Just had a call meant to be from BT saying my my line will be cut off unless, etc.
The usual pre-recorded message. A basic far east accent - but american influenced.
Very good of them to make it so easy to identify as spam. ;-)
I suggest you do what I do and block all cold calls.
I do normally - but it also blocks calls from things like a hospital switchboard.
And I've had two of the same today from two different 002 numbers. Both blocked now.
That's the problem. There are calls from numbers that might not have been seen before but which are genuine and important.
On 10:48 9 Jan 2019, "Dave Plowman (News)" snipped-for-privacy@davenoise.co.uk> wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@davenoise.co.uk:
You can often detect phone scammers by the noisy background babble, baby's cries, whoops and various celebrations.
F used his keyboard to write :
I block ALL unknown numbers. Hospitals, GP receptionists and etc. are now well used to listening to the announcements from such systems and how to get through these systems. Mine always get through, though I check the caller log daily, just to make sure.
That can bite when the cops try to call you and tell you that one of your kids has been run over and that you need to show up at the hospital before it dies etc.
This particular one was a pre-record. Press 1 etc. It was the fact they couldn't get an English voice for BT that amused me.
Can you imagine what the Express would say if BT used an american actress for such a thing?
Having had a message severely curtailed so it didn't make sense has made me switch mine off, temporarily.
I got one of those the other week when away from home at another house. I wasn't sure if it was genuine (remote possibility of the line being ceased) so I pressed (1) to go through to the call centre.
I then asked the person at the other end who he thought he was speaking to. Logical, because if they were going to cut the line off the call centre would have the name on the phone bill, the address and the phone number.
Completely flummoxed.
Genuine call centre would have asked for the person who had the contract with BT.
Ah, well.
Dave R
+1
dkol used his keyboard to write :
The police, like the hospital staff and GP staff are now well used to these call blockers. The only people who fail to get through, are the nuisance callers.
my fav is when they say "we have been informed of your accident".......and they ask to tell them about it...I just say well you know about it tell me.....then they accuse you of wasting their time ...ha ha
Not possible when you only allow known callers to get through. And few are careful enough to check call logs daily and even with those who do, a day later and the kid could be dead.
If the child?s injuries are that serious the Police even in these times will more than likely make a personal visit rather than just ring up, Kids are the offspring of goats, Cops is more biased to American English so you sound foreign and probably live in a shithole where such niceties don?t take place. Quickly looks, ah from gmail so its that foreigner speedy again .
GH
dkol laid this down on his screen :
You are of course wrong...
Caller rings, phone doesn't recognise number so it is passed to the caller filter system, filter system plays a digital message asking caller to state their name and press hash. If they do that, my phone then actually rings, I pick it up, then hearing the name elect to answer the call reject it, or pass it to my answering system.
Nuisance callers never leave their name or purpose of calling, they are not fools and know their call would be just be rejected anyway. Rare is the genuine caller who fails to get through and I have never had a single nuisance caller attempt to get through the filter, by saying their name.
BT8500, brilliant!
I have no problems with hospital and doctor surgery calls when blocking number withheld, no information or International number calls.
If you are a BT phone customer it may also be worth subscribing (for free) to BT call protect and let them filter their scam blacklist numbers and not setting the other filters to allow you to chose on your own phone filters.
We'll see...
Mark wasn't talking about anything like that.
If you get a call like that it will be a scam probably giving you a premium rate number to call back.
Modern call blocking phones give a human caller the opportunity to still get through. They get a short message asking them to press a key on the phone and to give their name. The phone then rings and/or the answerphone cuts in, depending on what you have configured. A robot playing a scam message doesn't have this ability and human scammers/cold callers tend not to bother. A genuine Police officer attempting to contact you via the phone can easily get through.
One of the current scams is a message saying that an arrest warrant in your name has been issued and you must contact the case officer for more information. I believe this scam is about an unpaid fine that can be cleared with an immediate payment facilitated by giving your bank details.
BT's Indian call centre?
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