Caller Display shows INTERNATIONAL followed by a UK number

[GarethGlyn]

I keep getting calls where the caller display shows INTERNATIONAL followed by a UK number (today's was a Cardiff number, for example).  How do I interpret this display?  I don't presently answer the calls as I suspect there's something dodgy about them (e.g. a spoofed number), and nobody ever leaves a message when I leave the phone ringing.  So is it an international nuisance call with a faked UK number, or a legit UK call with its number caught in some kind of glitch?

[licquorice · Accepted solution]

Its a scammer using a spoofed number, ignore.

I work on the principle I only answer calls from numbers I recognise. If its a genuine caller they will leave a sensible message.

[Ribblelancs]

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@GarethGlyn wrote:

I keep getting calls where the caller display shows INTERNATIONAL followed by a UK number (today's was a Cardiff number, for example).  How do I interpret this display?  I don't presently answer the calls as I suspect there's something dodgy about them (e.g. a spoofed number), and nobody ever leaves a message when I leave the phone ringing.  So is it an international nuisance call with a faked UK number, or a legit UK call with its number caught in some kind of glitch?

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The call number will be a fake.  These come occasionally. They come in batches- sometimes several per day, then nothing for a week.

BT Call Protect can detect or send some of these calls to junk,  from a database of known junk callers, which if they leave a message, can be accessed from dialing  1572. 

[GarethGlyn]

Many thanks!!

[simoncs120]

I get the same. I just hit the red 'end call' button on the phone.