Too many cold calls, wut do?

CoolUsername

*Hi, getting 3,4,5+ calls per day to landline.
*Some are silent calls, others are surveys or obvious scams. Most from withheld numbers
*Have TPS
*BT line pay quarterly
*O2 broadband
*Recently got BT caller ID, did not help.
*Don't use phone much (prefer facebook, email, internet foums, text messages), so >95% of inbound calls are spam.
*Seriously thinking about disconnecting phone line, as I don't use it much and could cope ok with just a mobile.
*Still need broadband

Wut Do?

Heinz

Read the CLI. If you don't recognise the number, don't answer the call.

yangptangkipperbang

My method:

1. I see who is calling. If the number is unknown or no CLI I let it go to the answer machine. This gets rid of 98% of the spam calls. A genuine caller will leave a message.
2. If there is then a UK number on my "unanswered calls" list, I Google the number, if it comes up as a known "pest", I put it into my 'phone as a barred number - I have quite a few in there now !

No problem......................

Addiscomber

Please could you give me suggestions for a landline phone that I can bar these pest numbers on without having to subscribe to a service?

macman

Disconnect the phone line?
No phone line, no ADSL broadband.
But you could just unplug the phone.

Basil1234

had same issues as you few years ago turned out the silient calls i was getting was a call dialler machine which keeps dialling out and soon as answered it hang up then in turn was selling details as active line so more spam calls found this out after bt did a trace report for me after a call.
solution to all of these change number to new one go exdirect and never ever give landline number out to anyone if i do they get mobile number except close friends or family. usually aloud a number change once in a while. stop all the hassle.

Be_Happy

Addiscomber wrote: »

Please could you give me suggestions for a landline phone that I can bar these pest numbers on without having to subscribe to a service?

I've just bought a Panasonic cordless phone that lets me bar up to 30 phone numbers, but must have the full number, UK or international, so no use with 'withheld' or 'out of area'. Does mean that you need caller display service to see the numbers.

yangptangkipperbang

Addiscomber wrote: »

Please could you give me suggestions for a landline phone that I can bar these pest numbers on without having to subscribe to a service?

This appears to be the current version of mine. The spec (on Amazon) doesn't say "call barring", but the reviews say that it does - perhaps they all do nowadays !


http://www.amazon.co.uk/Panasonic-KX-TG8522EB-Digital-Cordless-Machine/dp/tech-data/B003LPTAQQ/ref=de_a_smtd

Addiscomber

Thank you, yangptangkipperbang. very helpful. I had been searching on Amazon and Panasonic's own website, but it was taking forever.

Be_Happy wrote: »

Does mean that you need caller display service to see the numbers.

I don't see why I would need to subscribe. I've got 2 numbers ready to bar by using 1471 and old fashioned pencil and paper

Be_Happy

Not sure how it works without caller display. On phone you select call to bar from list of incoming calls and press sequence of keys to bar the number.

It could be that you can input number yourself, but I've never done it this way.