Spam phone calls

I hope you report them.

I've had only two since I registered - when it started.

Mary

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Mary Fisher
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I don't know whether the default changed at some point. We have at least two friends who are ex-directory and whose numbers are witheld. They claim never to have specifically asked for CLI to be witheld!

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Set Square

TPS contacts the caller and points out that they shouldn't be doing it. I can't think why but that seems to work!

Mary

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Mary Fisher

Same here, on one line (the ex-d was added later, due to the nature of my job). I had a second line put in for the ADSL, and I was asked if I wanted it ex-directory. Since no-one will ever call it, I said yes; they added CLIP suppression without being asked.

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Bob Eager

That's interesting - and corresponds with my belief that CLID is witheld by default on ex-directory lines - but Andy Burns believes that it's the other way round. I wonder who's right?!

I post a query in uk.telecom and see what the response is.

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Set Square

Ditto.

Although it's now witheld by default.

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Huge

I frequently get calls from BT even though I'm registered with TPS. BT ring up in the guise of my telephone service provider - they insist that they aren't selling anything, but are just a caring company...

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Frank Erskine

I have had 4, but they have all been from the RNIB. I don't object to them ringing me up and I have told them so. The person that taught me about computers was blind and he used to wire up his own in the days before the 386 microchip. (A long time ago now. DOS 3.1 days, if anyone remembers that)

Dave

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Dave

ex-directory

Agreed.

I have had caller display for a number of year and every time the display showed number withheld, I took great delight in taking the call and if it was not some one I knew, who should withhold their number, then I would end the call within seconds. After joining the telephone preference service, I have had no further un-solicited calls, other than the ones I mentioned further up this thread.

I am thinking about joining the postal preference service, but I don't receive that many letters as it is. Am I that sad :-)

Dave

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Dave

Nothing to say that we're both right ... if BT don't have a policy that link ex-dir to CLI blocking, or if they have done different things at different times. My line was ordered with ex-dir from the start, not added later, line was installed recently (i.e not a long standing line that existed before CLI was available)

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Andy Burns

Just take the receiver off the hook.

I just pick it up, and either say hello' and if no one I know answers it or they don't know my name, down iot goes, or else just leave it off hook for half an hour.

You can join these 'i don';t want spam' things, but that doesn't stop the hardcore foreign calls from mumbai or the Ukraine..

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The Natural Philosopher

And nearly all from people sitting behind (usually badly set up ) PABX's.

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The Natural Philosopher

Its usually a scamn.

I got one of those and aksed if it was BT why they didn't know what my details were, since the (very indian) voice was asking for them.

They tried to tell me that it was because ne part of BT didn';t talk to anoter. I replied that if that was teh case, they should get talking first.

Now whenever I hear someone claiming to be from BT who doesn't know my name, I put the phone down.

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The Natural Philosopher

The vast majority are automatic diallers with recordings/robots number withheld, advertising premium rate numbers, I've reported two and not received any reply.

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bof

Most national and local govt departments, plus we lost a bed vacancy in our local hospital because the beds woman dials out with number witheld.

Also it does not stop spam from call centres abroad, and BT themselves seem to have been the first ones to notice that workaround.

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Tony Williams

Which is a right pain for the people that work there - we have to then call using a mobile, making the person we're calling suspicious of who we claim to be.

Our exchange can release caller id but according to the staff that manage it, the id it then releases is that of one of the half-dozen or so lines used to route the 200+ numbers of staff, i.e. not the number of the person calling and also not a number that can be rung back on, so it has to be turned off.

I've no idea if this is accurate or not.

John

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John

That's interesting, I don't - but I wouldn't mind. If I did I'd ask them not to do it again.

Mary

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Mary Fisher

Ah, DOS ...

Dostalgia isn't what it used to be ...

Mary

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Mary Fisher

It's amazing (by modern standards!) what you could achieve on a machine with

640kB (or less) of RAM and a 10MB hard disk!

Now, the *entry level* is 128MB of RAM and 20GB hard disk - mostly running bloatware!

Reply to
Set Square

I still have my copy of DOS 2.0, manuals and all...IBM gave it to me!

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Bob Eager

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