Call from business in Wellington showing up on caller ID as being a call from Germany. Why?

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#288627 13-Jul-2021 12:34

I had a call from a car dealer (big one) in Wellington and it showed up on my phone as being from Germany. The caller was as surprised as I was.

Why would that happen?

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#2743614 13-Jul-2021 12:39

hacked PABX routing calls to MITM and generate money from fees?

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#2743620 13-Jul-2021 12:56

Did the actual number show up as from Germany (+49) or was it shown as 04 but with Germany shown in text?

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#2743622 13-Jul-2021 12:58

Considering +649 is Auckland, Id say its routing through an Auckland PABX which is excluding presenting the 6 for some reason.

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#2743627 13-Jul-2021 13:07

Geektastic: I had a call from a car dealer (big one) in Wellington and it showed up on my phone as being from Germany. The caller was as surprised as I was.

Why would that happen?

It was BMW, Audi or Merc?

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#2743629 13-Jul-2021 13:16

Behodar:
Did the actual number show up as from Germany (+49) or was it shown as 04 but with Germany shown in text?

0049 Bottrop, Germany.

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#2743633 13-Jul-2021 13:21

Don't mention the war.

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#2743658 13-Jul-2021 14:10

GV27:

Don't mention the war.

My best mate is German...he often says that in a very exaggerated German accent - he finds Fawlty Towers humour to be somewhat hilarious.

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#2743769 13-Jul-2021 17:48

Could be an issue with the VAR Telco routing. I've never used 2Talk, but I would imagine the same thing could happen to them.

I regularly call AU from NZ using a softphone from RingCentral loaded onto my computer. There have been numerous instances where the recipient of my call mentioned that it came through as a US call.

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#2743770 13-Jul-2021 17:50

It's just going to be badly formatted caller ID being sent, and the "helpful" cellphone location information getting confused.