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LifestreamI just had an unsolicited call by an automated telephone voice mail system. Kind of neat even though it’s not exactly novel. First time it ever happened to me though. Seems as they have started targeting Swedish ranges of phone numbers now. The call was international and originated from 009724900000. Something about winning a cruise. I didn’t really have time to listen to the entire message but from searching the web I gathered that it is more of a scam than harmless spam. Ah, the effort people put into this.
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19:20 on October 18th, 2005
The cruise scam
My father in law was dialed the nr 009724900000
probably a major scam byt who knowes!!!!
old people are easy 2 fool
17:51 on November 17th, 2005
I just got at least one, possibly two such calls here in Ireland. They seem to original from Israel.
How do these callers make their money?
18:53 on November 21st, 2005
My sister got one of those calls just the other day. it told her to dial 9 and she did and then they said that your number has been transfered and then they hanged up. But it doesnt seem to have happened anything to the phone line or so. did anything happen to your phone afterwords?
21:22 on November 23rd, 2005
I got these in Ireland too, after a bit of searching I’ve seen they originate in Jeruselem, Israel.
Anyway to stop these calls?! I’ve had about 10 in the last few days
20:29 on November 27th, 2005
I was called in sweden today. I asked to many questions so they huy-up. This was after i pressed 9.
13:54 on November 29th, 2005
I was called in Sweden yesterday but was in the stable at the time and just wanted to look up the unanswered number! Anything bad happening from answering the call? I’ve heard of the cruisestory before and there is actually a cruise but it’s not for free! I wonder about any BIG BILLS after the call????
19:57 on November 29th, 2005
I just got this call ( i live in Sweden) and my buddy got one yesterday… seems like a wave coming in…
11:06 on December 1st, 2005
Hi, name is Petter Sundsten and I’m a reporter at the Swedish newspaper Expressen. We want to write about these phone calls that you refer to.
I’m interested to get in touch with people who actually have pressed the number 9 button.
Please contact me at petter.sundsten@expressen.se
Yours sincerely
Petter
16:27 on December 1st, 2005
definitely a major scam! I got the call today, and I said I will not give you my visa card number over the telephone, so why don’t you send me a letter and I can mail you my card number…But the guy would not go for that, he claimed that this offer was just for like 2 days, and that the letter might get lost in the mail or that the mail would take to long (I asked him about this twice, and he gave me a different answer each time). Any serious company would agree to send you an ordinary letter if they wanted to know your card number. Anyway,why would they give free cruises away to promote themselves? If they wanted to promote themselves, they could have used for example tv or newspaper commercials.
17:48 on December 1st, 2005
Hello!
I got the phonecall today as well, however, I hung up after they had told me to press 9 to "collect my prize" since it was a machine that dialed.
First off I do not believe that you can win prizes without even taking part in a contest
Secondly I doubt that they call the winners with a machine.
Thirdly, as Ida Ask said before, a serious company would not demand your credit card and have it as "only solution" to collect a prize, but have at least a secondary solution in case you want to verify that they are real.
I sure hope that people think twice before falling for this scam. I feel sorry for those that have been fooled, but at least it’s an experience they can learn from.
Respectfully yours,
Linda-Marie
18:07 on December 2nd, 2005
Wouldnt it be fun to get hold of these peoples homenumbers and harrass them?
17:05 on December 6th, 2005
I just got one too!
Im scared!
20:18 on December 6th, 2005
My guess is that dont call back any calls from abroad unless you are expecting such calls. there is no way they can scam you if you dont bother calling back. IF you call back you supposedly can pay for a call thats made to the originating country like Israel. whatever the fee for such a call is…..however, probably you pay your operator for connecting to Israel and no more…BUT there is a slight chance theres a pay service like the ones in Sweden at the other end. God knows at what cost.
I think this scams randomly picks numbers to call from the swedish phonebock on the internet.
You can always call Telia f.ex and tell them about the scam. If there is unusual costs because of this scam, its there responsibility to check and protect you from such scams. If you are lucky the might even delete yor costs.
17:05 on December 8th, 2005
I just got this call, but didn’t get to the phone in time, luckily is seems. I was curious and googled on the number and ended up here. Very interesting! How did they get my number in Israel?? Hm… funny.
17:33 on December 8th, 2005
I’ve got the call but didn’t answer; I saw it on my caller id.
