Mysterious Call from +918040228400

Guys!

Its strange. My father is getting a mysterious call from +918040228400 on his cell phone.

When he attend the call, no voice comes and after a few seconds the call ends.

When he tried to call back, it says "The no. doesnt exist".

Whats the matter? Can some one throw some light?

maybe ur service provider can help u triangulate d location from wer it was made

but no starts with 80, never seen dat

well, analysing that number... its an airtel landline number from bangalore. lemme see if i can get more details about it, vishal.

edit: i checked the number, vishal. the call doesn't get completed. after the dialing there is cont. beeping and nothing else. no ring, no engage tone, no msgs. jus cont. beeps. strange!!

Really strange...

Should I call India TV? lol

Vishal Gupta said:
Should I call India TV? lol

Right! ....it will be fun...News Headline....Sansani ek Gufiya Phone Number....Dehshath bhara phone number

Parshasan kya raha tha ?

i got such rings in daily manner.most of them rings two or three and disconnects

and many of those got connected will say "Hello Maashe!" and asks for something and blah blah to get something activated for eg: cricket etc.if i dial these numbers in return same experiance as Original poster's.

My father got 3 calls from this number and nothing happened. No voice sirf ek lamba sannata.

There are so many sites now which allow the incoming no to be altered,A friend of mine uses this,when he calls someone instead of showing his no, caller id shows some others no which he used to register...usually some of my other friends no

Vishal .. waitin 4 u to come on India Tv..

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This may be due to the use of some software installed on caller's mobile.
Caller dials the no., a random no. is generated, which is displayed on mobile which is dialled. So the person (called) receives the call from number, which does not really exist. This whole process takes place through GPRS.

someone is calling from the internet voip then only ..it would say "the no doesn't exist" because temporary no. are assigned to them who makes call via Voip..

cyberboy_kerala said:
There are so many sites now which allow the incoming no to be altered,A friend of mine uses this,when he calls someone instead of showing his no, caller id shows some others no which he used to register...usually some of my other friends no

Any example?

this is the VoiP no coming to you, routed by , some misc VoiP provider which don't have voip or ITSP license, they send the confrence ID, in the cli no field, previously this ID used to be anywere between 4 to 6 digit, now as mobile co dosn't provide POI to them (because of pressure form TRAI), they shifted it to 10 digit, now the telecom co in india when receive a CLI without +(contery code) they prefix +91 in it.
they do it because they also route there isd calls through VoiP (with the concenses of TRI), to save on money.
anyway if you receive a call with
either
80,85, +80,+85,9180,+9185, with ending 0 or 2 , and if there is no return path, that is a voip call.
and at the last we have to live with it as the the peoples forwarding the call to the mobile co's POI is also providing that co the POI in that country were the call is routed from.
and that lamba sannata is due to some mis configured the voip device for testing.
in us and uk people have these kind of call on regular basis, thanks to small call centers in india, pakistan, philipeens etc, were some people is either configuring or customizing the dialers from the leads(no's) provided by us/uk provider and dialing that no, or some misbehaving dialer were the rx and tx packets becomes one way or the levels are drop down too much.

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^^^
wow didn't know this.. thx for the info

@abhasbajpai from your title it looks you love asterisk...you seem to have lots of knowledge of SIP, VOIP and all.

abhasbajpai from your title it looks you love asterisk...you seem to have lots of knowledge of SIP, VOIP and all.

i am working on VoiP, sip, asterisk and vicidial for last 3 years

Hey that's my number!

VG yaar very simple one

Go to ur netwoork Settings Call Divert now any phone select divart all voice calls to Manuall number, now input one BSNL land line number which doesnt exists !!!

Thats it, now when ever some one calls u will hear IVRS playing back, the number u have dial doesnt exists, please check the number with .... Blah Blah

test and post back whether it works like same way which u are faicing

:lol:

Choto Cheeta said:
Thats it, now when ever some one calls u will hear IVRS playing back, the number u have dial doesnt exists, please check the number with .... Blah Blah

dats al rite d00d but wen u call up d no it gets disconnected immediatley wit no vox heard [actually i called up d no 2 c

]

dunno much abt VOIP [actually abt anythin] but abhasbajpai's post sounds convincin

It cud b some virus no. Some moblie viruses exist. They call you and when u recv. 'em they damage ur SIM and handset. Handset bcomes useless thereafter. Don't ask proofs coz there was an email about this to my dad.

goobimama said:
Hey that's my number!

hey vishal, gobiman is ur spammer, report him 2 d mods. dey will ban him 4 2 weeks

The Unknown

did u try what i posted ???

