Aggressive cold caller

[mastertomsmum]

Just had a callback from a cold caller on whom I hung up the first time. In the first call they launched into their spiel and asked if I was the primary user of my home computer. So I said, what kind of computer is it? They just carried on burbling so I hung up. Called me back to remonstrate about how I need to answer the question and why did I hang up. Had I checked my ‘computer’s admin messages’ ?. So I hung up again.

Did they call back again?

They called just the 2 times

Get yourself a whistle. If they ring again blow the whistle loudly down the phone.
They won't ring again 😉

This happened to me. They rang back a third time, blew a whistle down the phone then left the phone off the hook (it was a landline).

Nice one😂 I hate being called “Ma’am” I’m not the Queen 😂

Just answer and leave the phone on the side, or start telling them random 'gossip'

I’ve found that ‘oh, just fuck off’ works as well as anything

Is your number on the TPS you can report companies for cold calling

For the scam windows ones…. I don’t have a computer feck off 🤣

I did this once - put the phone down and it rang again, same man, who said ' don't tell me to fuck off you bitch!' Really made me laugh tbh! I bet I was the hundredth that day and he finally snapped!!

Tell them you've been a previous victim of scams and as such you are required to tell them that your line is being monitored by the police and all calls are being recorded. That gets rid of them pretty quick.

I respond with, 'oh, is this today's scam? Pity, yesterday's was soooo much better', and hang up.

I had one persistently and incredibly aggressive caller, that made me into her pet project (condescending tone and ma'ams, and all). I am sad to say it took DH getting on the phone and getting very aggressive to her right back, to get her to cease and desist.

I just block numbers that are annoying.

I had to do cold call, double-glazing-type sales as a job once.

Our script was that if anyone said 'no,' we were supposed to just say 'thank you,' end the call, phone the next person on the list.

So, so many people would say 'I'm not sure, call again.' 'call back tomorrow', 'I'll ask my husband', 'I'm busy right now, call later.'

All those would get put on the call back list. You would have to call back until you got a 'no'

The ones who said no, were put on the list to call again in 2 years.

Plenty of people said yes, and got the 'double-glazing'.

I just couldn't stand the people who would say, 'call on Friday' on Friday: 'I'm a bit busy, call on Monday.' On Monday:I'm running late, call on Tuesday. On Tuesday 'Stop calling me!' and then they would be taken off the list.

But the script was that if they asked for a call back you had to do it.

So many people just wouldn't say, 'I'm not interested. Bye.'

The strategy of the company was that they were offering a service people wanted, so they would call as many people as they could to get some who were interested.

Tell them to take them off their databases. Slamming down the phone or telling them to FO doesn’t seem to work.

Block.

Check you’re registered on TPS (I was but that didn’t stop them calling)

Report to the toothless useless OFCOM but what else can you do?

PS!! I actually had one of those awful glazier companies today. When I said take me off your data base she said “have a nice day” really sarcastically/ nastily. I actually did have a nice day, so straight back at you B 🧙‍♀️

I always ask them the name & address of the company they are calling from. some are fool enough to tell me. then I put the info straight into the ICO website where you can report cold callers.