009 724900000 at 16:26 2005-12-08 the prefix 009 is for Russia, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan. And I’m not going to answer it either. This is my first call.
Per
21:20 on December 12th, 2005
I’ve got the call tonight but didn’t answer; I saw it on my caller id when i get back home.
009724900000 2005-12-12. I was curious and looked at the internet on the number and ended up here.
17:09 on December 16th, 2005
Dec 16th, 2005.
I live in Sweden and just recieved a call from number 009724900000, I hung up quickly before even pressing 9… Which is exactly what you all should do if you recieve one of these calls!!
Coz seriously, think about it, how is it possible to win a contest you haven’t entered?!
So, just hang up! Hang up! Haaang up.
(You don’t wanna fall for phonescams.)
16:29 on December 20th, 2005
This is strange. As all of you I got this call and I presed 9. After a while of hereing the british woman telling me that I wasn´t paying for the call I got susipios and hung up. After that a tryed to redail it, ´Telia responded and said that you have to press a password and if you pressed wrong 7 times it will be locked. So I presed wrong password 7 times and locked the phonnummber as a revange.
Then I googled the nummber and ended up here. I phoned Petter Sundsten, a reproter att the newspaper Expressen, and told hima bout it all. He said that it is a way of tricking people on their money.
And he said that after a while you will be conected to an man that will tell you that they have got to gett your credit cardnumber. then they will empty your account.
14:55 on December 21st, 2005
i´ve got the call today too… anyway… i´d like to find the people that does these things… beat them up or so… i just hate voicemails etc.
17:19 on December 22nd, 2005
Got one of these mystic phonecalls today. Feldt that something was wrong and hung up. Thank god for the internet sometimes, when I googled the nr I´w got all my questions answered .
18:44 on December 23rd, 2005
ive got the call too…… 2005-12-23 ive called them up, but there was no answer… how the hell did they get my number?….anyway when they said "yo have won" something for free…….i started to think!! something is rutten in the states of denmark……….hehehe nothing is for free exept the air we breed….
dont let them fool ya……bob marley =)
04:25 on December 31st, 2005
If this phone# was a commercial for google or this blog they succeded big time. Other way this is a good reminder of why this earth is judged and why we all must die.
Take care.
21:38 on January 12th, 2006
Well, I just put the handle off the phone and let the machine nag about pressing the nine key. Costs them money, doesn’t it? After a while, it gives up, though. =/
16:30 on January 13th, 2006
Ive got the same call two (2) days ago.
Even my friend got the same call.
We both live in Sweden in a small city.
If anyone fall for this kind of scams its to bad.
20:32 on January 13th, 2006
Hello!
I also live in Sweden, and I have got this phone calls for some days now. I am vety angry about this.
21:32 on January 13th, 2006
hello everyone. i just got a call from the same number. january 13th 2006 at 21.00. I pressed 9 but hung up when a recorded voice said: "your call has come through, we will pay for it …" then i became terribly worried that i had actually missed a free cruise. glad i found this page
David in Uppsala
16:34 on January 14th, 2006
Hello all!
I also live in Sweden and I just got the call from the same number. January 14Th 2006 16.16.
Saw it on my caller id but didnt bother to answer, smelled kind of fishy…and I didnt loose out on anything it seems.
Luckily Google exists…
//Sweden, Örebro
16:05 on January 18th, 2006
Hi
I’m from Sweden too and got a call today too. Seems they are systematically calling everyone
16:36 on January 18th, 2006
Hi,
What time did you get the call Aron?
I, myself got it around 16:00, 18th Januari, as I guess you did.
Do you think that they can call up several persons in the same moment.
Anyway, it’s all very annoying and I hope there’s a way to stop these calls.
19:33 on January 18th, 2006
Hi! (got here while googling the telephone number)
Just got called from this number as well (18th January 2006 19:10) and I off course pressed 9 to see what happened (I’ve heard about this scam before).
So I get connected to a guy who barely speaks English and he says that I have won a cruise for 4 people for free and asks if that’s ok. Sure I said, if it’s free I want it and then he continued and asked me if I had visited their website. I answered no and then he got quiet for like 45 seconds (I heard he tapping on the computer and A LOT of telphone voices in the background) so I asked him what he was doing because it got so quiet suddenly.
