They do this to everyone, it's not good enough to just want to be left alone anymore!

Michael W

I get these jokers all the time, as well as the crooks pretending to be representatives of Microsoft and wanting to "talk to me about my computer." My stock reply is "f….. off!", in the hope they leave a note on their database "do not phone this man, he is incredibly rude." The tactic doesn't seem to work……

I've had a call from 'from' TalkTalk claiming that there were line problems and he needed to take over my PC to check. I got suspicious and hung up but he 'phoned again within minutes to ask why I'd hung up. I hung up again and called TalkTalk who confirmed it was a scam and blocked the caller for me.

Brian

I had one phone call that was very convincing, for a while, from a bunch claiming to be the 'Telephone Preference Service'. They claimed to be doing a service satisfaction audit on how effective the TPS was. When they asked for bank details is when the penny dropped & so did the handset.

Regards,

Richard.

My elderley dad had a call from an indian person claiming that he had a problem with his windows. My dad replied that his windows looked just fine and had only recently been replaced there was a pause followed by a click as the caller hung up

Mick

I hang up at this point, based on repeated past experience.

Telling the caller that, what ever they want is the responsibility of the ' landlord' works very well in my experience

At my work I receive these calls, sometimes more often than daily either a vindoos problem or to do with my electricity contract. I've now started saying that the business has closed and that they have come through to the security ofice and that the business has folded owing thousands and would they like to leave me their number so the police can get in touch with them , CLick. Sometimes I tell them that ( my name ) is no longer working for the company and they need to speak to Mr Pramshed, and they dutifully write it down, basically wind them up as long as possible . If you let them they will take you for every penny. Action fraud reports losses of £691,000 in 2015 .

Yeah it is interesting, I'm sure they flout the law by edging on the side of technical legality, i'm sure if there was a place doing that much business but in drugs rather than scams they would get piled on like a ton of concrete from the police.

Michael W

I've found the best way to stop these call's and all other unwanted calls is to fit a phone with call guardian, most calls use auto diallers and your picked at random. All my wife and I get now is calls we want from friends and family.

Martin P

"Withheld" or "Unavailable" numbers tend not to be answered, (sadly some friends have their numbers withheld).

If we do find a scammer on the line (often using a 0203 or 0204 number to look believable) "Mr Levis" is in the garden and the caller is asked to hold while he is fetched. This often takes so long that the caller has hung up by the time that he "arrives". But their bill has been increased, and someone else has not been pestered.

There is a an oriental lady with a melodious voice who offered to reclaim bank charges from Barclays. When told that I was not a customer, she suggested, querulously "Natwest?" Not sure that she liked being told that she was a scammer., trying phishing.

Sometime I must try my limited German on one of these callers. Serbo Croat might be understood by some of the callers. Swahili, or Navaho could be a good mode of communication? MUST go on a language course!

Howard