23222272728

Semebody call me from this number yesterday and today that same number call to someone other-to my friend´s father.I found in internet that it´s from Africa Sierra Leone,but I don´t understeand why and who called me...I´s funny,because I have nobody there-in Africa.Thanx

The same thing happened to me... A call from Sierra Leone but I´m from Czech Republic, Europe, and I don´t know anybody even from whole Africa!

I just got a call from that number too - Currently I am in the Caribbean temporarily so there are few people with my Caribbean number making this call very odd. I googled the number and it came up with something about an internet company and an international dialer. No idea what it mean - strange.

I got a call from this number, they called once and hung up, my boyfriend  got a call from Sierra Leone. What can happen? What is this?

I just got a call from that number!! but i'm from Latvia,i dont know somebody from Africa

Just 10 minutes ago I also had a missed call from this number. I am from Budapest, Hungary. Strange....

18.55--> the same number called to me. I am from Poland.
absurdity!

I'm from Finland, and this number called me about 5 minutes ago. Didn't answer.

I thought it was my girlfirend calling. Damn! I'm dissappointed now! :D

Beware the international missed call scam
July 30, 2009

It begins with a missed call from a number starting +232. "Looks like a Southampton code at a glance," thought one target of this simple scam.

Wrong. It's the international dialling code for Sierra Leone, as one unlucky victim discovered last week.

"Got a call from a +232 number, called it back on a pay as you go.

"Got through £16.20 worth of credit when it answered."

Crooks have been using dozens of these numbers in recent days, with automatic dialing equipment that hangs up after one ring.

We've investigated the multi-million-pound international trade in phone numbers that allows a "carrier" in Lebanon to pass a Sierra Leone phone number to "resellers" in countries like Cyprus, the Czech Republic and Belize, who in turn rent them out to anyone who wants to use them to run a "promotion". Or a scam.

These are so-called "value added services" and callers pay whatever their networks charge for international calls.

The dosh gets shared out by everyone involved - from the network, the carrier and the resellers to the "promoter" at the end of the line, who can can earn around 10p per minute.

Surprise We've found similar Sierra Leone numbers used before Christmas for a parcel scam.

Victims received a text from a UK mobile which read: "!!URGENT!! Parcel Awaiting Delivery Call Now On +23222270680 For Delivery Tomorrow International Parcel Delivery."

Identical texts also asked recipients to call an Austrian "+4382" number, including one sold by Maxtis Telecom from Prague, the Czech Republic.

"I stupidly called the number," complained one victim. "It cost me almost £15 on my mobile. I wasn't really expecting any parcels but as I have a lot of family all over the world thought maybe it was a surprise gift."

Another said: "An automated voice kept asking me to enter my mobile number then repeating it back to me incorrectly.

"They were obviously trying to keep me on the line."

That's exactly the idea. Maxtis has a "large portfolio" of these international numbers and says the promoter can "decide the amount to charge the customer by making him hold the line for a defined period of time".

The boss of Maxtis, Jean-Christophe Gramont, who lives in France, was also the boss of New Deal Telecom, barred from running UK premium rates by our watchdog PhonepayPlus since 2005 for non-payment of fines.

Maxtis was not directly involved in the parcel delivery scam and says its lines are not for "illegal or immoral" uses.

Other numbers used by the scammers over a period of at least four weeks came from Ambavox, based in Switzerland.

Ambavox was fined £30,000 last year by PhonepayPlus for another parcel delivery scam using a £1.50-a-minute UK "090" number.

Victims were made to hold for three minutes before they were cut off. Ambavox said it was "completely unaware" of the scam and stopped it when it was told about it.

But it has refused to pay the fine or refund victims, saying that's up to the networks and BT.

It too is now barred from all UK premium rate business.
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Geoffrey Laffoley-Lane's numbers used by parcel scammers

This parcel delivery scam begins with a text from a UK mobilesaying "!"!!URGENT!! Large Parcel Awaiting Delivery. Please Call NOW on +4382091921605".

One victim was expecting a package but got through to a lengthy answerphone message that cost £9 because the number was registered in Austria.

Several firms shared her £9, including Telecom Austria and its client, a company in Switzerland called Ambavox AG, which supplied it to Keyzone Telecom, based in Cyprus.

Keyzone told us it gave the number to a firm called Maxtis, in the Czech Republic, which in turn passed it to Geoffrey Laffoley-Lane, of CFL Live Ltd, based in Redhill, Surrey.

Laffoley-Lane told them he had re-assigned the number to someone called Craig Johnson.

But Johnson's company name does not appear to exist and the address he used is that of a company formation agent in Aldermaston, Berks.

Johnson used at least three Austrian numbers through Laffoley-Lane, along with nine similar numbers originating in Sierra Leone.

The scam ran in October and November last year. Laffoley-Lane said he couldn't give us further details for Johnson for "data protection" reasons.

Got a call from this number yesterday (Friday 25th September 2009) at approximately 1:34pm.  My phone rang and when I answered the person hung up.  I did not return the call since the number was strange to me however I looked it up on the internet and found the code to be from Sierra Leone.  I live in the Caribbean and have no connection on this side of the world.

I'm from Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Missed this call on september 26th at 12.34. I luckily did not call back.

Well did it to me too... I am from Sweden.
I answered and they hung up the call on september 28th at 16.36 (4:36 pm).
Sales people and Telemarketing firms are the worst of people..!

I also got a call. Im from Copenhagen, Denmark..
I was wise enough to reject the call.. DOn´t ever trust your phone :)

I'm from Romania,I got a call of this number wright now, I answered and the person hung-up. That means I pay something?!

just got a call from +23222272728 and I didn`t ans. the call at 19:00pm 28/09/2009 I tried to dial it via skype and call fail. I am from Bulgaria .

Got a call from this number 5 minutes ago. I'm from Pécs, Hungary.

I've got a Call as well...(10 minutes ago) Hungary, Budapest

I am from Copenhagen,Denmark, i had the call from the number +23222272728 about 30 min ago. I made a repport at the police !!!

Im from Finland and just get the call. Tomorrow report to police

im from bulgaria 23222272728 that number ranged i pickup and the person on the other side closed like the rest of you can someone tell what it is ?