He then became somewhat aggressively and said (in bad english) "I’m looking up info for you so I don’t waste your time and you don’t waste mine" . Alright I said and waited for another 15-20 seconds or so…
He then wanted some info from me he said, firstly my name. I then asked him (3 times) if he what kind of other info he needed. He then said that he wanted my name and telephone number.
Sure, telling my name can’t hurt so I said my name, and then I said "and the telephone number you already have because you called me remember?" and then he just hung up.. :confused:
Stupid guy.. I never got my Bahamas cruise
But it was very hard trying to understand what he was saying, sluddering on the words and bad english etc…
L8rs
19:38 on January 18th, 2006
Sorry for double post but I meant Caribbean cruise, not Bahamas
17:06 on January 19th, 2006
Also got a call from 009724900000 today.
But I didn’t bother to answer. I usually never answer when a see a strange phone number.
Got to this page when I googled the number
19:19 on January 20th, 2006
Hi!
I recived a call today and one a couple of month ago.
Who the hell would wanna give me a free vacation saying i won in something i didn’t participated in.
These guys should be the new target for the US troops in the area!
18:25 on January 21st, 2006
Good thing I found this page. Got my call just a few minutes ago (around 18:13 local time). Just thought I’d google it and check what it was, now I know.
16:35 on January 23rd, 2006
Do anyone actually have a recording of one of these scams (at least two different are calling numbers in sweden right now)? I’ve got one, and this is what it said:
""Congratulations! You have just won a free, all-inclusive cruise to the Caribbean! To claim your prize, simply call ring free 001 407 830 0147. Again, call ring free 0014078300147 and don’t forget to mention your claim code "cruise"."
You can listen to it here:
http://www.cint.se/test/res…
If you have a recording of the other version ("dial nine"), i’d be happy to publish it on the web at the swedish consumer website Cint, where I work. Read more here (in swedish):
http://www.cint.se/debatt/S…
or email info@cint.se
21:22 on January 23rd, 2006
We also got a call just about an hour ago, so they’re starting to call ppl in småland now eh?
Well, it definately is a scam, since no one has entered the contest. But what are they after? To see how stupid ppl are? I hung up before pressing anything, since I never entered any contest! Is there no way to trace these people, and frame them for anything? it’s pretty uncomfortable when they’re just calling and starts asking for personal info.
Strange, that’s what it is!
Have a good one
Cheers
22:11 on January 23rd, 2006
Just got the same call as the rest of you. [2006-01-23 21.59] Thanx for all the info since i didn’t even bother to listen to more than "Congratulations! You have [klick]"
22:13 on January 26th, 2006
Hi,
got the same call a couple of days ago in Berlin. I wanted to know what kind of number it is. I ended up here. Now I know it.
Best wishes,
C.
17:43 on January 27th, 2006
Hi! Got the same phonecall today… Luckely I didn´t follow threw with the instructions! Good luck finding those who are guilty! I sure hate these phonecalls!:mad:
19:40 on January 30th, 2006
Ho ricevuto lo stesso messaggio anche in Svizzera… attenzione!
21:13 on January 30th, 2006
30th jan 2006 (aussie in sweden)…….the dirty mongrels just called me….at 2100 for crying out loud! Soon as I heard the first 2 words of the recorded message I started laughing hehe……waited till they told me to press 9 and did it……….I was sooooooooooo bummed out when after 30 -40 seconds I realised the line was dead and I missed my chance to tell them to kiss my cake hole and that they should all be ashamed of themselves…..just hope this wont be a regular thing, the phone woke up the baby…….grrrrrrrrr
18:32 on February 2nd, 2006
Hi
Im from Sweden aswell and also got the call, but I didn’t bother to answer it since the number looked way too spooky
Let’s hope this story gets to the media so that no one gets scammed.
Sayonara
15:33 on February 3rd, 2006
Hi, it just happened to me too.. While reading all previous messages, I got my questions answered. Didn´t know about the scam before, so it was nice to find this site!
Take care!
Martina
17:20 on February 3rd, 2006
Hy There
Know they are also in Switzerland!!!
17:40 on February 3rd, 2006
Yep,got called in Switzerland at 17:15 02.03.06 Answered the phone, it was silent, so after 10 seconds I hung up.
matt
17:06 on February 7th, 2006
I just one of those calls too, but they have changed their number to: 001972490000.
It really scares you, because you don’t wanna end up with a large phonebill or something if it’s like a collect-call.
10:31 on February 8th, 2006
I have got the same call 1 day ago.