Choto Cheeta said:
The Unknown

did u try what i posted ???

I am 10th class student. What is the use of mobile to me?? lol. U still don't know that i am a 10th class student? Many of 'em here know this.

thanx for the amazing info abhas bhai ....

calls can be made from net to landlines and some weird numbers appear on mobiles like urs and when u call back it says number dont exist. I myself have done this many times to harass my friends . hehe...

iMav said:
thanx for the amazing info abhas bhai ....

ru takin' 2 me?

^^ He is referring to this post:

*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showpost.php?p=561406&postcount=13

Vishal Gupta said:
Guys!

Its strange. My father is getting a mysterious call from +918040228400 on his cell phone.

When he attend the call, no voice comes and after a few seconds the call ends.

When he tried to call back, it says "The no. doesnt exist".

Whats the matter? Can some one throw some light?

Well I got calls from some numbers in the past like that, but now I get calls making me listen to stupid 90s HINDI songs from film aashiqui etc and then telling me to dial 0 to download this song <play song>, 1 to download <play song> etc!!

Its easy I noticed it comes from same spammer so I have made a reject profile for it!! U may do the same!!

mediator said:
Well I got calls from some numbers in the past like that, but now I get calls making me listen to stupid 90s HINDI songs from film aashiqui etc and then telling me to dial 0 to download this song <play song>, 1 to download <play song> etc!!

Its easy I noticed it comes from same spammer so I have made a reject profile for it!! U may do the same!!

which cell do u own ?? mediator

~Phenom~ said:
calls can be made from net to landlines and some weird numbers appear on mobiles like urs and when u call back it says number dont exist. I myself have done this many times to harass my friends . hehe...

calling from PC - landline / mobile costs na ??... if i'm not wrong... u spent money just to harrass them. :shock:

^Well its '3220', old but still rocking. I have made a profile called "spam" and keep adding such numbers in it and on the top of it dedicated a different ring tone to it!! So wheneva such number comes, "spam" hi-lights, rings and buzzes. No need to pay attention to it.

Actually in my friend's Mobile N-93 or N-73 I guess, he can even reject such calls as the phone offers such feature/protection!! Its was really getting annoying when a call used to come and all u got to listen was "Chaha to bahut, na chahein tumhe"!

The Unknown said:
It cud b some virus no. Some moblie viruses exist. They call you and when u recv. 'em they damage ur SIM and handset. Handset bcomes useless thereafter. Don't ask proofs coz there was an email about this to my dad.

ask your dad to forward the mail to you and copy/paste it here

Vishal Gupta said:
Guys!

Its strange. My father is getting a mysterious call from +918040228400 on his cell phone.
some light?

You must complaint your Cell Phone Operator for this

Last year in Mumbai
their was a group of engineers who made some softwares & machines for hacking international phone calls

Actually what they do is
for eg
If someone from USA makes ISD to India or vice versa the charges for call is Rs. 15 (for eg) in this Indian Govt also get some 7-8 rs. as a tax
Now wht they do is
they hacks the phone lines & whenever their is a call from abroad countries they convert it with help of their Computers, Softwares & Machine
& make it appear like its a Local call, so govt get only 50 paise as a tax
In this process the number changes to any odd no. or even sometime its appears "unknown number" on the mobile screen.

Now a days also in mumbai we get SMS from our mobile operator that if we receive any international call & if the odd or unknown or local numbers appears on screen than pls call customer care

So May be someone has inveted the same technique in your city..........

Vishal Gupta said:
........... mysterious call from +918040228400 .......
When he tried to call back, it says "The no. doesnt exist".

I suggest try calling 91-080-40228400. i am telling this coz my crappy beetel landline phone drops the first zero off most incoming numbers and calling back gives The no. doesnt exist. When i redial with intial zero the call goes thru. So like someone suggested its a bangalore number.

Hmmm....nice guess! Yea it happens when some one calls u from outside and u get no reply! Happened plenty of times when relatives from US called here!

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@vish - Nah it doesn't cost. www.gizmocall.com allows u to call frm net to mobile for free. Sometimes it works and sometimes doesn't. Some no. like 9xxx888888 appears. (Bhoot

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