Nuisance calls - does this old trick still work?

lincroft1710

Is anyone else getting calls from Indian sounding callers "updating their records" and asking if you've got Sky. Had two recently, one wanted to know why I wanted his company's name and rang off when I said I don't give out info to unknown callers. Other one rang off when I told him they should know if I have Sky or not.

irenee

I had one the other day about 'Do you have Sky??'

"Oh, yes" I said "It's beautiful tonight, I can see Ursus Major, Swan, Orion, Andromeda, Canis Minor, Pegasus, ......................"

Funnily they put the phone down - mind you I was lying - it was mid-afternoon and pouring with rain :rotfl:

lincroft1710

irenee wrote: »

I had one the other day about 'Do you have Sky??'

"Oh, yes" I said "It's beautiful tonight, I can see Ursus Major, Swan, Orion, Andromeda, Canis Minor, Pegasus, ......................"

Funnily they put the phone down - mind you I was lying - it was mid-afternoon and pouring with rain :rotfl:

Yes, I thought about saying something similar next time they ring. Or saying "Yes I can get Sky News on Freeview".

I just wonder why they want to know.

mostlycheerful

I've been inundated with scam and spam calls for years, sometimes five or six a day, occasionally a few days without any then they start up again.

So for years now I don't answer the phone and then check the voicemail and or do a 1471 to see if it's a number from someone I know. And if it is then I call them back.

Tried to get BT to get the caller display to work but they failed to enable it and after several tedious calls I gave up on them, they're so often hopeless, just too stupid and inefficient to sort stuff out. The phone works, I checked it on another line but, no, BT doesn't work. No chance.

So that's it, I just put up with the phone ringing all the time from weirdos and wrong'uns.

I did think for a while that if I answered then hung up when it starts with the recorded messages or told the numpties when it's a live twit that I don't want their nonsense that that might reduce the frequency but it didn't seem to stop the torrent of filth.

So that's it, yet another of the long long list of gross acute failures of the UK government which continues to fail to stop the vast amounts of menace and harrassment afflicting nearly everyone nearly all the time. They're all negligent, incompetent, useless, uncaring, unfit for purpose.

Same old, same old.

Dave_C_2

mostlycheerful wrote: »

So that's it, yet another of the long long list of gross acute failures of the UK government which continues to fail to stop the vast amounts of menace and harrassment afflicting nearly everyone nearly all the time. They're all negligent, incompetent, useless, uncaring, unfit for purpose. Same old, same old.

Agreed.
Why doesn't the TPS stop these calls?
But it's not only government that's failing us why has BT not stopped these calls by default?
If Trucall can do it why can't BT offer this as standard?*
Why doesn't ACR stop these calls?
Come on BT get your finger out.

*One of my favourite vents, a system where the majority of consumers are given the run-around because a minority of the consumers would otherwise be slightly inconvenienced.
For example 1% of BT residential Customers want to receive international calls without paying extra for the service and 99% of the rest of us have to put up with the phone calls from India.

Dave

k0nstantine

lincroft1710 wrote: »

Is anyone else getting calls from Indian sounding callers "updating their records" and asking if you've got Sky. Had two recently, one wanted to know why I wanted his company's name and rang off when I said I don't give out info to unknown callers. Other one rang off when I told him they should know if I have Sky or not.

It's funny you mentin Sky. We only started having these phone calls after switching broadband to Sky :S

pauletruth

we were pestered by the microsoft scammers. once a day. so i wrote the northern polices hq number down. next time they phoned they asked for the wife as she is the name on the phone. making out that i was dumb i said sorry you need to speak to the wife and gave them the number. they asked who do they ask for i said wpc

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at the fraud section. they said good one and hung up. strangly there was a wave of english callers before they switched to the indian ones.

Fridaycat

aloise wrote: »

I couldn't afford £100 for one of those.

I didn't actually "pay" for mine in the strictest sense of the word. I saved up all my Amazon vouchers that I get from doing surveys and also converted my Nectar points into Amazon vouchers, and bought it from Amazon when I had enough in vouchers to pay for it.

grayme-m

ukjoel wrote: »

Try asking them what they are wearing and telling them how nice they sound, do they have a boy/girlfriend, they usually hang up before I get to the moany noises. Nowone has lasted more than 90 seconds to date and the record for them terminating the call is 9 seconds.

The wife and I are quite competitive about it and look forward to these calls now.

I've put my son on when he was three for a chat, and I told a debt relief company I owed £1.47 in debts (they wanted more details despite this), but next time I am coming on to them, male or female! :rotfl:

Mandy-Mae

Asian Scam callers claiming to be from 'Microsoft' unfortunately can't be deterred using the Caller Preference Service simply because the calls come from an 'Unavailable' Indian switchboard. I bought a whistle which reaches 108 decibels but that hasn't put the b

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s off either so clearly doesn't work with modern phones. As for assault? Oh puh-leeease! What -when THEY are the criminals? They're hardly likely to open a law suit from India as they would have to identify themselves and potentially the whole scam in order to do so). I think that in these cases telephone companies should be obliged to issue customers with the same 'howler' technology that they employ when customers leave a phone off the hook. Loud, unpleasant and effective. Meanwhile when I next get a call, I'm just not going to say anything. Let them run up a bill.....