Someone phones you on landline and asks your name.

[King Herald]

As above, a English woman phoned me at home and the first thing she did was ask my name. She spoke proper English, but I immediately thought there was something unfurling and once she knew my name and number I was on a 'list' . I asked her who she was, and she said something about carehome or similar, and to do with kids. She asked my name again, I just gave her my first name, told here there are no kids in the house.

Ten minutes later, same woman again, asks me if some female, forget the name, was available. I told her she'd called ten minutes earlier and she had the wrong number. Then she got a bit stroppy "oh, well, I'm very sorry then" and at that point I put the phone down.

SO, is it considered normal to give your name if a caller asks right off the bat? What is the correct etiquette?

This is the first land line I've had for years, been installed just three weeks, only had one call so far, and that was my dad.

[Robbo 27]

Havent had that experience myself, suspect it might have been a one off, or someone doing a 1471.

I thing you did everything right, I might even have been a bit stroppy back, when she asked your name I would have said why do you want to know, or something.

[C0ffin D0dger]

You did the right thing. Some many scams and chancers around now days, if you don't know the caller then give a little detail as possible (i.e. none) until you've ascertained they're legit. The person calling you should understand that.

[Abbott]

Dont tell them Pike

[Butter Face]

I did see something in another thread where people were supposedly being recorded saying their name and 'yes' 'no' answers to then be used for nefarious means!

[0000]

King Herald said:

SO, is it considered normal to give your name if a caller asks right off the bat? What is the correct etiquette?

No. Hang up.

[paul789]

A simple "fk off" is the mark of a respectable household, nowadays.

[leigh1050]

I've started to answer any calls like these in my very limited spanight. "Hole Juan Carlos,que,no hablo Ingleton, que ester" has them hanging up pretty quickly.

[Pixel Pusher]

King Herald said:

Ten minutes later, same woman again, asks me if some female, forget the name, was available. I told her she'd called ten minutes earlier and she had the wrong number. Then she got a bit stroppy "oh, well, I'm very sorry then" and at that point I put the phone down.

Just start panting and ask her to keep talking as you're "nearly there"..

[Big Rod]

I never tell anyone my name, (or anything for that matter), or even confirm it if they ask for me by name.

I just ask 'Who's calling?'

[ApOrbital]

Pixel Pusher said:

Just start panting and ask her to keep talking as you're "nearly there"..

[Jimmy Recard]

Big Rod said:

I never tell anyone my name, (or anything for that matter), or even confirm it if they ask for me by name.

I just ask 'Who's calling?'

Same. I've had
"But sir, I'm only asking your name, not intimate details."
"Then it's of no importance to you anyway."

And so on until they hang up

[Big Rod]

Jimmy Recard said:

Same. I've had
"But sir, I'm only asking your name, not intimate details."
"Then it's of no importance to you anyway."

And so on until they hang up

I must remember the bit in bold.

[King Herald]

Sounds like I 'passed muster' then.

I've heard of so many scams and games on-line that just getting a phone call is a little worrying. Nobody really has our number, apart from my dad, my daughter, her school school, and the Standard Chartered Bank in Singapore.

[steveo3002]

strung one along day claiming my name was bob ar$eholes

[Type R Tom]

I always ask who is calling before I confirm who I am even if they say my name. Gives me a chance to say "he's unavailable" if I don't like their reply.

[Six Fiend]

Butter Face said:

I did see something in another thread where people were supposedly being recorded saying their name and 'yes' 'no' answers to then be used for nefarious means!

That's a hoax.

[Ari]

Six Fiend said:

Butter Face said:

I did see something in another thread where people were supposedly being recorded saying their name and 'yes' 'no' answers to then be used for nefarious means!

That's a hoax.

Absolutely. It's astonishing that police are prepared to give these hoaxes credence without checking or even applying a little common sense (in the case of the one above, how does saying 'yes' allow the scammers to access anything? It's not like there's a database of people saying 'yes' that they can tap into once they have your 'voiceprint').

It's like that 'secret chalk marks' thing that burglars supposedly leave to let other burglars know if there's a dog or an alarm or whatever - I've even heard of police forces trotting this load of old guff out.

[13m]

paul789 said:

A simple "fk off" is the mark of a respectable household, nowadays.

I was about to deploy that response a few weeks ago, due to 90% of calls on our landline being spam. Just as I was puckering my lips to form an "F" I twigged that the caller really was the headmaster of my child's school and boss to my wife, who was phoning to compliment us on our child's prize for English.

[Type R Tom]

Ari said:

Six Fiend said:

Butter Face said:

I did see something in another thread where people were supposedly being recorded saying their name and 'yes' 'no' answers to then be used for nefarious means!

That's a hoax.

Absolutely. It's astonishing that police are prepared to give these hoaxes credence without checking or even applying a little common sense (in the case of the one above, how does saying 'yes' allow the scammers to access anything? It's not like there's a database of people saying 'yes' that they can tap into once they have your 'voiceprint').

It's like that 'secret chalk marks' thing that burglars supposedly leave to let other burglars know if there's a dog or an alarm or whatever - I've even heard of police forces trotting this load of old guff out.

People do get caught up somehow, a mate of mine who is a financial adviser (so should be quite smart) posted up on FB the one about typing your PIN backwards to alert the Police. Until I pointed out what happens if your PIN is 1221