I live in Switzerland in a small city.
20:29 on February 8th, 2006
They called me too, scary. I got lucky ended up here before calling the number.
18:07 on February 9th, 2006
The just called me but i remeber hearing about the scam so i hung up before the ended the first sentence. I think it is scary! I just want to know which number they choose to call?!
19:02 on February 9th, 2006
Hello,
I am from Zurich Switzerland and I had too a call
today @ 09. February 2006 18:37
i pressed 9 after when i don’t heard anything i hung up.
maybe it is something like in the Movie "The Ring" ?
:nuts:
bye
keep in contact
09:21 on February 10th, 2006
Hi
Hopefully it’s not something like in "The Ring", otherwise I have only 7 days left aswell… :nuts:
Actually 6, they called yesterday afternoon, on several numbers we have. I wasn’t at home, so I didn’t have the pleasure to listen to what I would have won.
By the way, I also live in a village near Zurich, Switzerland.
14:22 on February 13th, 2006
Hi,
I’m from Switzerland and I just got the call from 009724900000 ten minutes ago … it was the "press 9" version …
I just hung up …
Does anyone know if they have a website and can give me the URL ?
(I know it’s a scam, I’d just like to search deeper ..)
02:31 on February 14th, 2006
G’day – just got a message left on our home telephone number "Congratulations etc…"
What happens when you dial the "ring free" number 0014078300147?
From my searching looks like they get you to call a toll number 1900 in Australia and these can cost $$$’s per minute and of course there is no cruise!
Thanks and regards,
Peter
19:07 on February 14th, 2006
Got the call an hour ago. Hung up. I live in Switzerland
20:03 on February 14th, 2006
I’m living in Zurich, Switzerland and have been called about half an hour ago. I wondered about the number 009724900000, so I googled it and ended up here. Do you think they are going through countries alphabetically? Sweden, Switzerland, maybe afterwards Syria or Taiwan? :nuts:
21:17 on February 14th, 2006
Hi! Looks like they’re going through the Zürich phonebook….also got the call, was nice to find this site! thanx
16:40 on February 16th, 2006
I got the phone call telling me I had won today, after they had told me to press 9 to "collect my prize" I did so because I’ve had about 10 of these calls.
The guy who answered the call said "how are you doing" and I said "not very well as I’ve just run to pick this call and did he know how many times he has phoned this number".
He then said "just give me your noumber so we can remove it". So I gave him my number and then he said "OK I’ll get it to ring you back every ten minutes have a nice day" and promptly hung up.
I feel like hanging him up at the moment.
John
Wexford, Ireland
17:50 on February 16th, 2006
I am also of Montreux in Swiss and received those phone, has hung up has
14:37 on February 17th, 2006
WTF… I also just received this phone-call. Thank god I can see how is calling, so I didn’t pick it up.. and after some research it was the right choice…
I live in Basel (Switzerland)..
Greets
21:55 on February 17th, 2006
I’m living in Switzerland too an got this phonecall too a week ago. I didn’t call back, just googled the number and ended here. So it looks as they are now harassing Switzerland. Wich country will be next?
17:13 on February 18th, 2006
I’m also living in Switzerland and I just got that same call with the cruise and the 9. Is this just a harmless thing, or you get scammed for it? Do I have to pay something now? I’m worried about that kind of surprises.
20:04 on February 20th, 2006
CH – I received one today in the evening. I was too late by the phone to answer it. First I thought it was maybe a friend and so I called back. They kicked me out of the line.
Cause of this I searched on the www for some informations about it. Now I see that I’m not the only person who was dialed.
20:35 on February 20th, 2006
Hi there !
I’m alsoliving in Switzerland and got the call today..but I had my answering machine on and did not answer cause I did not know the number.
Very stupid, people are doing such phone spam
Thanks for this site…just had google it and arrived here.
Cheers
09:50 on February 21st, 2006
Hello everybody!
We live close to Berne, Switzerland.
While I wasn’t home yesterday, I got one of these strange calls too!
As I didn’n know this number, I googeld and ended here! So I think, they really go through all the country!!
It must be funny to harassing people like this…:confused:
have a nice day!
16:02 on February 21st, 2006
Got a call (Switzerland too) a few minutes ago from this suspicious number (009724900000)…
I googled instantly and thanks to this website, I know what i have to do now – block the number on the phone and thats it for me!
