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A Stockport woman says she’s been bombarded with flirty messages from a smooth-talking call centre worker in South Africa.

Adele Berry, 21, was put through to an operator 8,000 miles away when she called Vodafone to complain about a bill.

But just a few days after the call handler sorted out a refund – she was stunned to receive a string of messages from the worker, named Miguel, jokingly calling himself her “future hubby”.

Since then she has been swamped with further unsolicited Whatsapp messages as well as a picture from her unwelcome Romeo.

One of the texts said: “It’s Miguel from Vodafone or future hubby. Wow I knew you beautiful but damn you’re beautiful.”

Miguel said he would the “buy all the shoes you want” and also included a snap of himself.

Other messages ask after “future in-laws”.

Adele, who lives in Reddish, said she had passed the time of the day with Miguel when she made the initial complaint during her March 6 conversation, to fill “dead air” but did not expect to be hearing back from him.

She told the MEN: “He said what are you going to buy and I said ‘probably some shoes’.

“He told me his family lives nearby in Liverpool. He knows my address – what’s to say he turns up at my address?

“It is quite scary, it is quite distressing. He won’t leave me alone. Being pestered by someone I don’t know gets me quite nervous.”

Adele, who also works as a customer adviser, insists she did nothing to encourage the unwanted attention.

But having received 18 messages from ‘Miguel’, she has tried to stem the tide of messages, making several complaints to Vodafone and even contacting police.

However, she did not get a response from the mobile phone firm until the M.E.N. intervened yesterday.

A spokeswoman for Vodafone said the pest employee has since been suspended while the matter was investigated.

The spokesman said: “We take any allegations of this kind extremely seriously.

"We have spoken to Ms Berry and the adviser concerned has been suspended pending a full investigation.”