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My number seems to have been added to a call list and I’m getting loads of random calls to my mobile from companies I’ve never heard of trying to sell me stuff I don’t want. Most annoying.
But it got me thinking. What do you do? Do you string them along to waste their time, politely decline, hang up or something else…. |
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EE keep calling me about a discount on my contract.
The last one hung up after asking how I was, Sir, and me saying I'm sick.
The one before that got called a scamming cunt and told to fuck off. I wouldn't usually but I was feeling really ill.
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"If you contact your network provider, they can activate a service that detects unsolicited calls as either suspected spam or potential fraud, and it automatically cuts the call off."
I’m going to look at that, thanks! |
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"My number seems to have been added to a call list and I’m getting loads of random calls to my mobile from companies I’ve never heard of trying to sell me stuff I don’t want. Most annoying.
But it got me thinking. What do you do? Do you string them along to waste their time, politely decline, hang up or something else…."
My brother always strings them along, the way he looks at it, is if they’re wasting their time with him they’re not bothering anyone else or bothering less people anyway |
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By *arkRichMan 7 weeks ago
Manchester City Centre |
As much as it’s fun to take the piss, these companies take advantage of the British Politeness - just answer the call, and if it’s a sales call, hang up immediately and block the number - in the long run, it’s much better for your mental health
2ndly… there’s a few companies that you can pay a small fee to, that can opt you out of all of the data brokers systems, as you seem to have had your data sold on by a company that you’ve probably signed up to legitimately - this can save a lot of time - I have switched numbers recently for this reason, as I’ve had my number since I was 21 and it was becoming impossible to avoid these calls  |
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I had to really drum into my mum that it was ok to put the phone down on these people. She would spend ages making elaborate excuses to them and was scammed twice. We also have to regularly impress upon my dad that even if they say they're your bank, they really aren't.
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By (user no longer on site) 7 weeks ago
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"I say "just hold on a second"..
and then I play the trumpet for them, right next to the phone.
Very loudly.
-and incredibly badly.
That is brilliant!! "
I've got a didgeridoo too.
In theory you can make that sound go forever if you master the ' circular breathing' technique.
This thread might just have given me the motivation to become an expert on it  |
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By *bi HaiveMan 7 weeks ago
Forum Mod Cheeseville, Somerset |
Put the phone under a saucepan and then hit it repeatedly with a spoon.
Or I just ask them to wait 2 seconds whilst I put something down. Then put the phone down and go and do something else instead. They all seem to hang up eventually. |
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"My number seems to have been added to a call list and I’m getting loads of random calls to my mobile from companies I’ve never heard of trying to sell me stuff I don’t want. Most annoying.
But it got me thinking. What do you do? Do you string them along to waste their time, politely decline, hang up or something else…."
Tell them you’ve got Tourette’s then crack on |
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Ensure on the Telephone Preference Service.
I'm often silent when answering unknown numbers or don't do it.
I report UK companies that are breaking rules.
I also use Google call answering sometimes, where a bot answers for me, asking the reason for calling and gives a recording and transcript. Spam callers never speak to it |
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By (user no longer on site) 7 weeks ago
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As other people have said - TPS can limit them.
I have set up my phone to only get notifications from the people and apps I want to hear from, so don't really get bothered by any of the crap anymore. |
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"My number seems to have been added to a call list and I’m getting loads of random calls to my mobile from companies I’ve never heard of trying to sell me stuff I don’t want. Most annoying.
But it got me thinking. What do you do? Do you string them along to waste their time, politely decline, hang up or something else…."
If it’s an automated message, you just stay quiet the whole way through. If they hang up, you’re struck off their list. There is sometimes an option of press 9 to opt out. You just have to be patient, as with most things in life… |
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My phone stops most of them thankfully but those that do make it through i string along if i'm not busy.
Cant post links but if you search "AI Scambaiters: O2 creates AI Granny to waste scammers’ time" on a certain tube site 🤔 its brilliant ! |
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My god... This reminds me, I returning the voicemail of a patient of mine I was trying to get booked in to see me, like... 5 minutes after she'd left it, and her hubby answered the phone.
I asked to speak with her, and he just started screaming down the phone "she's dead! She's dead!!"
