To have Shut Up by the Black Eyed Peas cued up.....

[Bunbaker]

ready to play at full volume the next time we get a nuisance phone call

We keep getting strange phone calls generated from outside the UK so they can't be blocked. These calls usually happen in the middle of the night, but today we had four on the trot, so I cued up Shut Up ready to play the next time they rang and now they have given up.

whistle down the phone

Black Eyed Peas as a form of torture... I think they deserve it.

I can't whislte loud enough scuzy

I mean whistle

Or Telephone by Gaga.

"sorry I cannot take this call, I'm kind of bu-sy, Stop calling, stop calling I cannot take anymore"

Can you tell it's my ringtone!

I have been getting a ridiculous amount of overseas calls, both recorded messages and real-life people. I got about 6 to 8 a day. I was fucked off agitated that I got straight onto the internet and bought a device called Truecall from QVC. It's great! You can block all overseas numbers from calling your home phone and any other numbers in the UK by "zapping" them. If you have friends or family overseas all they have to do is enter a pin no. (2 to 8 digits long) and they will be connected to you. Google Truecall and watch the video. I am so excited about mine! I haven't had a marketing call since. Hallelujah!

fuck you. by lily allen? :)

Love 'em.

toof I have been looking at these devices today. OH works from home so changing telephone numbers isn't practical, so we are seriously considering buying one.

It's worth it. I have had peace and quiet since blocking international calls. It's almost too quiet!! (I'm not complaining!!)
Thing is, you don't notice it if you're at work all day but as I am at home most of my day, I am inundated by these calls and they do my head in. I get scared that my son's school is calling me so I rush to the phone. I have fallen over stuff, ran out of the shower, ran in from the garden, almost burnt food, etc - all to answer the god-damn phone to an automated idiot asking me whether I have taken out a loan and, if so, I may be entitled to a PPI claim.
ARGHH!!

www.truecall.co.uk/

Have a look at the video.

"all to answer the god-damn phone to an automated idiot asking me whether I have taken out a loan and, if so, I may be entitled to a PPI claim.
ARGHH!!"

Registering with the TPS will take care of those kind of calls.

Having discussed it with OH we are seriously considering buying one of these call blockers. As OH works from home and DD is at school all day ignoring the phone is not an option.

Give the phone to a small child who can talk constantly about drivell

No small children and no-one awake at 3 am.

I yelled really loudly down the phone yesterday, but it didn't deter them and we got three more calls after that so I let them go to the answerphone. We just take the phone off the hook at night.

The number comes up as 018036 and is obviously from overseas. OH thinks that these people are deliberately trying to get us to ring them back so that they can make £££ from the call. I have googled this and found several forums with other people complaining about these nuisance phone calls.

I have also emailed Which to put pressure on telephone service providers to offer a call blocking service.

Bunbaker - I am registered with the TPS!! It seems to get 'round that. They must be based abroad.

I got a phone call from India not long ago asking me all sorts of personal information. I kept saying "Pardon? I can't hear you" even though I could but was trying to get him off my line so he shouted "F* YOU!" at me and hung up! I was livid. I don't need that abuse in my own home. He knew my number and I didn't have a clue what his number was. Now I am in control of who calls me. It's become a ridiculous situation.

I ask for ID please.... that throws them

"Bunbaker - I am registered with the TPS!! It seems to get 'round that. They must be based abroad."

We are TPS registered as well and we don't get any marketing calls from the UK. I know these calls come from abroad.

I have just spoken to Truecall and the salesman was brilliant. He told me that the perpetrator just diverts their number to a different exchange and every time we try to block a number they would divert to a different exchange so their product wouldn't work for us. We can't block all numbers from abroad as we often get legitimate calls from outside the UK. I really appreciated his honesty.

Hi Bunbaker, if you know the callers who call you from abroad, you can give them a pin number to enter and they can be put through to you.

Thanks toof, but sometimes we don't. OH works from home and he gets recommended to a company by a third party, so we do get the odd call from the US from someone wanting to employ his services.

I tried a different tack last night and said that the police were tracing the call. The next time I answered the phone with "Good evening South Yorkshire Police". It doesn't deter them, plus it is a different caller each time.