Sudden decline in cold calls

HarryM1BYT · 15th July 2013, 08:51

We have had a sudden decline in cold nuisance phone calls. Apparently due to the sheer number of complaints, the one of the sources has been traced to a tiny office in Swansea who have been taken to task. Calls from the UK and around the rest of the world were coming in, then the callers number changed by this office.

We are down from around 5 a day, to maybe 1 or 2 calls per week.

Nige B · 15th July 2013, 09:00

Pleasing when it happens..they are a complete nuisance , more so when on shift work...And not wanting to appear racist why does "Brian , andrew or maureen from India " not use their real names ??

FLYER · 15th July 2013, 09:00

Do my head in these calls.

My mobile is phoned twice a day by a number starting 020 , I just dont answer it , been 2 weeks now and they are determined to get an answer but it aint gonna happen.

FLYING BANANA · 15th July 2013, 09:10

I signed up to the Nusiance Phone people. All calls have stopped. one an 0800 number was phoning me 6 times a day all the week. This turned out to be AXA insurance

GT Courier · 15th July 2013, 09:17

We hardly ever use our landline these days, we use mobiles and the landline doesn't have the phone plugged except when we want to make a call to an 0845 number...

We got calls on our new landline number (when we changed suppliers) the day it was installed despite it being ex directory etc. No one knew the number not even me, so they are just using auto dialers etc which should be banned,

They are breaking the law, but don't care and very little is done about it.

Afterall, a lot of people only have a landline because you can't get broadband without it, the days of landlines are numbered now anyway.

HarryM1BYT · 15th July 2013, 09:58

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Originally Posted by GT Courier

We hardly ever use our landline these days, we use mobiles and the landline doesn't have the phone plugged except when we want to make a call to an 0845 number...

We got calls on our new landline number (when we changed suppliers) the day it was installed despite it being ex directory etc. No one knew the number not even me, so they are just using auto dialers etc which should be banned,

They are breaking the law, but don't care and very little is done about it.

Afterall, a lot of people only have a landline because you can't get broadband without it, the days of landlines are numbered now anyway.

We use our landline quite a lot along with saynoto8070 to avoid the calls costs. I have a mobile, which now only gets rare use - I just carry it for emergencies and I only recall once having received a cold call on it. SWMBO carries two mobiles (why two I don't know, nor does she), she spends her life on them and she is often troubled by cold calls on them.

'They are breaking the law, but don't care and very little is done about it.'

Well they seem to have had an effect now and about time.

windrush · 15th July 2013, 10:04

I have notice this as well a good thing too

Jay160 · 15th July 2013, 10:51

I have a call firewall app on my phone if your not in my contacts the calls are auto rejected
I did the simple thing on our landline of unplugging it from the wall as it was only the mother in law that used it
But its cheaper some how to keep the landline

SapperGB · 16th July 2013, 03:45

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Originally Posted by FLYER

Do my head in these calls.

My mobile is phoned twice a day by a number starting 020 , I just dont answer it , been 2 weeks now and they are determined to get an answer but it aint gonna happen.

This is the area code for London so it may be genuine. (probably not though).

throw the number into google, it will likely bring up results on who they are and if it has been marked as a nuisance call it should become apparent.

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