I was like wtf!!? And he hung up before I could say anything else! After freaking out for a sec, I called him back, assuming she was literally on the floor right there given she'd *just* left me a message, to ask if she was definitely dead, if he'd called 999, if he had people there with him etc, and managed to say who I was this time, and he was "Ohhh it's you! I just say that to scare of scam caller's"
My god. I didn't know whether to laugh, cry, or shout at him. Man about gave me a heart attack. She was a very beloved patient 🤣🤣 |
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By *ucka39Man 7 weeks ago
Newcastle |
If you go into phone settings scroll down to Google click it then scroll down to privacy and turn off usage and diagnostic and phone number verification, as if you read what's written you'll understand that Google has been using your details for third parties and you can turn this off |
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"When the kids were toddlers and were at that babble stage I used to give them the phone "
I used to do this too!! Even funnier when they were just old enough to holda conversation together, but not old enough to be coherent 😆 |
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By *ripfillMan 7 weeks ago
Paris, New York, Hong Kong and Havant |
Interesting OP
I give them a false post code PO30 5RS if asked for it
Which is Parkhust Jail oddly !
If I pick up the phone (rarely) - i speak guttural French
With a few comments about their mother !
Just for a bit of fun |
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By (user no longer on site) 7 weeks ago
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I've not had any in yrs got so fed up with them starting about 6 finishing late night so the last lady got it I can't say what I did but I've never had any since |
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Pixel phones have call screening, where you can get AI to answer the call and interrogate them. . Anyone else use it?
I don't know if it's been released more widely by Google yet but not heard of it |
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By (user no longer on site) 6 weeks ago
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If you wanna do some damage, put your phone under a cooking pot and hammer at the pot with a metal spatula or something similar. If they want their eardrums bursting even more they can ring back |
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I'd been plagued by car insurance cold callers. This is how probably the last conversation went....
"That's amazing how did you know?"
"Know what?"
"I've just been involved in a very nasty car accident and your calling me about car insurance." "Spooky"
"Is anyone hurt?"
"Yes." "I think someone has been decapitated."
Line went silent....Then. "I'm just going to call my supervisor."
At which point, I lost my nerve and hung up.  |
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I used to be in a dozen pubs a day for work and different landlords had unique approaches to cold callers.
One place used to pass the phone around the customers and they would keep them talking for ages while confusing them completely.
Another used to excuse himself to serve a customer, put the phone beside the TV with the racing channel on and then tell the caller they had lost all their money on the race and were too poor to sign up to anything. |
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Register with the telephone preference service. They'll stop.
Download true caller to your mobile.
Or answer the call and leave the phone on the side. Let them talk to themselves.
Hope this helps. Xx |
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"I just don’t answer the phone. Then I Google search their number 🕵️"
This  never answer the phone from a number I don't have saved unless I am expecting a call. My phone also has a caller ID feature so it tells me if the number has been reported as spam online while it's ringing, so I immediately block the number. |
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By *rAitchMan 6 weeks ago
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I had a cold caller once asking me about a car accident. I said the car was rammed from behind and totalled. They got excited, eyeing up a whiplash claim, no doubt. I was asked if there were any injuries. I said there wasn't, as the car was parked on the road and I was watching telly at the time.
Disclaimer, it never happened, and as my driveway is 350 yards long and I reverse park to a wall, they'd have to be an exceptionally bad driver, and lost, to get near my car  |
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I had a call from Nigel, based in India, asking me about loans. I told him I was having a lot of problems with a bare patch in my lawn, and asked what he used to solve it? I asked if I should just did it up and re seed it brrrrrrr, he put the fucking phone down on me.
I did sort the patch up if you're more interested than he was.
I also used to get lots of calls from East Yorkshire glazing, trying to sell me new windows. The ones I had were less than a year old, so he started on suffers n facial, also done, then conservatory, ffs would not stop.
I had a conservatory, but invited them to come do a survey for everything.
Three times I arranged for them to drive 16 miles from their office, only to find me at work.
Eventually, they must have noticed that the windows etc were new. |
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If it is home improvements, I go for a conservatory, the full works. Then when it comes to the addtmress, flat 34, the lines goes dead or I get the person swearing.
Or I just say something like Joe's taxidermy, you snuffit, we stuff it.
Joe's crematorium, you kill them we grill them. |
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