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How do you stop nusence international calls?
1manonthebog
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I have been having this problem since the summer, I notice it more at the weekends obviously being at home all day but today so far I have had 6 calls, and we are only half way through the day, calls can come up as international or they can spoof any number, I have had British area codes but they are from the same indian/Pakistani company.
9 times out of 10 its to do with surverys, you say not interested but they don't listen they are extremely persistant, I've told them they have the wrong number but no good they don't actually care who they are talking to as long as someone does the survey. I have also had them calling about PC viruses, PPI but the survery crowd are the most persistent.
Any ideas?
9 times out of 10 its to do with surverys, you say not interested but they don't listen they are extremely persistant, I've told them they have the wrong number but no good they don't actually care who they are talking to as long as someone does the survey. I have also had them calling about PC viruses, PPI but the survery crowd are the most persistent.
Any ideas?
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Decided the next one is just going to get hung up on as soon as they start.
Instead I see on screen, how many calls have been blocked.
http://www.shop.bt.com/learnmore/bt-branded-products-and-services/the-new-bt8500/
Its similar kit to whats in Andrue's post, but built into the phone instead. Great if you want some new phones as well.
They are OK if there is a particular number you want to block.
Can it block particular "withheld" numbers as I would not want them all blocked as doctors surgeries hospitals can call on a "withheld" number, and so can the idiots who tell me I have been miss-sold some ppi or some such junk.
Can it block selected "international" calls like those foreign calls about my computer having a virus. I would not want ALL "international" calls blocked because I have friends who phone from abroad. I just want to stop calls from selected countries such as India where many unwanted calls come from.
As far as I am aware these phones can only block calls from "known" numbers and most nuisance calls are from "unknown or unavailable" numbers, many of these there is nobody to actually talk too just a recorded message.
My idea would be to make cold calling illegal and any company that did it would be fined a massive amount of money.
I must have been phoned up hundreds of times from these miss-sold ppi, solar panel, and computer virus companies. I would like the opportunity to cook the directors of these low-life cruddy companies in an industrial chip fryer, now that would give me deep joy.
In short, yes.
All you have to do is set the phone so that all callers have to announce themselves to get through (numbers on your contact list bypass having to announce themselves, and get straight through). That's what we have. We haven't touched the settings to bar withheld/international etc. We have one medical contact who phones regularly on a withheld number, and all she has to do is announce herself each time. People who really want to get through to you will happily announce themselves (and people who are just going to spam you with crap, won't).
We've even had a couple of tradesmen enquire about the service/phones for their own personal use after they've had to announce themselves to us. I've only ever had positive comments about them.
That's where Whispermode comes in so useful. Every caller not on my whitelist (or where the number is not known) goes through that.
http://www.truecall.co.uk/call-blocker/callblockerdescription/profile-custom/blocker-callflows/whisper.aspx
You could perhaps ask BT to block calls that don't have caller ID but then you're asking them to control who can and can't call you and they would be reluctant to do that. They would argue that it's not up to them to decide who is allowed to dial your number and that in fact it is their responsibility to ensure that any call goes through. That's what you're paying them for.
http://www.cprcallblocker.com/index.html
I told that to a MS Scammer caller who had been trying repeatedly to get us. I told him I knew exactly what he was doing, while he was scrabbling around saying "no sir no sir this is genuine" I cut over him and told him the call was being traced by my local authorities. He hung up and never had another problem.
Same set up here, the peace is priceless
I refuse to spend money on things like Truecall - I do not see why I should line BT's pockets to sort out a problem of their own making - BT win both ways - money from the sales calls and money from those buying equipment and options to stop them.
This is exactly how I feel about it too - having to spend upwards of £25 on devices such as the Call Saint to silence the calls to which you never agreed to in the first place despite being ex-directory and TPS registered.
Am currently dealing with unsolicited calls with caller ID and an answer phone, but maybe I'll buy one of those call blockers in the sales - the BT8500 mentioned above looks like it will do what I need and I'm getting very tempted to silencing the calls once and for all.
We have one of these and it really seems to have done the trick. It's also incredibly satisfying when you get to zap someone with the block button.
All in all I think you're just being silly. BT does not charge excessively for its services and there's definitely no point in developing a personal hatred of a company. Since you have a problem it's entirely reasonable that you pay for a solution to it. You are paying your provider to route calls to you and they are doing that. It's not their fault if other people are abusing that. I'm sure your provider will help you minimise the inconvenience if you ask them but ultimately it's like getting annoyed with your postman because he delivers bills to you.
And for more information on how international routing works and why BT may be largely powerless:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_telecommunications_routes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Least-cost_routing
However, don't let that put you off BT phones, because the recent BT8500 has rave reviews and truly does block all unwanted calls for us (Truecall built in), as I said earlier. Worth every penny. I suspect this is the phone BT are trying to sell you, and there are plenty customers out there praising it, if you read the very positive reviews.