[Closed] Nuisance calls

It's a bit rubbish. We used to get loads, not so much now, tend not to answer withheld numbers.

I bought my mum a BT - I think - phone that could block withheld numbers and invite them to leave a message - but it didn't ring out as it were. I know that's not the problem, but it does seem to trap a lot of these calls and I'm pleased for my mum.

questionable legality but I'd keep a good whistle by the phone

a BT phone that could block withheld numbers and invite them to leave a message - but it didn't ring out

Exactly this

Get yourself one of these.... £40 job's a good 'un. No more nuisance calls.

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We nearly always let incoming calls go to answer phone which is set to kick in after three rings. Something about the recorded message and the tone causes randoms and automated calls to hang up.

May be worth a try

try this

http://www.tpsonline.org.uk/tps/index.html

I've been on the tps list for years, it doesn't stop them. I love the recordings that start with 'Hi, don't hang up because you've.....' OOooooooooooooooo!

Firstly get on the tps list, you can do the same for postal stuff too.

Secondly if no number comes up let it go to answer phone.

These calls are very annoying not least as many are just recordings and increasingly they ring your mobile 👿

I get a few every day on the landline.

Which is strange as I don't know the number and have never used it. The only people who know it are TalkTalk and BT, they both deny selling my details on and I'm ex-directory.

😕

A trucall device will also screen out unwanted calls.

I get a few every day on the landline.

Which is strange as I don't know the number and have never used it. The only people who know it are TalkTalk and BT, they both deny selling my details on and I'm ex-directory.

I suspect they re-use numbers. The very first call I got on my new landline before I even knew the number myself was a cold caller.

I had one yesterday, picked up the phone and a recorded voice said "Are you being plagued by nuisance calls? We bet the answer is yes. We have the answer. At any time during this call press 5 to purchase..."

I pressed 5 hoping to get a person so I could get some details and report them but it hung up on me. 👿

Just don’t have a landline? Assuming you can get a mobile phone signal, their packages for calls seem always to be better than landlines anyway. Speculative callers tend not to like ringing mobiles as they cost more to call.

Rachel

I just never pick up. Not that we are badly bothered, but we don't get many valid calls either on the land line (which we only got for the broadband).

I usually leave them on hold while I find the accident details.
Start with 30 seconds pauses and gradually build up. Have a chat with the wife about where she left them. "Well it was your bloody accident!"

36 minutes is the record.

Yes, it's a landline which I hardly use these days.

My wife though seems to talk forever on the landline in the evenings, she must have run out of words by now....

I find them annoying due to them ringing at the same sort of times each day, and it could actually be something important. My son needs medical care and it could be doctors etc. So I tend to answer.

Had a call this morning from another Indian call centre , where I explained that I didn't want to speak to him about anything, he said that he wouldn't bother me if I just answered his questions.
I told him where to go as I lost my rag a little , and said that all the calls where being recorded and would be used as evidence of harassment in court.

Early days, but it hasn't rung since.

Hasn't worked, been rung twice in the last 15 minutes.

You really should just let it go to the answering machine. Any valid caller will start to leave a message, you can pick up at that point. It's not like you'll miss anything important.

Yes,you are right, it's just got the better of me really.