Old service but now free international calls from O2 as well

[NewStarter]

Why on earth do they need customer's date of birth and 2xemail Ids apart from address.. ? Is it a safe website?

don't have to reveal your true birthday or email ids..

[delaro]

Yeap you can use your grandma's DOB 

[Doondie]

Yeap you can use your grandma's DOB 

I did just that.

Amazingly, this service works perfectly*. Many thanks to the author of the thread!

I just hope my bill stays the same.

For the record, I called a Bulgarian Landline from my O2 number (which should be free). The duration of the phone call was 8'10''. My mum (who was at my grandma's at the time) picked up pretty quickly (there was no dialling delay I mean) and the connection was crystal clean (more or less).

Will update 'my bill status' info tomorrow, as 12 hours is the maximum time for my (pay monthly) bill to refresh.


Follow-up:

18 Sep 10     18:36:57     075********     Weekend     00:08:12     0.000     F

Hooray!


*as strange as it may seem, I can call my grandma but not my mum, although they both have landlines, as well as mobiles (however, calling mobiles in Bulgaria is not worth it - £1/min is money down the pan; better call direct - 17 ppm).

[Doondie]

What do you make of this from their website, boys*?

Do you have any monthly Rentals for the Acecall Number?
You can have as many as Acecall numbers you want. The first Acecall number is free for the first month of your subscription, there after you will pay £1.00 per month until you wish to unsubscribe.

Is my account going to stop functioning unless I start paying a quid a month?


*In my experience, girls don't bother that much about cheap ways to make phone calls.

[ash]

Be careful guys!! I registered my mobile number with Acecalls to get free calls to India. With in a week I started getting calls on my mobile from a number claiming to be Barclays Fraud Prevention. I confirmed from Barclays and it wasn't their call. The mobile number I used to register is a new number and hardly been given elsewhere. I'm very suspicious about this company. Either they are misusing the numbers or selling these to third parties.

[razian97]

Be careful guys!! I registered my mobile number with Acecalls to get free calls to India. With in a week I started getting calls on my mobile from a number claiming to be Barclays Fraud Prevention. I confirmed from Barclays and it wasn't their call. The mobile number I used to register is a new number and hardly been given elsewhere. I'm very suspicious about this company. Either they are misusing the numbers or selling these to third parties.

a very bad news ....
one of my friend has lost 1300 pounds from his Barclays bank account.same thing happened with him,he received a call from a number claiming to be Barclays fraud prevention and asked some security questions about his account....and than after few hours he lost 1300 pounds from his account...so i don't know  is it due to using of this service or not but I must advise all of you to be careful
thanks
razian

[amitjajoo]

a very bad news ....
one of my friend has lost 1300 pounds from his Barclays bank account.same thing happened with him,he received a call from a number claiming to be Barclays fraud prevention and asked some security questions about his account....and than after few hours he lost 1300 pounds from his account...so i don't know  is it due to using of this service or not but I must advise all of you to be careful
thanks
razian

Nothing new here. People have been operating these kind of fraud services for a long time now. It is upto you to be careful and never divulge sensitive information over the phone rather go to a branch and sort out. I used their services on 3g for a long time last time around and there were no such calls. However, having said that, whether they sell the information or not, you have to be CAREFUL whenever bank details are concerned.

[davegr]

I signed up to this service a few weeks ago. No strange or unexpected texts yet...

[amitjajoo]

Anyone any updates if this still works on O2 line ? 

[djyhkr]

Yes it does work on O2 line. I have used it yesterday.

Jk

[amitjajoo]

Yes it does work on O2 line. I have used it yesterday.

Jk

Thanks for the update. 

[mantha2in]

Can somebody please point me to this service details through PM? Could not get any details out of the thread..

[potterified]

Ditto. Does it work on Orange too? Would appreciate a PM with details please.