Anyone else getting loads of cold calling phone calls?

We're already registered with the telephone preference service but over the past week we've had at least 3 calls a day from cold callers most with withheld numbers but also some obscure numbers with just 5 or 6 numbers or what seems like hundreds of numbers.
They are either silent when picked up, then after a few seconds click into an automatic message or have someone with an indian or similar accent which is too difficult to understand.

Getting fed up with it now.

The last one wanted to send me £3000 cash for overpaid bank fees.

 

Yeah i get a few each day

I just pass the phone to the nipper and let her talk to them

 

l love them. l always try and ask them about their day and how it's going. Then when they try and reverse it l then ask what they do of an evening or how did they X Y Z etc etc. Also helps to sound like your absolutely off your rocker.

 

Always have had quite a few of these types of call. The ones with the numbers, I just don't answer. The rest, I just hang up. Does get on ya nerves though!!

 

We have started getting them after 9pm so out of order there a load of barstuards lol

 

i had one just now and in my best whelsh accencent , asked if they were going to long as i had sheep to see to and if it was about the worming for the sheep could they come now, and could you hang on while i go and get my hearing aid

 

It could be my new sales girl she only started yesterday ;D Im pretty sure she is just bothering VW businesses though.

 

I keep getting the one about my computer having a problem. Aimed at getting you to let them access your computer.

Some people fall for it apparently

 

Caller display, if you dont recognise the number or it has an unusual prefix...........don't pick up.

 

i don't even have the land line plugged in, it comes as part of my tv/internet package but if i make calls it's either at work or on the mobile, the only time i get the landline out of the cupboard is if i'm at home and need to ring a freephone number.Everyone i know texts or rings my mobile and all of the banks or utility companies either e-mail me or i have given them my old mobile number.

 

Recently there was a a big scam going on - folk calling to say they were from Microsoft saying their systems were showing something was wrong with our computers and asking for a few minutes to fix it over the phone. This involved going deep into the computer, which would obvioulsy reveal personal and bank information. I read somewhere that 25% of folk fell for the trick and lost money as a result. The scammers really were well trained.

I had dozens of calls. Everytime they called I would either tell them to go away, or play along. When playing along, they would usually go on to ask 'haven't you noticed your computer running slow'. To this I would say things like 'yes, it's ever since I downloaded some hard core gay porn, involving two blokes doing this that and the other to each other'. Often, they would put the phone down immediately. But you'd be surprised how many still stayed on the line, so I'd string them along for a bit longer (for my own entertainment) until I got bored.

 

Have you got a link to the site.................? lol.

 

i answer the phone hear what they have to say then sound really interested then ask to hold and go back to watchin tv longest got 1 to stay on hold is 15mins

 

Our home phone is registered in our company name & we get the gentlemen from the subcontinent (invariably) phoning & asking to speak to "The owner or manager"
I always use Monty Python at them & they just don't know what to say & usually just hang up.
We're an anarcho-syndicalist commune. We take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week.
But all the decision of that officer have to be ratified at a special biweekly meeting. By a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs,but by a two-thirds majority in the case of more--
Only once have I struck a caller who knew it but he thought it was the best call he'd had all day & apologised for disturbing me.

 

since moving house we've had none ...

 

I just wonder how many hits they get a day, helluva job, would drive me mad (or even madder zzt)

I usually explain I never do business this way and it'd be doin all your mates a favour if you flagged my phone as unviable...

Or I play 'how long can I keep them on the line if really bored (15mins is pretty good!)

Cheers
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