On 23/03/13 15:52, Alex Balashov wrote:
A customer of mine is seeing aggressive attempts to dial +441904891769 through their system, but I can't find +44 190, or any superset or subset thereof (beyond '44', obviously) in any rate decks easily at my disposal. None of the usual retail suspects have it listed in any of their online pricing, either.
I assume this means it's a new prefix, but can anyone tell if it's a premium number?
Not a premium rate. Standard UK geographic number. https://www.aql.com/telecoms/network_lookup.php?number=01904891769&nlSubmit=... Will tell you that it is provided by Magrathea. These guys are a wholesale provider of VoIP numbers. So decent chance these is some kind of SIP PBX on the end of it. Although it could be a hosted provider too. Many telcos in the UK use Magrathea to provide phone numbers. I bet somebody is trying to brute force the voicemail account or something, to then dial onto premium rate numbers from there. For those people not used to UK numbers. +44 - country 1904 - area code, which is the city of York 89 will be the range allocated to Magrathea. You can also lookup UK numbers at: http://www.telecom-tariffs.co.uk/codelook.htm -- Tim Bray tim at kooky.org Huddersfield, UK