I am Being Charged For a Number I Have Never Rang.

Please can anyone help me with this issue; below is a copy of a message I sent tonight to BT, which explains my problem. I only discovered this today after checking my recent bill.
My phone bills have significantly increased since Sept 2010. I haven't checked my bills until the recent one I was sent this month.I have discovered that I appear to be dialling the same premium rate number on average anything from 4 to as many as 9 times a day for the same duration of around 0.06 secs. The calls are made at various times around the clock and there are normally two in quick succession and they were even made while we were on holiday and the house was empty.
The number I am supposed to have dialled is 08706 060634 I googled it earlier as well and spotted one post with the number titled "phone scam", when I clicked on it and it didn't really take me anywhere, but was posted by somebody else in some forum.
Myself and my partner have never rang this number until tonight following a conversation with BT's helpline. I discovered it was a line that answered with an unfamiliar high pitched beep. Your call centre people in India insisted that the calls are coming from my number and the above number , "was a call centre or booking line and was none geographical with lightining detection", (whatever that means)?
I have just subscribed to view my bills online this evening and checked them.
Basically this number appeared on my Sept-Dec bill as rang 255 times at a cost to me of £37.35.
My Dec to March bill it appears as rang 918 times at a cost of £138.69.
And this current bill March-June as rang 345 times at a cost of £55.37.
Please could you look into this for me as a matter of urgency, as I think I am a victim of a phone scam and am on the verge of phoning the police. This is obviously not going to stop unless I take drastic action.
Thank you.
Can anyone in this forum help me with this or make a suggestion to what it may be? The only things I have attached to my phone line is my Sky and broadband for my wireless.
Thanks
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Update:-
Result!! I have checked my usage since Friday and the number has not been dialled. However this still doesn't conclude the issue as I presume if I ever took off call barring it would resume.
So I emailed BT again this morning and their billing team rang me this afternoon; after explaining everything all over again someone else checked my line and the rogue number and said it was my house alarm system dialling out.
Now I did have a contract with ADT, taken out in 2002 BUT cancelled it back in 2006 or thereabouts. So I rang ADT and they informed me I was no longer under contract for their services. I explained to them the problem and they checked the number and are sending an engineer out on Monday. The operator wouldn't admit that it was their problem, but he must have recognised the number to arrange an engineer visit. If this turns out to be the case then I will have to chase them for my money back and will have to request to view all my bills going back over 5years!!
Hopefully I found the cause and will post again after their visit.
I am going for a long lie down now and a strong drink!!!

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