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[Varche]

Fortunately my dad can’t hear the phone. Gosh what a lot of scammers out there.

In the last 24 hours we have had:

Two calls that failed on answer to be allocated  someone  at heir call centre.

One from “ you house is on the register as having been insulated. We have found a problem with damp as a result”

One from  “BT” .  Automated. “ We see you have been having problems with the internet press 1 if , press 2 if........”

One from  “ you qualify for a free replacement boiler  under some scheme or other”



Anyone else plagued with them?

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Such calls prey on the elderly and infirm.

I'm concerned for STMO when he is alone.

[Lizzie Zoom]

Oh, yes they are constant being at least 1 per week.

Last week it was a refund of £558 from HMRC................!!

Also last week, one "from Amazon" informing they were about to take £79.99 from me for my subscription with them, or press button 1............!!

Bastards!!

You can just imagine how these will escalate for the older folk receiving "assistance" calls to aid their shopping needs whilst isolated....!!

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Oh, yes they are constant being at least 1 per week.

Last week it was a refund of £558 from HMRC................!!

Also last week, one "from Amazon" informing they were about to take £79.99 from me for my subscription with them, or press button 1............!!

Bastards!!

You can just imagine how these will escalate for the older folk receiving "assistance" calls to aid their shopping needs whilst isolated....!!

Be careful Lizzie.......your days of being  a spring chicken are well behind you now.

[STEMO]

I got an email from a nice man from Nigeria. The poor chap has fallen on hard times but, luckily for him, he has just been bequeathed a very large sum from a long forgotten relative. If I advance him £1000 to tide him over, he will send me £5000 as some as he gets his inheritance.
Winner, winner, chicken dinner. 

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

I got an email from a nice man from Nigeria. The poor chap has fallen on hard times but, luckily for him, he has just been bequeathed a very large sum from a long forgotten relative. If I advance him £1000 to tide him over, he will send me £5000 as some as he gets his inheritance.
Winner, winner, chicken dinner. 

It is so lovely when people are suddenly able to smile again.

[Andy B]

Oh, yes they are constant being at least 1 per week.

Last week it was a refund of £558 from HMRC................!!

Also last week, one "from Amazon" informing they were about to take £79.99 from me for my subscription with them, or press button 1............!!

Bastards!!

You can just imagine how these will escalate for the older folk receiving "assistance" calls to aid their shopping needs whilst isolated....!!

Tuesdays seem to be the day we get loads of the bl**dy things.
I've had the call from HMRC too promising me a refund too .... there was something in the call about speaking to Liverpool plod but other than that he was almost impossible to understand (Indian/Pakistan with very poor English) In the end I suggested that to be able to scam anyone he'd be advised to improve his p1$$ poor English.
And if I had a quid for each call from Amazon about my Amazon Prime account, I could take early retirement! 

[Andy B]

I got an email from a nice man from Nigeria. The poor chap has fallen on hard times but, luckily for him, he has just been bequeathed a very large sum from a long forgotten relative. If I advance him £1000 to tide him over, he will send me £5000 as some as he gets his inheritance.
Winner, winner, chicken dinner. 

  Good news!   

[Lizzie Zoom]

Oh, yes they are constant being at least 1 per week.

Last week it was a refund of £558 from HMRC................!!

Also last week, one "from Amazon" informing they were about to take £79.99 from me for my subscription with them, or press button 1............!!

Bastards!!

You can just imagine how these will escalate for the older folk receiving "assistance" calls to aid their shopping needs whilst isolated....!!

Be careful Lizzie.......your days of being  a spring chicken are well behind you now.

    Watch it old man; you will be using your Royal London Life Insurance well before me!

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Oh, yes they are constant being at least 1 per week.

Last week it was a refund of £558 from HMRC................!!

Also last week, one "from Amazon" informing they were about to take £79.99 from me for my subscription with them, or press button 1............!!

Bastards!!

You can just imagine how these will escalate for the older folk receiving "assistance" calls to aid their shopping needs whilst isolated....!!

Be careful Lizzie.......your days of being  a spring chicken are well behind you now.

    Watch it old man; you will be using your Royal London Life Insurance well before me!

