A DISABLED woman is receiving dozens of telephone calls a day meant for an international packaging company, following an error from a communications company.

The BT blunder means that Moz Dent, from West Auckland in County Durham, receives numerous unwanted calls every day.

Since having her new line installed last month, every time a fax is sent to Smurfit UK's head office, also in West Auckland, her phone rings.

The packaging firm - part of the Jefferson Smurfit Group, one of the largest European based manufacturers of paper based packaging products - has vowed to change their fax number after hearing of Mrs Dent's plight.

Meanwhile BT were carrying out an investigation into how the busy fax number came to be assigned to her.

"I must have had 46 in one night, during the night," said Mrs Dent, who runs a tattoo parlour in nearby Bishop Auckland.

"I'm not well and I'm getting no sleep. It's been horrendous."

She moved from Darlington last month and after being given her new number, called more than 100 friends and relatives, including those in Jamaica, Greece, Turkey and Amsterdam.

But since moving in properly on April 14, she has received many more calls from people trying to fax Smurfit.

She said: "I rang a few of them back and they were all saying 'we wanted Smurfit'. The number is on the side of their vans and everything.

"It's been mayhem. I'm really fed up of it."

John Taylor, from Smurfit, said: "From our point of view, once we did find out that Mrs Dent was having these problems, we said we would do anything in our power to help."

The company have now asked BT to give them a new fax number, but Mrs Dent still fears she will continue to receive calls from people unaware that the number has changed for months to come.

A spokesman for BT said: "We are looking into this. It's an ongoing investigation. Our records show the number had not been in use since August 2003. We have made an offer to renumber her."