Receiving calls from premium rate numbers - can I stop it?

[blueST]

Every day, often more than once, I get a call from a premium rate phone number. It's a different number every time so I can't block them on my phone. They only ring for a few seconds, I assume that is in the hope I will see a missed call and phone back. It's highly annoying. Is there any way I can stop this from happening? I think the trigger for this was advertising my car on PH earlier this year, where my phone number was on public display, lesson learnt there.

[danb79]

blueST said:

Every day, often more than once, I get a call from a premium rate phone number. It's a different number every time so I can't block them on my phone. They only ring for a few seconds, I assume that is in the hope I will see a missed call and phone back. It's highly annoying. Is there any way I can stop this from happening? I think the trigger for this was advertising my car on PH earlier this year, where my phone number was on public display, lesson learnt there.

Just keep blocking them; you cannot stop them calling, but you can stop them once they've called.

Have you registered with TPS too?

[simon_harris]

add you number to the telephone preference service, should help to reduce spam calls

https://www.tpsonline.org.uk/

[blueST]

I have been blocking them, but it's pointless as the same number never calls twice. I'm sure I am registered with TPS as well, but as I think this is a scam to get me to call them they probably don't take any notice of that system.

[Quattr04.]

If you’ve got a iPhone there’s a settling in calls that automaticlly silences and declines calls from numbers you haven’t got saved in your contacts

[WrekinCrew]

Android - https://gitlab.com/bitfireAT/NoPhoneSpam
Landline - Truecall.co.uk

Both allow wildcard blocking eg " 09* "

[Baldchap]

simon_harris said:

add you number to the telephone preference service, should help to reduce spam calls

https://www.tpsonline.org.uk/

Be aware this is used by overseas scammers as a phone book.

Only stops legitimate calls basically.

[ro250]

Quattr04. said:

If you’ve got a iPhone there’s a settling in calls that automaticlly silences and declines calls from numbers you haven’t got saved in your contacts

You'd surely miss important calls if you did that.

[snuffy]

ro250 said:

Quattr04. said:

If you’ve got a iPhone there’s a settling in calls that automaticlly silences and declines calls from numbers you haven’t got saved in your contacts

You'd surely miss important calls if you did that.

Then the caller would surely leave a message ?

[judas]

snuffy said:

ro250 said:

Quattr04. said:

If you’ve got a iPhone there’s a settling in calls that automaticlly silences and declines calls from numbers you haven’t got saved in your contacts

You'd surely miss important calls if you did that.

Then the caller would surely leave a message ?

That's my approach - if they don't leave a message, then it can't have been important enough to bother answering.

[Ham_and_Jam]

blueST said:

Every day, often more than once, I get a call from a premium rate phone number. It's a different number every time so I can't block them on my phone. They only ring for a few seconds, I assume that is in the hope I will see a missed call and phone back. It's highly annoying. Is there any way I can stop this from happening? I think the trigger for this was advertising my car on PH earlier this year, where my phone number was on public display, lesson learnt there.

When you say ‘premium’ number, what is the prefix dialing code?

[blueST]

Always 0843...

[Road2Ruin]

ro250 said:

Quattr04. said:

If you’ve got a iPhone there’s a settling in calls that automaticlly silences and declines calls from numbers you haven’t got saved in your contacts

You'd surely miss important calls if you did that.

On Android you can set it so that if a number calls again, within a few minutes, it will ring. An auto dialler won't do that, probably