Unsolicited calls

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Does anyone get these. I'm registered with the Preferential blocking service but this call keeps coming through.
It's a scam and looks like a mobile number. They are trying to get us to pay money to keep an Amazon Prime account going and prevent someone scamming the account (I dont have an Amazon prime account).
Virgin say they cant block it and the Preferential call blocking say they cant stop scam calls just cold calls from companies.
Anyone had any luck stopping these. I know I dont have to answer or can hang it straight up but they ring several times a day from 3 am until late evening.
 
newusername said:
The only calls we get on our landline are our parents & scam calls.
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That was the same for us, my ma was the only one left, got her to start calling the mobiles on the basis she'd always get us wherever we were and she could get the kids as well. She's dead now as well, so it'd only be the scammers and spammers calling us.
 
I don't even know our landline number so no risk for us. Just unplug it. Landlines are dead. On a mobile you can block a number, maybe a fancier landline phone will be able to do that.
 
Not sure if it has worked but I always spend a little time to wind them up. So keep them talking and make it sound like you've been taken in. You can either try to set some sort of personal record as a challenge to yourself or just reach a point where you are about to give them the card details and then tell them to sod off. I got one "gentleman" from the subcontinent so wound up that he rang me back to swear at me some more.

Made my day. :ROFLMAO:

I suspect that they knock you off the "gullible" list after a while.
 
Muttley said:
Not sure if it has worked but I always spend a little time to wind them up. So keep them talking and make it sound like you've been taken in. You can either try to set some sort of personal record as a challenge to yourself or just reach a point where you are about to give them the card details and then tell them to sod off. I got one "gentleman" from the subcontinent so wound up that he rang me back to swear at me some more.

Made my day. :ROFLMAO:

I suspect that they knock you off the "gullible" list after a while.
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I used to do that as well, best result I got was with a nicely spoken Asian lady who was from "The Internet Company" and wanted to help me get rid of what it was that was causing my computer to freeze (it wasn't). She talked me through a few steps to get there starting with the button in the bottom left hand corner, but I was having tremendous difficulty at every step. After about 5 minutes it clicked - "You have a mac, haven't you?" It was the first thing she'd got right all afternoon. She slammed the phone down, then about 10 minutes later she called back and screamed at me "You're a c*ck sucking mother*cker, you b*stard".

Result. I was bad laughing.
 
I do the " interested" bit, then, when they're information I " pop" into the other room to get if.
I go back to the phone after a while and replace the receiver.
I did have one guy call me back, saying we had been disconnected, I did it again.
Sad but It does get you off at least one dialing list.
 
Getting rid of a landline isn’t a useful comment.

I wish I could help. If you find a solution please let me know. My mum gets nuisance calls all the time. I honestly think more should be done to crack down in it. It’s one thing I hate with a passion that could be described as fury. Praying on the vulnerable and needy.

also, what happens if you have a loved one in hospital, terminally ill? And you’re waiting for THAT phone call? And every few hours a scammer calls? This actually happens to me, which helps describe my hatred of them.

anyway really sorry I couldn’t help op
 
My next door neighbour before he died used to get dozens of calls everyday. He would also get the same amount in letters each day too. Coz he was in his 90's he believed every call and letter was genuine and always gave money or replied to letters. That just made him get many more calls and letters. He ended up spending thousands until we got his mail posted to our house and got rid of his landline.
 
Capybara said:
No they aren't.
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It's getting there. The vast majority of people that have a landline these days is for no reason other than because the ISPs insist on you having one if you want TV or Broadband. It is either a requirement or it's cheaper to get a bundle that includes one. Almost everyone has a mobile phone, the number of people that don't must be tiny. ISPs forcing unwanted landlines on us is a scam in itself. OFCOM should be putting a stop to it.

They are still used businesses and by the elderly, who are most likely to be taken advantage of when using them anyway. I can see why they are useful to businesses but it won't be too far in the future that nobody has one plugged in anymore.
 
Rarely use the landline now and as the phone has caller display I only answer call from numbers with names that i know
 
I have had a landline for nearly 15 years and the only people who have my number are my parents and sister (incase of emergency). It's purely in for broadband etc.

I've never given it out to anyone else. So if it rings its 99% sure to be a cold call. My parents or sister have never used it and if they did I wouldn't answer unless the left a voicemail.

I simply don't answer it. Yet it could ring twice a day. Soon as it goes to answer phone they hang up.

So some fecker has given my number out. I here sky were / are really bad for it.
 
Is it automated or a real person?

If it’s a real person answer it play along for awhile waste a load of their time then tell them you need to go check something say you will put them on hold and just put the phone against a really loud speaker and just leave it their they will hang up shortly after and scratch you off the list
 
My mam got a cold call once where they were offering a fantastic Insurance deal basically pay our instalments and you receive a fantastic lump sum for your family.

My mum then chatted them up for about 15 minutes getting all the details and could sense the girl on the other end of the phone was getting excited about the prospectof a capture.

Right at the end before financial details were to be passed over my mam said how quick can this policy come in and the pay out as I’ve only got four weeks to live.

The phone was slammed down as my mother was laughing.
 
boromike85 said:
I don't even know our landline number so no risk for us. Just unplug it. Landlines are dead. On a mobile you can block a number, maybe a fancier landline phone will be able to do that.
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The number changes all the time, so blocking a number isn't going to help.

Whether you like landlines or not, their quality is still far better than mobiles. And it won't be long before spammers start calling mobile numbers too.
 
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