Wally wrote:
> Basically....I bought a pre-paid V3 from Telstra everything went fine
> for a couple of weeks then I received a letter from Telstra stating
> that I had been making nuisance calls to a particular #, not just a
> couple of calls but something like 10-15 per day continuously day after
> day (these supposed calls did not show up in the recent calls made list
> of the phone), now just to give an insight into the # that I was
> supposed to be ringing imagine a # ... ****11** my home phone # is
Isn't there a way to use the bluetooth connection to dial thru your
phone? In other words someone would pair his phone to yours and dial
away? In my Nokia e62 i have to option... "Remote SIM Mode" and it's-
"Select ON to enable another device to use the sim card in your device
to connect to the network." And I know that the motorola V3 is
bluetooth enabled cos that was my old phone.

Just an idea.

K.M.

> ****44** so it was identical to my home phone except for the double #'s
> shown.
>
> I contacted Telstra insisting that I had not made those calls to that
> #....they were at a loss for any other explanation other than I had
> made those calls!
> I mentioned it to my dad who insisted that just as a precaution we swap
> phones (handsets) he then put his Telstra sim ($10 plan) in my handset
> a few days later another letter from Telstra showing that nuisance
> calls were now being made from his # which was in my handset.
> So we now had two members of our family recorded as having made
> nuisance calls to the same # (confirmed as the same # by Telstra) and
> they all originated from the same handset, my dad phoned Telstra
> several times trying to make some sense of it all ...one tech said yes
> the handset can do that regardless of the sim but would not explain
> how, another said that it could not do that ...and a third was
> undecided.
>
> My dad took the phone to a Telstra shop and asked for the phone to be
> deleted of all software and reloaded as per original specs...they said
> that they could not do that but they could sell us another plan, we
> explained that it was not the plan which was at fault as no matter
> which sim was put in that handset the unwanted calls would appear on
> that bill.
>
> In desperation we went home and trawled the net for information on how
> or what could be done ourselves we soon discovered that as a Mac
> household that was doubly difficult as most of the info is PC
> orientated...but eventually we did manage to flash the phone with a
> stock Moto MP.....in the last three weeks according to our latest bill
> there have been no more calls made other than regular ones!
>
> So can anyone offer an explanation how a handset can make such calls
> regardless as to which sim card is in it, and what could have
> instigated such behavior.
>
> As for Telstra they didn't hesitate in scrubbing all costs associated
> with the bogus phone calls but were completely at a loss to explain how
> it could have happened.
>
> Just as an aside.... before going the software route to hopefully fix
> the problem and just for confirmation we locked the phone away in a
> draw for two days so that there could be no doubt about human
> intervention and during that two days the phone bill showed 21 calls
> made to the same # ....from a locked drawer?