Wrong telephone number, more chance of winning the lottery?

any one else had a strange thing happen to them when they accidently misdialed, was phoning my hubby and a girl answered, who's that i asked?, it me racheal aunty val. weird i said, what you doing on roberts phone. i'm not racheal replied, it's my phone. her mobile phone number which i did not know at that time, was one digit out from my hubby's. whats the chances of that happening to anyone and getting a member of your own family?

this was not a landline , but an eleven digit mobile number

The odds of a wrong number in the same area code being one specific person is about 10,000,000-1. But many area codes have the same first three digits (after the area code) for a similar geographical area, so then you are down to 10,000 - 1.

The odds of Powerball are about 115,000,000-1. So you are more likely to dial seven random numbers on the phone and get someone you know, than you are to win the lottery.

Freaky

Assumptions:

a) the "lottery" is 37 choose 6 for the grand price
hence the odds of winning is 37*36*35*34*33*32
= 1 in 1,673,844,480

b) You have to dial all 11 digits to get the cell phone number and in the phone number cannot start with 0,1,or 9
hence the odds of hitting a specific number in random is
7*10^10 = 1 in 70,000,000,000

Which means that the odds of what you discribed are roughly equals to winning the lottery 41.82 time.