Voicemail Text

**Paul** · 18-07-2015, 18:24

I got a strange text not long ago claiming to be from "Virgin".

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Your voicemail number is updated. If you receive this message again store +447959675103 in your contacts and dial direct to access voicemail.

This looks very dodgy to me - does anyone know anything about this ?

Stephen · 18-07-2015, 20:48

what number did the text come from?

**Paul** · 19-07-2015, 14:40

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Originally Posted by Stephen

what number did the text come from?

It didnt have any number.

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Originally Posted by Paul M

.... claiming to be from "Virgin".

Stephen · 19-07-2015, 15:07

Did it show a name then in your inbox?

Some texts show as virgin media or sometimes 789789

Kymmy · 19-07-2015, 16:47

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Originally Posted by Paul M

I got a strange text not long ago claiming to be from "Virgin".

This looks very dodgy to me - does anyone know anything about this ?

My voicemail number is similar to my number but starting with +44002 then my number minus the leading zero. Have you googled the other number Paul?

arcimedes · 19-07-2015, 17:50

My voicemail is nothing like my mobile number. I received a text like yours back in March 2014. I have just tested voice mail and when you want to pickup the message the number it uses is the one that was sent. I didn't do anything with the text its still sitting in the text messages. So its seems to be harmless.

Stephen · 19-07-2015, 21:27

My voicemail number is just 222 in my phones settings.

whenthecatsaway · 09-08-2015, 22:43

there are different types of voicemail numbers. One type is pretty much your number with a "Platform" like 002 etc. The other is a phantom number which is used when roaming is turned on, totally different to your mobile number

qasdfdsaq · 10-08-2015, 16:19

In the old days all networks just had one voicemail number and it was easy to remember (07973 100 123 anyone?)

BenMcr · 24-08-2015, 13:45

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Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq

In the old days all networks just had one voicemail number and it was easy to remember (07973 100 123 anyone?)

0973 was originally allocated to Orange exclusively, so it wouldn't have been the same for all providers

http://www.area-codes.org.uk/07973-numbers.php

qasdfdsaq · 25-08-2015, 13:29

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Originally Posted by BenMcr

0973 was originally allocated to Orange exclusively, so it wouldn't have been the same for all providers

http://www.area-codes.org.uk/07973-numbers.php

Yes, I know, but all networks just had one simple to remember number. On Orange, all their numbers were easy to remember - all 3 digit numbers - 100, 123, 150, 973, 212 had the same prefix for off-net - 07973 100 123, 07973 100 150, etc.

Vodafone's voicemail number (121) also made a decent amount of sense, you could either dial 121 on-net or 07836 121 121 off-net. WTH is it with these 07284 491 583 numbers these days?!

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I wonder if it's all a knee-jerk reaction to that "phone hacking" scandal. If everyone has their own "personal" voicemail number it's marginally harder to than to just dial the universal number to get someone else's voicemail.

**Paul** · 25-08-2015, 16:56

Seems an incredible waste of numbers in that case, based on my experience, not many people actually use voicemail.

arcimedes · 30-08-2015, 12:25

I am totally confused. I just changed phones (in the process having to get a micro sim card from Virgin) and voice mail wouldn't work. After a couple off calls to VM and on the second call being escalated upwards voice mail sprang back into action. I now appears that I either press ONE on the phone or dial 222 from the phone to call voice mail. Does this mean that all the funny numbers (including the text I had for the old phone) don't exist now or never really did?

BenMcr · 30-08-2015, 14:35

The funny number will be likely be programmed under the '1' speed dial