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My wild guess is one of their providers is doing this. To make it work they might only do it for say 1 out of 1000 calls. The will just get paid from the provider they are terminating this for.

But In this world companies come and go fast, there seems to be a trade market where you can buy volume for destinations at the lowest price. So in this market I can only assume that some use this scam. As they terminate the last part of the call it should be easy in a voip enviroment to setup a system where calls to a mobile numers are sent to an anserwing machine.

Because it's such a small problem I doubt that much action will be taken by providers and some of the companies they are using might allready be out of business or operate under a different name.

Also many people outside this forum don't know this problem exists, I did not before I read this articel and what luck same day I had a meesage. If i would not know better I might have dailed a wrong number and redialed to get the right person after the redial. I think it is this that many people don't care.