Voice text

[Ponyman]

Yesterday my phone rang with caller id showing my own number. When I answered it I was told there was a voice text, press 1 to play, 2 to save 3 to delete. I pressed 1 and listened to the message and as I was busy pressed 2 to save so I could listen again later. I assumed that 1571 would take me to it, but 1571 is unobtainable! Vodafone technical support assure me they don’t provide this service so who does and how do I get back to the saved message?

[Jayach]

I suspect it was BT Text. All About BT Text | BT Help

[Ponyman]

I don’t see where BT come into it. To try it out I have just sent a text message from my Vodafone mobile to my Vodafone landline. My landline phone rang showing my landline number as caller I’d and it read me the message I had sent!

[Jayach]

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@Ponyman wrote:

I don’t see where BT come into it. 

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I have received "texts to voice" on my home phone, and it was the BT service that did it.(and I have never been on BT) 

I was just "spam", so I ignored it, although I think I was intrigued and tried to listen to it again, but couldn't figure out how to get it back.

I've just tried a couple of times to text my Vodafone home number from my mobile, like you did, but they just seem to disappear into the ether. 

[Ponyman]

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@Jayach wrote:

it was the BT service that did it.

How do you know?

[Jayach]

From memory, the number the voice text came in on was not mine, and when I looked it up it was BT text.

I was really surprised about it at the time.

[Cynric]

@Ponyman It's a common spam technique to set the caller ID to the called number.