There's an auto-divert to a mobile or landline facility. That's really cheap compared with bricks and mortar premises in one of the world's most expensive cities. Create your own user feedback survey. All nonsense of course. Of course, some will be tempted to read all your secrets including bank log-ins while the machine is under their control. And then sell them. Microsoft has spent years telling computer users that these calls are dangerous rubbish but still they persist.
I always play them along for a bit. I thank them for coming to my aid because not only do I think my computer is not as fast as it was, I am also seeing flashing lights.
But where my call was more dangerous was the use of the London phone number to give the illusion of an organisation controlled here and under the auspices of English law. In a world where we are being asked to prove our own identity countless times each month, how can we have a system where organisations can pretend to be in one place but are actually in another thousands of miles away?
It's time to get rid of costly non-geographic numbers such as or and insist that if an apparently geographic number says you are in Belfast or Birmingham or Brighton, then you should really be there. Until then, the best thing to do if you're contacted out the blue is to simply hang up the phone. Want more stories like this? More on scams: The sneaky Companies House scam. Don't be duped by the Council Tax fraudsters.
Don't fall for these will scams. Thinking about investing in a London-based landline? Not as well known as its and siblings, an number is a relatively new London landline with an interesting and wildly confusing history. The area code is like any other district prefix. As shown in the above image, the code serves both inner and outer London.
The area code has had an interesting and confusing history. Most people have come to think different combinations of the prefix mean different things. More precisely, different locations. For example, most people recognise the version as a number that indicates an operator in inner London, while an prefix is perceived as a set of digits used in outer London. The confusion stems from a system used in the early nineties before more landline combinations were available.
In this time, the and allocations were usually kept to inner and outer London. However, in , more landline combinations — including the number — became available due to high landline demand. Booming business in London and the need for a phone line connection to enable broadband meant a new digit combination was needed on the market.
The clear cut truth is, only the first three digits indicate location. The rest of the number is randomly allocated. This is why callers dial London numbers with a space following the area code. Although technically an number could either be an inner or outer London landline, as opposed to a strictly inner London operator, the general public still have a warped perception of this. For this reason, buying an or landline is a better bet than an number. Customers are likely to mistakenly recognise this number as an inner London landline and deem the business associated with the prefix as more impressive and central to the big city.
An obvious benefit of the number is it is associated with London as a whole — and even mistaken as an inner London landline. On the whole, numbers are a natural choice for plenty of companies. Their central location, worldwide recognition and availability are big plus points for investing in the mysterious prefix.
This is evidenced by how many authoritative organisations are beginning to use numbers for their external communications. Image courtesy of area-codes. Highly trusted organisations such as the BBC and The Guardian and Observer newspapers, as well as major corporations such as Bank of England and Transport for London, have all adopted numbers. When you take this into account, an prefix is an up and coming contact number.
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