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Spam calls that just hang up?

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Flairmaine · 16/11/2022 10:37

Does anyone else get these? I'm getting them almost daily. Spam calls that just hang up about 3 seconds after you answer. I rarely pick up but when it's a London number I sometimes do as a lot of my colleagues use London numbers. What's the point of them? I don't get it...

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Sewfedupofcovid · 16/11/2022 10:42

We’ve got called display, the latest annoying one ends 112, for some reason our call blocker doesn’t seem to work on this one. I often repeat our answer phone message and add a beep, if it’s a genuine caller who starts to leave a message I then laugh it off.

kittykarate · 16/11/2022 10:45

It's basically they have an automated system doing the dialling, when someone picks up it is supposed to connect you to someone in the call center to start the spamming process in person. If there aren't any human spammers available, it just hangs up.

kittykarate · 16/11/2022 10:46

So if you pick up the phone and leave a long-ish pause before you say hello, usually the system thinks 'shit - answering machine' and hangs up on you. It's a really low tech way of filtering them out

Flairmaine · 16/11/2022 10:47

kittykarate · 16/11/2022 10:45

It's basically they have an automated system doing the dialling, when someone picks up it is supposed to connect you to someone in the call center to start the spamming process in person. If there aren't any human spammers available, it just hangs up.

Oh! That makes total sense!

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MrsDanversGlidesAgain · 16/11/2022 10:49

I was getting these in the middle of the night, 1471 the number and it's unavailable. Are they testing for live numbers or something?

PopsicleHustler · 16/11/2022 10:53

Uhhh, they drive me nuts

Its either Indian people claiming they are from the debt investigation department and I have loads of debts, and they want to help me and when I say ok name these debts, they hang up.

Beneficial, another irritating one. I think they have also started using different names for their business. They call me with a few household questions and when they ask me what age bracket do I fall into, I tell them 100 or 150 years and they say since you're not taking this call seriously, we are going to hang up and then one time intold them please stop calling me and she said, none are going to keep on calling you. This has been going on for about 3 years

There are a couple more, like washing machine insurance, with my name but a funny address and then they are telling me that my washing machine insurance has ran out. I didn't even have a washing machine insurance, I bought it second hand off gumtree.

One dodgy call came through as barclays actual number, the guy said my barclays account has been used for over 900 quid at John Lewis and then been attempted to have been used at a beauty salon for teeth whitening. Upon checking my online banking, everything was fine, so I was confused. And he said i am from thenfraud department at barclays, all we need is the last 3 digits on the back of your bank card. I am not that stupid or naive. My husband was listening to the call on loud speaker and as soon as he said hello they hung up.

Elisebev · 16/11/2022 11:05

I bought one of those phone systems which allows you to input into the directory any phone numbers which call you on a regular basis. Anyone else has to announce who they are and you can choose whether to take the call. It has cut down my spam calls to ZERO. Best purchase I’ve ever made

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