19:08 on February 21st, 2006
Switzerland as well – i wasn’t at home, just saw the strange number and got here after some googling.
19:46 on February 22nd, 2006
Hi, I live in grison switzerland and became also a call of 009724900000 at app. 19:31 but i hung up after the computer voice sayed to press 9…
crazy
14:55 on February 23rd, 2006
I suppose Switzerland is next to Sweden in the alphabetical order… ‘t was my turn today:aghast: Well, at least it links people across counties and gives them something to blog about
19:46 on February 23rd, 2006
Hye all, yes I also suppose Switzerland is next to Sweden in the alphabetical order… it was my turn now and it seems they are going also in geographycal order… after north Switzerland, now it’s south Switzerland, near Lugano where I live… As I can see who’s calling me I didn’t answer.. then I googled instantly finding something about this number and I found this this website!! so the better thing is to not answer when we can see the number!! bye.. Sandrine (excuse me for my english!!)
11:07 on February 24th, 2006
Well good folks these yobs are calling numbers in Adelaide Australia. Similar line about the ".. win a cruise to the Bahamas .." blah blah.
My daughter answered the phone thinking that it was one of her friends, and also dialed the 9 number as requested. I believe that there was then a long pause during which she hung up. I do not have calling number ID so do not know where the call originated.
Thanks to Goooooooooogle
20:12 on February 24th, 2006
I(Switzerland as well) also got a call(but as a difference to others I know how to translate "bekommen":cool:)
16:49 on March 4th, 2006
I just got one too! Switzerland near Zurich.
20:08 on March 6th, 2006
HI, I’m from Switzerland (Lausanne) and just got this call ! It seems to come here in Switzerland, so be carefull !
Bye
19:19 on March 7th, 2006
Got it too.:nuke:
CH St.Gallen
Bye
17:50 on March 8th, 2006
just got that call a couple of minutes ago. my wanted ME to answer the call because of this strange number. well i hung up just after 2 seconds, don’t want to talk to a machine : >
fabio
switzerland
18:27 on March 9th, 2006
I got it too. :confused:
Housi, Wilderswil, Switzerland
20:58 on March 9th, 2006
Got the call to here in Winterthur/Switzerland.
Probably from the well known Nigeria Connection.
16:09 on March 10th, 2006
I’ve just missed the call from this strange number. Wondering who wanted to call me from Israel I googled the internet and ended up on this site! Living in a subburban aera near Bern (Switzerland), in a little town beginning with "Z", I think they just arrived at the end of the phone book!
17:36 on March 10th, 2006
They just called Zurich, Switzerland again. I wondered about the number 009724900000, so I googled it and ended up here.
So after Sweden, Switzerland, they might try to call Syria and Tahiti:confused:- so good luck
20:56 on March 12th, 2006
I also received the call:
02.03.06 18:53 009724900000
Anyone knows more about this? how are they tricking people exactly?
17:45 on March 15th, 2006
They called me too, 001972490000
:nuke:
Switzerland
01:32 on March 17th, 2006
Hi, I’m from the South of Switzerland, near Locarno and got this call
…
(009724900000) on 02.03.2006, at 19.04, in my absence…
Good, this site is existing, I actually was already wondering about some Arabian Emirates Country or something…
I just let it on my ISDN-display and did not yet check it out, so today I had some free minutes and ended up here…
Watch out, people, for not being cheated!!!
superlearning ltd, CH-6616 Losone, Switzerland
23:16 on August 24th, 2006
I was just called, and I live in Canada. Didn’t fall for the Scam though.
14:44 on August 29th, 2006
I got the call in Manitoba CANADA August 28, 2006. I would sure like to know if someone actually contacted the cruise line and got a good deal on a cruise or else just lost a pile of money?
03:41 on September 1st, 2006
Oh…so I’m not going to the Carribean??? ha ha! Just got the call here in Alberta Canada today and, luckily, tried to google the phone number as I couldn’t remember entering any contests!
Scammers! Thanks for the forewarning (though it definitely seemed too good to be true!!)
23:15 on September 11th, 2006
Hello everyone I’m from Red Deer Alberta. It seems these individuals who are doing this have found us as well. I too am interested in how they got my number. Shows that nothing is really secure these days.
Like the saying goes: If it sounds to good to be true, it most likely is. Thats why I thank Google & Battleangel for offering a means to get more information and to communicate with others.:grin:
Have a great one everyone.