Who called me from a Sure (Isle of Man) Limited number?

Sure (Isle of Man) Limited is a UK communications provider. That means Ofcom has allocated Sure (Isle of Man) Limited one or more blocks of UK telephone numbers under the National Telephone Numbering Plan, which Sure (Isle of Man) Limited can either use for its own customers or sub-allocate to resellers and downstream providers. In total, Sure (Isle of Man) Limited currently holds 7 allocated number blocks in our copy of the Ofcom plan.

Sure (Isle of Man) Limited's number ranges are concentrated in 01624 (Isle of Man), 07624 (Isle of Man Mobile), 074. Across all of its allocations the split is roughly 4 geographic landline, 3 mobile blocks. You can use the tables below to jump straight to a specific Sure (Isle of Man) Limited area code or number block and see the common call patterns reported for it.

The oldest Sure (Isle of Man) Limited number block in the Ofcom data was allocated in 2006, and the most recent in 2021. Allocation dates matter because a number that has been live for many years is more likely to be a settled business or residential line, whereas a very recently-allocated block is more commonly seen in VoIP and virtual-number services — the kind sometimes used for short-lived marketing or scam campaigns.

Is a Sure (Isle of Man) Limited number safe to answer? In most cases, yes — the overwhelming majority of calls from any UK provider's range are ordinary, legitimate calls. However, two things are important to understand. First, because Sure (Isle of Man) Limited can sub-allocate or resell its numbers, the fact that a number sits in a Sure (Isle of Man) Limited block does not mean Sure (Isle of Man) Limited itself is calling you. Second, UK caller IDs can be spoofed: scammers can make a call appear to come from a Sure (Isle of Man) Limited number they don't control. So treat the number as a clue, not proof — judge the call on what the caller actually asks for.

If a Sure (Isle of Man) Limited number called you and you're unsure, don't share security details, bank information or one-time passcodes, and don't return the call until you've verified it independently. You can block the specific number on any UK smartphone from the recent-calls list, enable free network-level call screening through your own landline provider, and register with the Telephone Preference Service (TPS) to cut legitimate marketing calls. Persistent nuisance calls can be reported to Ofcom, and suspected scams to Action Fraud (or Police Scotland on 101).