Bloody offshore scumbag cold callers!!!!!!
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I'm getting seriously f
ked off with offshore cold callers. I work from home a lot, and have had these persistent scumbags calling me about 5 times a day. The number is 0203154841.
They are clearly fraudulent scumbags, it's always the same number but on one call it's allegedly Nationwide, then it's BT, then it's Consumer UK. Obviously being offshore, TPS won't work, and telling them not to call back as I will not speak to them is pointless. As is calling them scumbag pieces of fking st who should just fk off, and when they've finished fking off they should fking well fk off over there instead before fking off a bit more for good fking measure and NEVER EVER fkING CALL ME EVER fkING AGAIN YOU fkING fk!
As someone with a career in sales I suppose I've nothing against the odd honest cold caller who doesn't lie about their name or why they are calling, and who removes me from lists if I ask. But with these aholes I really, really want to hear in the news that their fraudulent fking call centre has been accidentally hit by slightly off course ship full of Aliens, hopefully followed by some really angry, hungry Predators too!
Virgin Media who I am with do not have any kind of call barring feature...who does these days? Looks like Sky has a "ban the last number who called" PIN enabled feature...does it actually work?
ked off with offshore cold callers. I work from home a lot, and have had these persistent scumbags calling me about 5 times a day. The number is 0203154841.They are clearly fraudulent scumbags, it's always the same number but on one call it's allegedly Nationwide, then it's BT, then it's Consumer UK. Obviously being offshore, TPS won't work, and telling them not to call back as I will not speak to them is pointless. As is calling them scumbag pieces of f
king st who should just fk off, and when they've finished fking off they should fking well fk off over there instead before fking off a bit more for good fking measure and NEVER EVER fkING CALL ME EVER fkING AGAIN YOU fkING fk!As someone with a career in sales I suppose I've nothing against the odd honest cold caller who doesn't lie about their name or why they are calling, and who removes me from lists if I ask. But with these a
holes I really, really want to hear in the news that their fraudulent fking call centre has been accidentally hit by slightly off course ship full of Aliens, hopefully followed by some really angry, hungry Predators too!Virgin Media who I am with do not have any kind of call barring feature...who does these days? Looks like Sky has a "ban the last number who called" PIN enabled feature...does it actually work?
At home you can just ignore calls from numbers you don't recognise. What is more annoying and really pisses me off is when they call your mobile and then leave a fking message which costs you money to recover and delete. I get about 10 of these fking calls every day, really boils my piss.
king message which costs you money to recover and delete. I get about 10 of these fking calls every day, really boils my piss.Monkeylegend said:
Waste their time, tell them you need to do a security check and ask for their name, post code and their mothers maiden name, or put them on hold or just don't say anything to them, or ask them to repeat everything they say, or something...
They will soon get fed up calling you.
Quite like the idea of this, filed for future reference They will soon get fed up calling you.
I get cold called in fits and starts from UK looking numbers which are obviously a looooong way abroad when you answer
It feels like their random number generator pulls up my phone several times over a couple of weeks then nothing for a year or so
Much as I would like to shoot Mr Big in the face I appreciate that the caller is probably an exploited drone earning a few dollars getting abuse from most folk they cold call
When the kids were little Id give the phone to them as they liked talking!
These days I politely hang up however did get one a few weeks ago after a really, really bad day and unleashed a tired of the strongest Anglo Saxon imaginable after which the caller carried on with the script asking me some platitude before getting on to the mis selling PPI or whatever the scam was on that particular day - I had to admire his professionalism
Cheers
Hard-Drive said:
Virgin Media who I am with do not have any kind of call barring feature...who does these days? Looks like Sky has a "ban the last number who called" PIN enabled feature...does it actually work?
We're with Virgin Media and you can bar calls that come from withheld numbers which seem to reduce the number of cold callers we get, still get the 'Windows' calls and string them out for a laugh!Simple solution.
Take a recording of this, when they call you, just play it down the phone.
https://youtu.be/jZOywn1qArI
Take a recording of this, when they call you, just play it down the phone.
https://youtu.be/jZOywn1qArI
I've got these as the house phones, they work an absolute treat.
http://www.johnlewis.com/bt-8500-digital-telephone...
If you have caller ID then I'm guessing they should work with Virgin? (I'm with BT).
