Nuisance caller attempts increasing again

[F]

You missed out 'not' as in 'can not'.

[Harry Bloomfield]

Jac Brown formulated the question :

Unlikely, all the emergency people, doctors etc. are well used to dealing with these systems. All they need do is listen to the announcement the system makes and follow the simple instruction.

The nuisance callers tend to use computers dialling numbers, which do not follow the instruction - hence they are blocked.

[charles]

not in writing, but my ISP owner told me, And I tend to believe him.

[Bob Eager]

I would get a new ISP if I were you. It is patently not true.

[Brian Gaff]

I've noticed a gradual rise to mobile numbers as well over say, the last month or so. some are not spoofed but genuine chancers trying to sell stuff, usually some financial service or crap junk from China.

At least some do have an opt out number to hit, and having checked this against charges, it seems to be legitimate and worked. On the landline its been pretty constant over time. I can tell from the call recorders whisper files. These get recorded when the device asks you to specify a name, and the pre recorded ones often stay connected long enough to register a short recording. Most of the others hang up and every so often I just add the numbers, real or otherwise to my local zap list

It must be a thankless task for a human which I imagine is why so many are now pre recorded. Brian

[dennis]

Maybe they run a cr@p VoIP system that can?

[charles]

The system is provided by Kingston Communications - in any case what has that got to do with phones - that service comes from BT

[Bob Eager]

Are you *really* asking what VoIP has to do with phones???

[charles]

MY phone service is not VOIP.

[dennis]

not in kingston it doesn't. Its the only bit of the UK where BT doesn't run the phone service.

[Scott]

I just wind them up if I can. They were looking for somebody, not me. I said I thought he was serving three years and suggested they try the Scottish Prison Service.

[dennis]

given that the 21cn network has provision for doing POTs via VoIP you can't be sure of that.

We designed cards for the DSLAMs that could supply xDSL and POTs using VoIP for the POTs and they were controlled by a soft switch based on SystemX.

They were to be installed in the cabinets in the streets so BT could sell the exchange buildings.

[charles]

I'm not in Kingston (upon Hull)

[Harry Bloomfield]

Harry Bloomfield formulated on Wednesday :

..and none of the calls at all, since the 19th. There were 10 calls blocked, all from spoofed numbers and 8 of them presented different numbers. The sudden rise and fall in the number, suggests to me that all must have come from the same source and they were very keen to try to get through :-)

[Steve Walker]

Those opt-outs should be changed to opt-ins - it's very hard to opt-out when you've picked up the landline on an only slightly updated, 80 year old, rotary dial phone!

SteveW

[Mark]

With mine they could leave a message, explaining who they are and I can decide whether to answer the call or not.

[Mark]

IIRC the law says that it must be "opt-in" not "opt-out".

[dennis]

UK law doesn't apply to other countries so they can still phone you.

[Scott]

Except they are not really opt-outs at all. They are a method of checking the number is valid thus increasing its value when sold on.

[Mark]

UK law should apply to companies that do business in the UK.