Local phone scam

Baron von Lotsov · January 23, 2020, 06:02:25 PM

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Yes, it does reduce the noise level but some of the scum use random diallers and dont care. There was a time such barcstewards would be denied telephone service. Alas, not now

The police allow them to operate. Some guy tracked them down to a London address. All the evidence was handed over to the police and the police sat on their arses whilst the scammers continued. It's the classic 'get out of jail for free' card. You have to be Indian though. In India you have to bribe the police if you want them to do anything.

Thomas · January 23, 2020, 07:04:43 AM

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https://lifehacker.com/how-to-spoof-caller-id-5853056">https://lifehacker.com/how-to-spoof-caller-id-5853056

This relates to the USA and it has been two decades since I had any interest in the technology BUT it was possible THEN to 'spoof' caller I'd and I'm sure unscrupulous buggers could do it today

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johnofgwent · January 22, 2020, 07:08:26 PM

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I presume most people already know about the Telephone Preference Service. It does cut down on spam calls.

https://www.tpsonline.org.uk//tps/index.html">//https://www.tpsonline.org.uk//tps/index.html

It's well worth doing.

Yes, it does reduce the noise level but some of the scum use random diallers and dont care. There was a time such barcstewards would be denied telephone service. Alas, not now

Baron von Lotsov · January 22, 2020, 06:12:08 PM

~~Quote from: Barry post_id=13934 time=1579647032 user_id=51~~
I presume most people already know about the Telephone Preference Service. It does cut down on spam calls.

https://www.tpsonline.org.uk//tps/index.html">//https://www.tpsonline.org.uk//tps/index.html

It's well worth doing.

Yes but I has been on that for years and it never made any difference. Foreign criminals are hardly going to take any notice of that. These were the ones who made up my calls. I only really got one British firm breaking the law, and that was my electricity supplier. No matter what i told them on the phone, they would just keep ringing me about their scam offers of protection insurance and other shit you did not ask for. I got rid of that firm eventually by leaving it.

cromwell · January 22, 2020, 06:09:02 PM

I'm always getting the womans voice recording telling me I have had an accident I have complained but they just constantly switch phone numbers.

And this morning got an email telling me my paypal account had been hacked and so was now locked and I couldn't log on the paypal website but needed to change the password by clicking the link.......yeah right course I will.

Sadly I know someone who was taken in and lost afour figure sum,when she complained she was told tough you shouldn't click links and give your info away.

Bright Young Thing · January 22, 2020, 05:19:54 PM

Also, for anyone who has a BT line, you can ask to activate the 1572 service. After an unwanted call you dial 1572 and the last number is automatically barred from calling you again. Won't work all the time as scammers are notorious for using lots of different numbers, but it's cut calls that my parents were receiving down massively.

Barry · January 21, 2020, 10:50:32 PM

I presume most people already know about the Telephone Preference Service. It does cut down on spam calls.

https://www.tpsonline.org.uk//tps/index.html">//https://www.tpsonline.org.uk//tps/index.html

It's well worth doing.

Baron von Lotsov · January 21, 2020, 10:36:47 PM

It's very odd, but I used to get tons of these cretins. At times I'd even confused genuine calls as scam calls, like a courier call who sounded so practiced in his spiel that I figured it was the same that had been bugging me earlier.

I used to tell them to f-off, but then I got bored of that, so I would play them along for a bit and gradually screw their minds up so they were freaking out. I used to phone the regulator and haggle with them, but none of this seemed to get rid of the bleeders. However now I have not had a scam call for probably over a year. I forget the last one, it was so long ago. There's no apparent reason. I still have the same number and all of that.

Perhaps they have a kind of master blacklist of numbers and someone put me on it from one of the scammers.

johnofgwent · January 21, 2020, 10:21:55 PM

https://lifehacker.com/how-to-spoof-caller-id-5853056">https://lifehacker.com/how-to-spoof-caller-id-5853056

This relates to the USA and it has been two decades since I had any interest in the technology BUT it was possible THEN to 'spoof' caller I'd and I'm sure unscrupulous buggers could do it today

T00ts · January 21, 2020, 09:15:58 PM

We are all used to phone scams hopefully and I have all expected numbers logged into the phone memory and usually I ignore any others I don't recognise. My logic tells me that if they know me they will leave a message.Today I had a call which showed my local area code and the first two digits denoting my actual village. I picked it up.

I was greeted by a foreign voice warning me about some account or other and I politely declined to engage in the conversation.

It was very unusual to see such a specific number. Beware. I assume it was random but as it was on my landline perhaps it was a plan.