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[ronnyd]

When I'm home I never answer the house phone directly.I always let it run to the answer phone then if it's someone I know or they've left a message that I feel warrants a response I phone them back.

+1 

[Bigron]

Best way, Baza, because if you answer, even if it's only to say politely to Foxtrot Oscar, you have shown that your line is active, so they know to call again, and again.....
Leaving it unanswered does deter.

Ron.

[Lizzie Zoom]

Best way, Baza, because if you answer, even if it's only to say politely to Foxtrot Oscar, you have shown that your line is active, so they know to call again, and again.....
Leaving it unanswered does deter.

Ron.

That,s fine if your line is not receiving potentially urgent calls where an immediate response is required, but that is not the situation with me.   

[VXL V6]

Best way, Baza, because if you answer, even if it's only to say politely to Foxtrot Oscar, you have shown that your line is active, so they know to call again, and again.....
Leaving it unanswered does deter.

Ron.

That,s fine if your line is not receiving potentially urgent calls where an immediate response is required, but that is not the situation with me.   

Seems you have the wrong line class then.

[Rods2]

Best way, Baza, because if you answer, even if it's only to say politely to Foxtrot Oscar, you have shown that your line is active, so they know to call again, and again.....
Leaving it unanswered does deter.

Ron.

That,s fine if your line is not receiving potentially urgent calls where an immediate response is required, but that is not the situation with me.   

I guess that is one of the burdens in running the global hotlines for U.N.C.L.E and International Rescue.

[Lizzie Zoom]

Best way, Baza, because if you answer, even if it's only to say politely to Foxtrot Oscar, you have shown that your line is active, so they know to call again, and again.....
Leaving it unanswered does deter.

Ron.

That,s fine if your line is not receiving potentially urgent calls where an immediate response is required, but that is not the situation with me.   

I guess that is one of the burdens in running the global hotlines for U.N.C.L.E and International Rescue.

Very funny!

[redelitev6]

  Our phone is now unplugged for the majority of the time , just got sick of calls from "customer support" and the like , if family need to speak to us they ring the mobile ,everybody else can go away (to put it politely ) !

[Lizzie Zoom]

But why should you be inconvenienced by these bastards?

Blowed if I will let them win anything from me

[2boxerdogs]

A recent one I had all I did was shout loudly "Sarge have you reported a fault on the serious crime computer ?" Needless to say the line went dead.

[Lizzie Zoom]

A recent one I had all I did was shout loudly "Sarge have you reported a fault on the serious crime computer ?" Needless to say the line went dead.

That's the way!!

[TD]

I let all my calls goto answer machine....its in monitor mode, so I can hear whos leaving a message.....its usually only my mum who calls my landline number (everyone else calls my mobile)....and when she starts to leave a message I pick the phone up....no message left then its not important....simples 

Even with my mobile, if only number is displayed I ignore it and let it goto answer service 

[tunnie]

Use one of these with your laptop, see how long you can keep the conversation going 

https://celebdial.com/c/arnold-schwarzenegger

[TheBoy]

Just to warn you all that I had a telephone call this morning from an Indian sounding gentlemen purporting to be from BT.

He tried to convince me that my Broadband connection had been "compromised by criminals"  - there was "Criminals using my connection", and he (tried) to explain that my constant blue light on my router without any other flashing lights proved his case.  I told him he was a scammer and fxck off!  He phoned back and complained about the way I spoke to him as he was trying to help me; to which I replied "you are a scammer, fxck off and I am going to ring BT!  I put the phone down.

Unusually both his calls gave an ID - 07586084673   and    01639 790466

All this has been reported to BT's Fraud Department and they will pursue the case.

Be careful!

And repeat the same scam claiming to be from any company. Microsoft scams are doing the rounds again.


FYI, BT does have the ability, if you enable it, to look at your traffic patterns, and both protect you and warn you if your PC looks compromised.  But the advice (no matter who it claims to be - BT, MS, your bank0 is to call back, ideally from a different phone.  If you can't, and have to use same phone, do stunts like check for dial tone, purposely misdial a couple of times, call a friend first - anything to ensure the scammers aren't holding your line open