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  • IvanOpinion
    IvanOpinion Posts: 22,136 Forumite
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    badmemory said:
    I don't mind calls to my landline too much as I just dial 1572 & it is sorted.  But I have had my mobile no for years & had no unwelcome calls.  5 years ago someone hit my car & the insurance company insisted (yes I do mean insisted, like they wouldn't proceed) if they didn't have a mobile number.  Since then my mobile keeps ringing, when I have a signal which is why I rarely use it unless away from home.  I am sick of them flattening my battery & ringing when I am driving.  I remain convinced that the insurance company or one of their associates sold my number.  It is the only logical conclusion.
    I also think that it has been through an insurance my number has got out.
    I don't care about your first world problems; I have enough of my own!
  • IvanOpinion
    IvanOpinion Posts: 22,136 Forumite
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    Since I wrote the OP I have had 8 attempts to reach me from one 0161 number (fortunately it was easy to find it was a parasite number through the web).  Also had two 077 and an 0151 parasite abusing my phone number.
    I don't care about your first world problems; I have enough of my own!
  • NBLondon
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    daveyjp said:
    Thats an old piece, but this from a tech reporter surprised me:

    "The other question which I wanted answered was how the firm had got hold of my number - which I've listed with the Telephone Preference Service in order to avoid getting these calls."

    I have known about autodialling for at least 20 years.  The callers don't have any number, the auto dial system dials thousands of numbers an hour.  Many don't exist, but many others do.  If the number results in a connection it confirms the number exists and it stays on the database of the autodialler, this list can then be sold.
    The reporter may well already know - but it's been put into the piece for the benefit of the unaware reader/listener.
    You can sometimes tell an auto-dialler by the fact that it cuts off as soon as your phone goes to VoiceMail or answerphone.  That still fools some people who will ring back to see who called them - I don't.
    I need to think of something new here...
  • badmemory
    badmemory Posts: 9,637 Forumite
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    I have a friend that I have told several times NOT to ring back a missed call & never to press one (or whatever) when an unknown called asks you too.  Due to shielding I haven't seen her for a few months.  She got scammed 3 times last month & yes 2 of them were call backs to missed calls the other was a press one type call.  I dread to think what her bank account is going to say.  Of course no online banking or access at all.  She's almost 20 years younger than me & I am beginning to worry about her dementia status because this is how it often starts.  I've suggested that she calls me before she rings back so I can google the number but that hasn't happened & I know that when they have got you once you are on their victim list.  An additional worry is that she is the carer for her much older father & his assets are much more & she could land up making both of them homeless. 
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