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

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trashcanjunkie · 01/03/2022 11:08

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?

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LunaLights · 01/03/2022 13:54

@Grumpyoldpersonwithcats - I didn’t refresh in time to see your post! Snap.

Applebrewsterstea · 01/03/2022 13:55

On the whole I try not to answer numbers I don’t recognise but occasionally if there’s something going on where we might get a call I do answer but I hesitate and see what I can hear before I speak, then more often than not I say my answerphone message, if it’s a valid caller they will start to leave a message and then I interrupt as if I’ve just picked up the call. Often it’s is a cold caller they ring off as I say the answerphone message.

Grumpyoldpersonwithcats · 01/03/2022 13:56

@LunaLights
Great minds eh? Grin

Nomoreusernames1244 · 01/03/2022 13:56

i'm the oldest, so he called me at work to find out what had gone on and why had i broken my phone. turns out i hadn't. but he almost fell for it

Out of interest, how would that work?

If I got that text I may well fall for it, but I’d always just go to my online banking and transfer the money from there. So even if I did believe it, the money would go into dc’s bank.

If they gave me unknown bank details or wanted it in itunes vouchers, that’s when i’d realise it was a scam.

Elphame · 01/03/2022 13:57

It's fun playing mind games with them.

The NHS/Covid ones are fun. More than once in reply to their "How are you?" question I've told them my dr has given me a few hours to live.

They are momentarily nonplussed but carry on with their script, with me replying that I'm sorry but I only have until 5pm to live. It's gets more and more ridiculous until they swear at me and hang up

Elphame · 01/03/2022 14:00

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.

There are few legitimate cold callers left. Most are well organised career criminals who are out to steal from you. As far as I'm concerned they get what's coming to them. Not one shred of sympathy. Cold call scams are big business.

The legitimate ones should not be calling me anyway as I'm on every opt out list I can find.

Phos · 01/03/2022 14:12

@WellTidy

I had a cold call from someone saying he was with Virgin (we are with Virgin which is why I started to listen) and it then quickly became apparent that he was trying it on. I said something along the lines of ‘it’s my husband who sorts out the broadband and I am pretty sure that he hasn’t asked for this [service you are trying to sell]’ and the guy told me that I was an arsehole and that my husband was a ‘very arsehole indeed’

Grin

Sneakily reading MN whilst on a zoom meeting and had to turn off my camera because I couldn't stop laughing.
WellTidy · 01/03/2022 14:19

@Phos ‘a very arsehole indeed’ has become a regular (tongue in cheek) insult in our house since!

Phos · 01/03/2022 14:20

[quote WellTidy]@Phos ‘a very arsehole indeed’ has become a regular (tongue in cheek) insult in our house since![/quote]
I love it when stuff like that happens :D:D

Lastofthecelebrations · 01/03/2022 14:22

@QueenoftheNimbleFlyingCat...I had the exact same response the other week..claimed to be calling from my bank, when I didn't bite he quoted my address and said he was coming to rape me!
I told him he was a real charmer!
Just block the number op and report as spam, not really much else you can do.

Carryonmarion · 01/03/2022 14:24

Thanks, number saved and blocked

GrannyWeatherwaxsHatpin · 01/03/2022 14:28

Some of the back stories I make up. I spoke none stop for 5 mins about the car accident I was in when I was drunk and a car knocked me down ruining my favourite tshirt that my uncle had brought me.

I like the "We believe you've had an accident that wasn't your fault" ones - I tell them I'm so glad they called because I have indeed had an accident. You can hear them mentally rubbing their hands...until I go into a long spiel about how I crashed my Ferrari into my Aston while swerving to avoid one of the peacocks, and how my pet Bengal Tiger which was in the passenger seat not only has PTSD after it, for which he'll need therapy, but he was wearing a diamond tiara at the time and some of the stones were lost in the crash.

I've never been able to get the story further than that before they hang up.

1forAll74 · 01/03/2022 14:28

I never answer these type of calls, if I see its an odd ball number that's not recognised. I just feel sorry that their must be hundreds of men, who are wasting their lives away having jobs like this. I think its usually men who do this kind of job.

