To post this number here 0141 319 5945 and tell you what just happened

[trashcanjunkie]

Somehow my mobile has been added to a list…. Loads of unwanted calls but these fuckers have rung me four times this morning and eventually I’ve answered (by mistake thinking it was school) and when I’ve said I don’t want to receive cold calls the guy said ‘fuck you - go and fuck yourself and your mother can go and fuck herself…..

I’m already on the telephone preference and I will block the number but feel a bit violated - when I googled the number I couldn’t find anything on the company but loads of others have logged it as a harassment call - do I log it with police or is that over egging?

We had a new landline phone about a year ago, and it came with the ‘announced calls’ facility. So If someone calls they have to say who they are. We have only had one unwanted call where they actually bothered to go through this.
When a friend rings you can activate ‘accept calls from this number’ so they don’t have to keep going through the announcing rigmarole.

I'm impressed by how many of you still have a home landline. I haven't bothered with one for years!

I have a landline unplugged in the cupboard because my broadband was cheaper with it

I got a threatening cold caller who said they were going to send police round to my house shortly. I replied as it was that serious I would start recording the call for the police. I said I'm recording now and the cold caller hung up.

Pretty sure over 70% of households have landlines.

@LagunaBubbles

This won't be the right number as I get a lot of calls from mobile numbers like this that seem ti be able to hack numbers to make people answer.

I'm pretty sure that's a Glasgow landline number

I get similar calls - though nobody has told me to eff off. Yesterday I had one from a company who organised housing repairs for council or housing association tenants - I am not one and told them. I also had a call from a debt management agency who said they could help me consolidate debt and maybe even get some written off; I told him I am not in debt, I have a mortgage and owe maybe £150 on B'card but that is all. Endless insurance companies and the like telephone me on my mobile, once a pharmacist enquiring if I wanted my prescriptions processed by them and delivered - I am on no prescription medication and if I was, I would use the chemist down the road, not one a few miles away. Sheesh! None today so far.

I wonder why the guy resorted to verbal abuse with you, they are usually overly polite. However working in a call centre must be a horrible job, quite thankless, and I daresay some people who do it reach the end of their tether.

There's no point in telling the police, what can they do? Just chalk it up to experience and move on.

I looked up the number (Glasgow) and it appears to be harrassment and scam.

The other one I have done if they are really persistent is to ask if they could stay on the line for just a bit longer as my husband is in security and the tracking device will be plotting their location in 3…2…1…

@TabithaTittlemouse

Sing to them. In your best voice. They usually like Celine Dion.

Or Bohemian Rhapsody!!!

Biggest CF I ever had was the bloke who rang and asked me if I was interested in IIRC double glazing. I said no thanks goodbye and put the phone down. He phoned back and said "I hadn't finished" Of course I said "you have now" but I did laugh.
Yeah block and ignore.

The call is almost certainly not coming from that number - it's probably a cloned number. They do that so it looks like the call is coming from a normal UK landline rather than a throwaway mobile or somewhere overseas. I suspect.

It's a waste of time telling them you don't want to be contacted again or talking about GDPR or any of that stuff. They're not an actual company; they're con artists. That's why they'll happily tell people to fuck off - they're not risking anything by doing that.

They're also probably using automatic dialling software to place the calls that's just working through every number beginning in 07, rather than actually using a database of personal info.

Next time, just hang up and block the number. There's no point in telling the police.

DS had one the other day trying to sell him a phone contract or something. They’d rung his mobile. He told them he didn’t have a phone. 🤣 They then asked if he wanted a laptop 🤣. He hung up.

We bought a phone with BT call guardian a few years ago after a really bad day where we were obviously on some sort of call list and had received 16 nuisance calls.
We can programme in known numbers so they come straight through, but others have to say who they are and we can choose to accept, reject, or send to voicemail. If the caller hangs up or does not speak the call is terminated without disturbing us.
It also gives us the opportunity to accept or reject withheld numbers, so if we are expecting a call from a switchboard / large organisation we can take it.
Before we got this phone I used to get annoyed at being disturbed by the nuisance calls, but more so when having ignored a load of calls I would find a missed one from someone I would have liked to have taken.
Whilst I can understand the frustration and threat of a whistle ( which the caller in the OP definitely deserved) there is another human being on the other end of the call, and they probably have to be fairly desperate to work in a call centre as a cold caller.

I've been called by this number aswell. I don't answer to numbers I don't know without a quick Google, I saw it was a spam so I blocked it. However they've called me 27 times since then. Just forget it op, they're sad little people with nothing better to do

Any number I don't recognise and where I'm not expecting a call or imminent delivery (occasionally get lost drivers!), I don't answer and I google it. If it's a genuine caller, they'll leave a voicemail or will call back. If I find it's a company or individual I actually want to talk to I'll call them back myself. 9 times out of 10 it's a scam caller and I just block it and get on with my day.

@Theunamedcat

I have a landline unplugged in the cupboard because my broadband was cheaper with it

Ours is in the cupboard too, but plugged in. One person still calls us on it...

In the earlier days of mobiles I remember the advice was to keep your landline for 'emergencies' in case the mobile signal was poor/nonexistent.

I had about four last week showing a Glasgow area code, that’s the start of the scam.

I do have a reason for needing to answer unknown numbers, but I don’t speak until they do and if it’s a cold call I don’t speak at all, just leave it silently hanging. If it’s genuine I just say I needed to filter the call as we’ve had quite a few nuisance callers.

I'm pretty sure that's a Glasgow landline number

It doesn’t mean that’s the real number though. They have tech to make the incoming number look like more reputable numbers than the dodgy mobile they’re actually calling from, or potentially overseas country. So they might just be using the Glasgow number as a front but aren’t actually associated with it.

That's probably a completely innocent person's number you've posted here. These scammers spoof real numbers, use them for a day or two and move on to a new batch.

I cluck like a chicken to cold callers. It amuses me.

And always answer: Is that Dutchoma” speaking with: “Who is calling, please”, never with “Yes”.

Just block it. I often answer then just leave the phone there until they hang up.

@StrychnineInTheSandwiches

blow a whistle down the phone

I can thoroughly recommend an Acme Thunderer, the old style piercing teachers' whistle.

I can't believe you would even consider reporting this to the police. Just block the number and forget about it fgs.

@Darley368

I'm impressed by how many of you still have a home landline. I haven't bothered with one for years!

You clearly don't live in the wilds of deepest Norfolk then!