On the mobile, I have an iPhone now and just add numbers like this to my contacts and then block that contact. Job done.
http://www.johnlewis.com/bt-8500-digital-telephone...
If you have caller ID then I'm guessing they should work with Virgin? (I'm with BT).
On the mobile, I have an iPhone now and just add numbers like this to my contacts and then block that contact. Job done.
Cold callers drive me round the bend. Many of them don't hide their numbers any more because so many people ignore withheld numbers, so I have a habit of adding the persistent offenders to my phone's directory so that I don't inadvertently answer them. Luckily I don't receive as much work over the phone as I used to (it's all email these days), and I have two phone numbers - so clients tend to try one, and if I don't answer they try the other. Or else they email, which is preferable.
But the fact remains that when cold callers phone, nine times out of ten I have to stop what I was doing to answer it - and even if I don't answer, I have to look at the phone to make sure it's nothing important and that derails my train of thought, which can be a right pain in the neck when I've been cogitating on a translation for a while and I've almost got it worked out.
Incidentally, on Android mobiles (don't know about others) there's an app called Truecaller which is great. It checks the numbers of all callers against a database and lets you know who they are, if they have a record. It also blocks calls from known cold callers, and if a caller isn't logged as spam you can block it yourself. It's well worth downloading it.
But the fact remains that when cold callers phone, nine times out of ten I have to stop what I was doing to answer it - and even if I don't answer, I have to look at the phone to make sure it's nothing important and that derails my train of thought, which can be a right pain in the neck when I've been cogitating on a translation for a while and I've almost got it worked out.
Incidentally, on Android mobiles (don't know about others) there's an app called Truecaller which is great. It checks the numbers of all callers against a database and lets you know who they are, if they have a record. It also blocks calls from known cold callers, and if a caller isn't logged as spam you can block it yourself. It's well worth downloading it.
At home get the call blocking box that sit sin the middle of your phone and line, about £25 i tihnk from amazon.
If you are on android mobile get an app called truecaller. free automatically block calls barked by users as spam and let you decide for any calls you get if you want to mark as spam and just hands up the call before it even rings.
If you are on android mobile get an app called truecaller. free automatically block calls barked by users as spam and let you decide for any calls you get if you want to mark as spam and just hands up the call before it even rings.
stevensdrs said:
At home you can just ignore calls from numbers you don't recognise. ...
Indeed. I don't bother answering any landline calls when I am Working From Home as is it not going to be anyone I want to talk to.Also, any call that doesn't start talking immediately (ie. an auto dialler connecting you to someone in the call centre) get hung up straight away, haven't yet had a real person ring me back saying they were cut off.
I had one the other day at work.
Overseas Gent "Good morning sir, we believe somebody who uses this phone has had an accident in the last 2 years"
Me "this is a switchboard with 3000 people using it, which one would you like me to put you through to?" Total lie as it's only me.
Overseas Gent " erm..........Mr Smith"
Me " Oh come on you're not even really trying"
OG " Mrs.............Brown"
Me "Nope try again"
OG hung up.
I was a bit bored.
Overseas Gent "Good morning sir, we believe somebody who uses this phone has had an accident in the last 2 years"
Me "this is a switchboard with 3000 people using it, which one would you like me to put you through to?" Total lie as it's only me.
Overseas Gent " erm..........Mr Smith"
Me " Oh come on you're not even really trying"
OG " Mrs.............Brown"
Me "Nope try again"
OG hung up.
I was a bit bored.
stevensdrs said:
What is more annoying and really pisses me off is when they call your mobile and then leave a fking message which costs you money to recover and delete. I get about 10 of these fking calls every day, really boils my piss.
I don't answer calls from numbers I don't recognise, full stop, nor do I retrieve voicemails from them on my mobile. If it's something desperately important from someone I care about they'll try texting or emailing if they can't get me on the phone.king message which costs you money to recover and delete. I get about 10 of these fking calls every day, really boils my piss.Truckosaurus said:
Also, any call that doesn't start talking immediately (ie. an auto dialler connecting you to someone in the call centre) get hung up straight away, haven't yet had a real person ring me back saying they were cut off.
I hate them, wait a few seconds then a person comes on the line. Don't say anything, see how they like it.Gassing Station | The Lounge | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff