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Posted: 2008-01-07 by Tracey Edman  [send email]
Calls from Somalia
Complaint Rating: 100 % with 4 votes
Company information:
Minnesota
United States
Phone: 952-201-0503

For the past week my boyfriend has been receiving unwanted calls from the # 252 907 89126. We traced the # to Somalia.

The phone rings and sometimes you can hear someone and sometimes they just hang up. If you try to call it back, it just rings and hangs up. Yesterday he received 40 calls, during all times of the day and night.

We have T-mobile and they won't do anything. The police won't do anything. The only option is to change the number and he doesn't want to do that as he has had this number for 8 years. Can anything else be done?
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 746 days ago by Sara  [send email] 0 Votes
I have been having the exact same problem. I am receiving phone calls from all different numbers with the area code 252 that I traced back to Somalia. I have only answered a couple times, but I have not tried to call them back. I am hoping that by not answering my phone when they call they will eventually stop. I have no idea how they got my number, and I also do not want to change mine. I have T-Mobile as well, but I have yet to contact them about it and have lost a little hope that they will be able to do something due to your complaint. The only solution I have to offer is to check and see if your actual phone has a blocking device on it that will allow you to block certain numbers. If not, you could always just update your phone. I really hate this though, and I am hoping that it will eventually die off.
 615 days ago by Jody  [send email] 0 Votes
I am on Verizon, getting the same kind of calls. Even got one at 3am! Verizon can't/won't block it, my only choice was to file a complaint with the legal authorities or change my number. Not changing my number!! I ended up assigning this guy the name of Ass and his own ringer so I know when to just push the ignore button.
This is frustrating, and worriesome as I fear they are trying to clone my phone or something.
 567 days ago by Shureem Mubaarak  [send email] 0 Votes
i am a unversity student in china
 564 days ago by Elisha  [send email] 0 Votes
I also have t-mobile and had the same problem.. T-mobile refused to do any-thing, but offered me to change my number for free. I at first did not want to change my number, but after I bacame extreamly aggrivated, I did have my number changed. I actually just received my bil today and found out that the number is somali. ... this is soooooooooooooo aggrivating!!! As soon as my contract is up w. t-mobile I am switching to a new carrier!!!
 498 days ago by E  [send email] 0 Votes
Also started getting calls from Somalia to my cell here in Sweden. Im on Telenor... Kinda weird. But I guess they sometimes get routed wrong or something. Once got shipping info from Kuwait for something through a Canadian firm. Haven't had the chance to answer the calls yet. But reading your comment about the caller "not there" I dont think that will do anything.
 282 days ago by   Chris 0 Votes
I'm getting the same thing, same country from AT&T. My secret admirer's number is +25215528919
 232 days ago by   Not a Hater 0 Votes
We are getting dozens of unwanted calls from a Somali phone number as well. After the fifth call this morning, I picked up and yelled, "Allahu Akbar!" (God is great). A woman responded briefly but then hung up. But then called right back. I picked up again and offered the Arab greeting, "Asalamu 'Alaykim" (Peace be upon you) in a polite voice. I think she responded, "Alaykim Asalamu" (Peace Back At Ya), and then said something else. At which point I yelled, "Allahu Akbar!" and she hung up. Haven't been called since. Still, I have a feelng I haven't heard the last from our little cell-phone terrorist.

I say while our Navy is over there policing the waters for Somali pirates they fire a few ship-to-shore missiles and take out their phone networks. This would be in keeping with our general foreign policy of over-reacting where there the threat from Islamic extremism is lowest (e.g., Iraq in 2003) and under-reacting where the threat is the greatest (e.g., Afghanistan and now also Eastern Pakistan).
 168 days ago by   MaidenInTheWoods 0 Votes
Same here - I'm in Sweden, but on Tele 2. Get the call from 0025215928331. I have answered a few times, sometimes there is noise before they hang up. Don't call back - it could be an expensive toll call that gets them a few whatevers they have as money there. I once got 14 calls in a row while hiking in the woods, and often I get them early in the morning. They often come in 2s or 3s. It is really aggrevating. Why don't phones have a BLOCK THIS NUMBER function???
 154 days ago by   Roberto_2z 0 Votes
did it ever stop??? having same problem, PLEASE HELP!
 71 days ago by   opanook 0 Votes
Just got one here in Brisbane, Australia today. Wonder what this is all about? I phoned Optus and that was the first time she'd heard of anything about this. I wonder what they get out of calling?
 37 days ago by   Jim12011 0 Votes
Have the same exact happening to my sprint cell. 252-1551-5589. Sprint wont do anything! I got drunk one night called the FBI, Homeland security and the CIA. They dont care. I just cant figure out the angle behind this. It seems absurd.
 19 days ago by   Mandrake64 0 Votes
I've been having the same problem. I don't understand the angle behind it either. Like a silly cow, I tried to call the number back because I thought the calls were from a friend of mine who's in Kenya, which has a similar country code. I didn't realize it was a Somali number until afterward. God knows, it's probably one of those numbers that when you call it back you get charged a million quid a minute!
 3 days ago by   Chekit 0 Votes
Same thing in US, Same thing, different Cell phone number (25215538915) but still Country code 252 for Somalia. Wonder what game they are playing... They listen to your voice mail so now when they call they use your name. Makes you wonder if it's more than a prank but not sure they can do anything but annoy you if you don't answer.

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