00151 793 12168
Which is 1-517-931-2168 as dialled in America.
That is to say subscriber 2168 on telephone exchange number 931 in
area code 517.
2168 happens to be the start of a numbering range so probably they
have hundreds of "lines" and are just using the first one as a
presentation number.
http://www.michigan-mi.info/517-931.html
MICHIGAN Phone Numbers
Exchange 517-931
Lookup the owner of this MICHIGAN number!
517-931-2168
Telephone Company: LUCRE, INC.
Registered City: Grand Rapids
State: MICHIGAN (MI)
Zip Code: 49503-3022
www.lucre.net/
HTH (But I doubt it ! )
DG
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