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pneFor some bizarre reason, when Stella called me just now on my cell phone (O2 Germany network), the number appearing in the display of my mobile phone was not "Zu Hause schnurlos" (an address list entry) but 17325551212—which, I suppose, is Directory Inquiries for area code 732 in New Jersey. Bizarre.
After googling a bit, 17325551212 appears as an example telephone number showing the expected format of a phone number in an email-to-fax gateway and in a presentation on SIP for VOIP.
At a guess, it's the second one that's significant: someone implemented some VOIP service somewhere without configuring it properly and instead transmits the example number from the documentation somewhere rather than the real number.
Why the person creating the presentation/documentation used that particular number as their example, I have no idea. (Perhaps they lived in the 732 area code?)
So I'm guessing that when someone tries to call you using Voice-over-IP (deliberately or because some telephone carrier along the way uses VOIP) and they pass over a broken phone system (one that hasn't been configured properly), you get the example phone number rather than the real one.
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Date: Wednesday, 25 July 2007 19:20 (UTC)What kind of global cellphone conspiracy is happening here?
If you find out more, you might contact me on 1732555-conspiracy(at)jeudi.de
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Date: Thursday, 26 July 2007 05:02 (UTC)Be it also known that I live in Indiana and don't know anyone in New Jersey. Maybe their phone system is broken.
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Date: Thursday, 26 July 2007 06:51 (UTC)At a guess, it's the second one that's significant: someone implemented some VOIP service somewhere without configuring it properly and instead transmits the example number from the documentation somewhere rather than the real number.
Why the person creating the presentation/documentation used that particular number as their example, I have no idea. (Perhaps they lived in the 732 area code?)
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Date: Thursday, 26 July 2007 06:52 (UTC)I don't think it's New Jersey's fault, though; they're probably just the innocent victim of someone's picking a NJ number as an example somewhere which someone copied.
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Date: Monday, 6 August 2007 07:40 (UTC)Same thing just happened to me. I missed the call, though. I have no idea who it might have been. Also, I'm from Germany.
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Date: Monday, 6 August 2007 12:38 (UTC)Re: 17325551212
Date: Tuesday, 7 August 2007 12:11 (UTC)I got here through google, too (looked for the number). I'm from Germany, too and my boyfriend gets those mysterious calls on his cellphone like ten times a day for 3 or 4 days in a row now. Usually they were displayed as "unknown" but today that number (17325551212) popped up. His cellphone provider is O2.
Needless to say it's pretty annoying.
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Date: Tuesday, 7 August 2007 20:40 (UTC)i can't find anything about this number in the internet. maybe someone else is better than me and finds something about it.
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Date: Sunday, 12 August 2007 19:15 (UTC)Re: 17325551212
Date: Monday, 13 August 2007 12:09 (UTC)Re: 17325551212
Date: Monday, 13 August 2007 12:57 (UTC)That's interesting. So it's not just O2, then.
Thanks for the comment!
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Date: Tuesday, 14 August 2007 13:15 (UTC)It was my girlfriend from her Alice/Hansenet Phone to my O2-cellphone. My girlfriend said, she had some noise in here phone, before the call started.
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Date: Tuesday, 14 August 2007 14:51 (UTC)a few seconds later a friend was calling. he said, there was a noise too.
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Date: Tuesday, 14 August 2007 17:13 (UTC)17325551212
Date: Wednesday, 15 August 2007 08:24 (UTC)Re: 17325551212
Date: Thursday, 16 August 2007 13:59 (UTC)Re: 17325551212
Date: Friday, 17 August 2007 11:52 (UTC)no subject
Date: Friday, 17 August 2007 15:09 (UTC)i'm from germany too. Today, 17.08.2007 11:24 "17325551212" called my. i took the phone. There was no sound, only noise (german: rauschen). Then i hung up.
A few minutes later i got an sms from +4917325551212. It was the standard sms you get after missed calls (i have O2 mobile): Anruf-Info: 017325551212 hat versucht Sie anzurufen (17.08. um 11:24 Uhr) * Diese SMS ist für Sie kostenlos.
When i try to call back the Number, the nice woman voice tells me: The number you have dialed is not assigned.
?!?
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Date: Friday, 17 August 2007 18:20 (UTC)That's interesting -- I've never seen the German +49 prefix in front of that number.
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and I haven't seen this number before, either.
Thank you for your comment!
I still wonder what is misconfigured where that results in this number...
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Date: Saturday, 18 August 2007 11:38 (UTC)Re: add me to the list
Date: Sunday, 19 August 2007 13:20 (UTC)Curious as I am, I was straight away gooooogeling this number and found this page and I am shocked that
there are more people receiving calls from this number.
Hope that there will be no serious worm, virus, etc. spread through this calls, if this is
technically possible.
Greetings from Germany from an O2 user.
same number called me..
Date: Tuesday, 21 August 2007 13:37 (UTC)im also from germany vodafone.
my husband said hes been receiving some calls lately from a simular number ( i suppose the same one) and when he answers theres no one there..so he thought it could maybe be one of those calls who charge u directly when u answer..
any other ideas what it could be?