Unsolicited calls - fight back

Harry Bloomfield · 2014-07-21T12:34:19+00:00

I don't know if this idea might have any mileage, but.... Some of these callers leave a genuine number on caller ID. If they do, I always ring them back on the chance it might have been a genuine call from someone I might have needed to speak to anyway. If it proves to be one of 'those' calls I always have something nasty to say to them, some don't answer and leave you listening to music. The point is, ringing them back I assume blocks lines up? Might it be worth someone setting up a web site with these numbers and then we ring them, keep on ringing and block their lines as they do to us? The telecom industry has done nothing, the UK government seems tooth-less to do anything, but the technology is there and able to do something given enough wish to do something about it.

Jul 21, 2014 25 Replies

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The Other John 11 years ago

Had a silent call a couple of days ago and 1471 said the number was 000 0800 138 9084 which looks like a made up number to fool the unwary. ICBA to ring it!

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Tim Watts 11 years ago

yyyyyy is a local number

0-xxxx yyyyyy is a national number 00-zz xxxx yyyyyy is an international number.

ergo it was aliens calling from another planet.

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bert 11 years ago

S*it - and I missed them.

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Dave W 11 years ago

Three more than 11 digits. If you Google for the last 11, plenty of people have had calls from that number.

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The Other John 11 years ago

Surely with international codes added you get more than 11 digits don't you? Had another one today which was allegedly from

001 210 249 0540 which indicates US origin doesn't it?

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S Viemeister 11 years ago

San Antonio, Texas

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