anyone on here recieving many withheld calls or calls with 0000000 numbers you know the type no -one at the other end then dial tone ??? we average around 5 per day at the moment and they are driving me mad.
just been onto my provider and they have told me to register with the tps ...I am aready registered ! I have also put a witheld calls ban on my phone but they said they are probaby predictive calls from abroad call centres and there is nothing we can do!

Roni

Be careful putting a witheld call ban on your phone, because your doctor or hospital will always use a witheld number. 

The ones you are receiving are probably from abroad, they are computer generated and if you answer them they will know someone is there at that time of day and then a person will call you in the future.

We have the ability to stop callers calling again, i.e blocking them. We used to get a lot, then we started leaving the phone off the hook after they rang and we answered...that stopped a few!!! Or you can get a number display unit, then you don't have to answer it if it's not a number you recognise.

I get alot of recorded messages and junk calls, i did ask virgin to change the number but they have yet to do it. Pain when i run to answer it and its the personal injury help line stuff. Louise

> then we started leaving the phone off the hook after they rang and we answered...that stopped a few!!!

We do that too :-)  Let 'em pay especially if it is an international call.  We went through a spate of them about 3 months ago but they seem to have stopped again.

Interesting because after a few months of hardly anything I have started receiving loads of calls again, probably 4/5 a day.  I do tend to let calls go to answermachine and screen them before I pick up.  Most people have got used to me doing this so will usually talk to the machine asking if I am there so I can pick up.  I always do 1471 and google the number and they always comes up as spam numbers.

Tonight however, without thinking I picked up the phone, I then heard a loud click and what I can only describe as the noise you get when you are dialling out and you are waiting for the line to ring at the other end. I quickly put the phone down.  Getting quite a few calls to my mobile as well but I have the facility to block certain numbers as they come up!

My uncle (who is retired so has a lot of time on his hands!) plays them at their own game and keeps asking them questions, going round and round in circles and tieing them up in knots just to keep them on the phone. They end up hanging up on him every time he does this!!! :-) And they never phone again!! Probably works in the same way as answering the phone and then just leacing it off the hook.
Strange number though - neverheard of the 000000 numbers.

> plays them at their own game and keeps asking them questions, going round and round in circles and tieing them up in knots just to keep them on the phone.

Only trouble with that plan is, it is usually a machine! :-)

Tonight we've had an 017899999999 number . It was an American machine  so i put the phone down .
Anything that doesn't look right - don't answer it .

> I then heard a loud click and what I can only describe as the noise you get when you are dialling out and you are waiting for the line to ring at the other end. I quickly put the phone down

I have heard of scams that use this sort of approach, I'm not sure how it works but when you hear the dialling out sound and then a connect type tone you can end up (if you stay there too long) getting a bill for an incoming call, there was something on the tell ages back about something along these lines.

When I get the electronic ones at work you know the automated voice thing I put them on hold and leave them there until it automatically hangs up, or if it's some foreign call centre I put on my best BBC voice and say 'the other person is about to hang up' or tell them 'I'm sorry this is switchboard and today is POET's day, Friday is the worst day for cold calls and automated jobbies, our mother board in the phone system blew today and it was yummy no phones all day :) :) :)

Once upon a time you could also have only the last number that called barred from calling again providing you give BT a valid reason.  (i.e. nuisance calling)

we have had lots of the 000000000000 phone calls over the last few weeks, never in to take the calls but when back home done the 1471 & was often that number......

We are non marketing - apparently - but I still get calls so I have caller display and I let the answer machine pick those calls up. If they really want to speak to you they'll leave a message. It is a pain though as my 10 year old always rushes to the phone in case its his friends.  I am forever saying let the machine get it (although I sometimes do that when its my mum eeek!)

thanks spaniel mad ....I am not going crazy then!!

Have you registered with the Telephone Preference Service, since doing so we have very few nuisance calls?

Slightly OT but we've recently changed our telephone supplier and have received an email from the original company advising that there was an invoice outstanding for calls.

So, I went back to query why they were sending an invoice as I thought we were up to date and surely this was a mistake.  They came back and said this was most certainly not a mistake and that our account was outstanding to the tune of

£0.16 including VAT!!!!!

As VAT is included I think we might demand a breakdown of charges!!

Susie
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when I went onto register they told me I already was!!!!

Oops - that's that idea out the window then!

Tonight we've had an 017899999999 number . It was an American machine  so i put the phone down .

I've also had this number call me too!

just had another two 00000000 calls, one after another.... driving me nuts. am gonna see about getting these calls barred...

the problem is (im in sales so i have it all the time) you CAN opt for the tps service BUT if you buy anything and give in your number and i mean ANYTHING, house, insurance, t.v, mag subscription usually in the small print it says they will pass on your details. They make money by doing this and sell it to agencies. So you need to be very careful with everything

We get these sort of calls at work. Not too bad if you are a shop or office maybe, though annoying. We, however get these calls only on out "hot line" which is a dedicated number for the Maternity department to call into the blood Transfusion Lab when things have gone very wrong. Causes an adreneline rush every time the phone rings!!

Lynn