Nah.......I've decided to become immortal and not die. How hard can it be.

[Lizzie Zoom]

Oh, yes they are constant being at least 1 per week.

Last week it was a refund of £558 from HMRC................!!

Also last week, one "from Amazon" informing they were about to take £79.99 from me for my subscription with them, or press button 1............!!

Bastards!!

You can just imagine how these will escalate for the older folk receiving "assistance" calls to aid their shopping needs whilst isolated....!!

Be careful Lizzie.......your days of being  a spring chicken are well behind you now.

    Watch it old man; you will be using your Royal London Life Insurance well before me!

Nah.......I've decided to become immortal and not die. How hard can it be.

 

You'd better leave those women of the night a rest hen Opti!

[TheBoy]

Signing up to TPS ensures you get lots and lots of these

[Varche]

In Spain we get them with a spoofed believable number. You answer and no one there. Then a week later e actly the same time theyring again. Their algorythm knows you answered then.

[BazaJT]

I let the house phone ring to the answer machine then they either leave a message or not,if a message is left then I can decide to reply or not.Biggest part of the time no message is left.On my mobile I only answer that if it's a number known in it's memory and everyone I know generally uses text messaging.

[aaronjb]

I let the house phone ring to the answer machine then they either leave a message or not,if a message is left then I can decide to reply or not.Biggest part of the time no message is left.On my mobile I only answer that if it's a number known in it's memory and everyone I know generally uses text messaging.

I used to do that .. what I got was messages from various medical establishments for people that don't live here. Oh and occasionally 'Ethel' (no idea of the name, sounded about 1000 years old) asking if 'Janice' would be picking her up today.


The phone is no longer even plugged in.. that solved that nicely.

[Varche]

pretty archaic things landlines but money spinners for the internet providers.

[deviator]

Signing up to TPS ensures you get lots and lots of these

Really? All my numbers are on TPS, it didn't take long for them to stop calling me. Although I will say, you actually have to do something to stop the calls.

When you get a dodgy call, speak to the person, get their name, company name, address, phone number and record the time and date. I don't mention TPS until after I have the information. Once you have that information you can generate a complaint and if they are UK based, they can get a fine or shutdown.

I no longer get spam calls.

[Varche]

just had one.            signed up for Amazon, dial 1 etc

[TheBoy]

Signing up to TPS ensures you get lots and lots of these

Really? All my numbers are on TPS, it didn't take long for them to stop calling me. Although I will say, you actually have to do something to stop the calls.

When you get a dodgy call, speak to the person, get their name, company name, address, phone number and record the time and date. I don't mention TPS until after I have the information. Once you have that information you can generate a complaint and if they are UK based, they can get a fine or shutdown.

I no longer get spam calls.

What actually happens is you get a massive increase in calls that are explicitly not covered by TPS, which means all automated calls, and calls where they can make out its not a marketing cold call (easy to do).

Its to be expected, as TPS is run by the telemarketers, so by providing them with your number, you are saying that you are a person who doesn't let the answerphone take the call, and that you are potentially suggestable to becoming a profitable target.

TPS is there for the industry, not for the public. Much like GasSafe and the like

[TheBoy]

I let the house phone ring to the answer machine then they either leave a message or not,if a message is left then I can decide to reply or not.Biggest part of the time no message is left.On my mobile I only answer that if it's a number known in it's memory and everyone I know generally uses text messaging.

I used to do that .. what I got was messages from various medical establishments for people that don't live here. Oh and occasionally 'Ethel' (no idea of the name, sounded about 1000 years old) asking if 'Janice' would be picking her up today.


The phone is no longer even plugged in.. that solved that nicely.

I found my phone bill was mostly made up of calling everyone back, and speaking to their answerphones, as they also had the same idea


My physical landlines go into Asterisk, where they go around a really annoying  IVR, with only a single, not mentioned path to actually ring my phones (although a few numbers are in a bypass group).

My VoIP lines come into the same Asterisk, by straight through to the phones, and in 15yrs of having the same VoIP numbers, I have never, ever had a marketing call on any of them.  My physical lines are both TPS registered, and get around 7 a day each, looking at the phone logs.