LadyCordeliaFitzgerald · 01/03/2022 14:29

Since the HSE hack in Ireland it’s just a normal part of life dealing with these bastards. My elderly dm gets them everyday and she can’t not answer numbers she doesn’t know because my dad had loads of medical appointments, a care team, district nurses etc ringing.

Now these guys have names, addresses and social security numbers. They are relentless. Once you answer one of them they know you’re a live caller and they don’t stop.

Lizzy1980 · 01/03/2022 14:41

@WellTidy

I had a cold call from someone saying he was with Virgin (we are with Virgin which is why I started to listen) and it then quickly became apparent that he was trying it on. I said something along the lines of ‘it’s my husband who sorts out the broadband and I am pretty sure that he hasn’t asked for this [service you are trying to sell]’ and the guy told me that I was an arsehole and that my husband was a ‘very arsehole indeed’

Grin

Sorry, shouldn’t laugh but ‘very arsehole indeed’ 😂
Deathraystare · 01/03/2022 14:47

Reminds me of when our reception was plagued by these calls. In the end, one of the porters came on the phone and said he couldn't really speak as he was dead.....

Bless them, they did eventually get off the line.

Ilovenutellaaaaa · 01/03/2022 14:48

I once got told that he was going to rape me and he knew where I lived when I refused to participate

Shock that is scary

Rosehugger · 01/03/2022 14:50

I usually Google the number - if other people have had nuisance calls from it it will likely come up with some information on the number to that effect. Then I block the number.

Rosehugger · 01/03/2022 14:52

If you google the number the OP posted:

who-called.co.uk/Number/01413195195 lots of people are commenting "Unknown caller, has called many times".

Lizzy1980 · 01/03/2022 15:03

I had some fun with a very persistent caller from one of those personal injury claim places. They said that I was entitled to compensation following my accident. I asked them how they’d found out about my ‘accident’ as I hadn’t told anyone because I was quite embarrassed about not making it to the loo in time. I went into a fair bit of detail about being caught short when I was out shopping and having an ‘accident’ in the fruit and veg aisle in Sainsburys. Funnily enough they hung up

jcyclops · 01/03/2022 15:10

Foreign cold callers use Voice Over IP to route the call to UK and it is then released to the phone network with a false number. If you have ever had one of these calls then YOUR NUMBER could be used by their computer as the originating number to call someone else. This is what happened to @Leftbutcameback higher up the thread - resulting in angry phone calls from those who had been cold called, apparently by @Leftbutcameback.

My advice is to NEVER call the number back. Also there is little point in blocking the number, the next time they call they will use a different one, and there is a remote chance you could block a number that does need to contact you. TPS has no effect as the companies are based overseas - out of reach of UK legal remedies. Ofcom has asked providers to tackle the problem, but it will take until 2025 for the whole network to have been upgraded to deal with this - see www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-59032795

Note that there are over 180 million scam calls of this type each year.

WinniesHunny · 01/03/2022 15:12

@KloppsTeeth

I tell them I’m dead. They apologise and never call again. Obvs, I don’t say “I’m dead” I just say, “she’s dead mate, sorry. I’m just the cleaner”.
I do tell them I'm dead.

"I'm calling about your recent accident"
"Yes, it was Fatal. My parents were so upset that their only child has died"
"Sorry to hear that. Were you injured?"
"Yes, I died at the scene"

Etc, etc until they actually realise what I've said and hang up. Always happy to waste some of their time.

FuzzyPuffling · 01/03/2022 15:24

[quote TroysMammy]@FuzzyPuffling not owl noises? Grin[/quote]
Next time, next time...! 😁

ThinWomansBrain · 01/03/2022 15:31

who-called.co.uk/
lets you rate cold callers - or rather identify mobile numbers that are cold callers or otherwise nuisance calls - I often check it if I get a call from a number that I don't recognise.

iloveeverykindofcat · 01/03/2022 15:34

I had quite a convincing one the other day - an automated call from the 'fraud department' in exactly the same robotic voice my bank uses, telling me to press 1 if I did authorise a transaction of x pounds or 2 if I did not. Almost caught me but I thought 'nah' at the last second, looked it up and its a scam. Watch out for that one. Remember, if your bank releases money without your authorization, its their problem not yours. They have to refund you.