0161 543 1538

Negative

Community overview

Community rating: Negative

8 user reports

First reported 20 Jul 2026 Last reported 19 days ago

About this number

Number formats

  • UK format: 0161 543 1538
  • International: +44 161 543 1538

Number details

Recent activity

UK visits
User Reports

Last 30 days: 151 UK visits and 3 public reports.

Reported categories

Based on 8 public user reports

Unknown Caller
38% (3)
Spam
25% (2)
Scam/Fraud
13% (1)
Telemarketer
13% (1)
Survey
13% (1)

User Reports (8)

Survey Phone call
19 days ago

Said they were undertaking a survey about my water supplier. I declined as not sure if it was genuine.

Reported caller: Independent water regulator
Unknown Caller Phone call
26 days ago

Did not answer as not a recognised number

Spam Phone call
28 days ago

Did not answer

Scam/Fraud Phone call
1 month ago

Water survey

Telemarketer
2 months ago

Claimed to be only conducting market research so TPS didnt apply

Unknown Caller
3 months ago

Asked if we would like to do a survey on our water supply but you can't be too careful these days so we hung up.

Unknown Caller
3 months ago

I picked up phone,and didn’t speak it was just silent with no one speaking on the other end for 2 minutes when I got bored and hung up, we are ex directory but still get numerous unwanted calls 🤷‍♂️

Spam
4 months ago

Someone about water. Not sure - hung up, sounded like a pre recorded message, someone called Brenda at 730pm at night

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