Think this is a scam :(

[Pigmy Pony]

I've said it before, and I'll say it again. Call blocker. Stops them all. The phone doesn't even ring. If I had nothing else to do I guess I might have 'fun' stringing someone along (who probably lives thousands of miles away), but I prefer the silence.

A bloke I used to work with (I'll call hime Dave, because that was his name) had a particular 'line to take' with salespeople who rang him at home. He'd let them say their piece, then say 'I'm too busy to talk right now. Give me your home number and I'll call you back'. They'd invariably say they didn't want to be contacted at home, to which he'd reply 'Neither do I. Now fuck off and don't call me again.'

I've done the call blocking on occasions, but it only stops that particular number. It had little effect on the number of unwanted calls I received. I'm guessing the person on the next desk over has a slightly different number to the one I blocked. Honestly, it's like playing Whack-a-Mole, but without the satisfaction of actually smacking the waste of space over the head.

[Joe]

The one we've got blocks the lot; essentially the system asks callers to identify themselves before putting the call through. All we see is a list of numbers that have called us. But we're not dependent on the phone for business, so it doesn't much matter to us if a genuine caller gets blocked by mistake.

[struth]

The one we've got blocks the lot; essentially the system asks callers to identify themselves before putting the call through. All we see is a list of numbers that have called us. But we're not dependent on the phone for business, so it doesn't much matter to us if a genuine caller gets blocked by mistake.

thats the one my brother has. its a pain as ive got to wait too. not sure if you can green light certain numbers or not. he is a technophobe so he wont know

[Joe]

thats the one my brother has. its a pain as ive got to wait too. not sure if you can green light certain numbers or not. he is a technophobe so he wont know

I'm a technophobe too, and I don't know either!

[Vince]

I'm trying the "give me your home number and I'll call you back" next cold call I receive. Beauty

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[Marco]

So all your friends and family have to wait in queue before getting through? Feck that, lol... If I did that, they'd all disown me!

Marco.

[walpurgis]

Are cold callers annoying you? You may like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttrzG5F4R3o

[Joe]

So all your friends and family have to wait in queue before getting through? Feck that, lol... If I did that, they'd all disown me!

Marco.

It's not a 'queue' as such; the system asks them to identify themselves, the call gets put through, and we're prompted to accept or reject the call. I expect there's a way of automatically allowing family's/friends' numbers through without challenge, but I've mislaid the manual and no-one seems to mind identifying themselves.

[Marco]

Mmm... If that works for you, then fine, but I wouldn't want to inconvenience folks like that. I suspect you don't get many calls... As an example, my dad can call me half a dozen times a day, for various things, and it would piss him off big time if he had to continually go through that pish.

And you don't need an instruction manual to sort it, Google for the relevant info, which I'm sure will be out there, and fix it, but you probably can't be arsed!

Marco.

[Minstrel SE]

The one that cheeses me off is these dodgy debt collection companies phoning and messaging the mobile for some ficticious name. Real name or not, its got nothing to do with me and it was a brand new sim card unless they are recycling numbers.

I just send them to call and message blocking as you can block key words. They have a bank of phone numbers and I just block them as they change.

Really the police should be involved with practices like that as I believe they are UK based

Not enough is done to catch and deter scammers. Its a tough one of they are abroad but this sort of criminal behavior should be matched by real punishments. The trouble is I seem to be writing empty words as the scammers dont care and nobody seems bothered about stopping them