Another cold calling technique...

[rico]

Just had a phonecall... its a fake BT voicemail message that clicks in then a bloke says "oh hello... this is james from blah blah travel...."

I've signed up for that register to stop this sort of rubbish...

[Plotloss]

TPS will do you no good if the calls originate outside the UK...

[rico]

Yeah... i think it is foreign... ggrrr

It was definitely a fake... as i pressed '3' to delete and it just cut the message out... no "message deleted" from BT.

[NickD]

I signed up to TPS a while ago and everything was fine but now I've started to get an alarming number of recorded calls originating from outside the UK. Damn annoying.

[Plotloss]

NickD said:

I signed up to TPS a while ago and everything was fine but now I've started to get an alarming number of recorded calls originating from outside the UK. Damn annoying.

The cynic in me suggests that that is someone reverse engineering the telephone book against the TPS register and selling it on...

[shadowninja]

No, it's simply that they're buying lists and not running it past the TPS filter cos they don't need to worry about it. Need to find out who sold it to them I think... it will likely be a UK company.

[pdr479]

Had this message on my mobile yesterday number came up as 89797 Not sure who you are, but topped up my old phone and your number is on it. Who is this??
When i go to look for the senders details it eventualy shows up after going two thirds of the way down the screen std chgs to send,£1.50 to rcv.
Cheeky bastar*s wot a con, assume that to mean if i had returned the message it would have cost me £1.50 premium rate.
Being billy no mates i texted back straight away


>> Edited by pdr479 on Wednesday 26th January 16:55

[alexkp]

All this communications technology is simply giving more unscrupulous villains new opportunities to rip people off.

The technology providers, particularly the Phone companies do not take this nearly seriously enough. For a start they need to block all calls/texts that require you to respond to a number that charges exorbitant amounts.

They really need to sharpen up their acts.

As for email - well the ISP's have got to get this sorted and deny service to spamming sites. The UN or Interpol probably need to establish a cross boarders task force who have special powers in all territories.

Nigeria needs to be first on the list.

[Zod]

We are getting these pre-recorded travel-related calls as well, from the US and Australia. Signign up for TPS stopped most of this crap, but this is clearly the latest innovation.

[v8thunder]

We had a Yank one today.

The ones that really annoy me are the pre-recorded 'prize line' ones - you don't even get the satisfaction of slamming the phone down on a real person!

[rico]

v8thunder said:

The ones that really annoy me are the pre-recorded 'prize line' ones - you don't even get the satisfaction of slamming the phone down on a real person!

Tell me about it!

I've only got the phone for the internet line... i'm hardly in the flat so everyone just calls my mobile anyway...

I'm tempted to unplug the phone and just use it when i want to make a call...