BEDROCK Posted April 22, 2013 Share Posted April 22, 2013 Hello, my phone line has recently been transferred from BT to Origin and I have a new number. But have recently been getting annoying phone calls at every hour of the day. On the display it says CALL then when I answer it goes silent then a voice says GOODBYE. On other occasions a foreign call centre rings for someone elses name, this is both annoying and quite alarming. When I was with BT I changed my number with them numerous times and always ended up having duff calls. I registered with TPS and it quieted down a lot while still receiving a small percentage of bad calls. Origin have offered to change my number again stating that these calls are randomly auto generated but I said if they did that with this new number then they will continue to do it with future new numbers. He said there are services called True Call and devices I can buy for £100 Like I can afford those, I believe that in this day and age we should be rid of all duff calls just like we can use Ad Block Plus on our browser. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeX Posted April 22, 2013 Share Posted April 22, 2013 He said there are services called True Call and devices I can buy for £100 Like I can afford those, I believe that in this day and age we should be rid of all duff calls just like we can use Ad Block Plus on our browser. Im with you on that one. These telephone companies have the ability to block the nuisance calls, but do not want to because they generate a lot of revenue for them. You as the poor customer receiving the calls are insignificant compared to the revenue generated by call centres auto dialing random numbers. Until ofcom does something about it (and stops those bloody survey calls too) we are stuck with it. I tend to ignore any calls from withheld numbers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allen Posted April 22, 2013 Share Posted April 22, 2013 That's why I have an answering machine. Let the machine take the call, and I ring back if I know who it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rampent Posted April 22, 2013 Share Posted April 22, 2013 Hello, my phone line has recently been transferred from BT to Origin and I have a new number. But have recently been getting annoying phone calls at every hour of the day. On the display it says CALL then when I answer it goes silent then a voice says GOODBYE. On other occasions a foreign call centre rings for someone elses name, this is both annoying and quite alarming. When I was with BT I changed my number with them numerous times and always ended up having duff calls. I registered with TPS and it quieted down a lot while still receiving a small percentage of bad calls. Origin have offered to change my number again stating that these calls are randomly auto generated but I said if they did that with this new number then they will continue to do it with future new numbers. He said there are services called True Call and devices I can buy for £100 Like I can afford those, I believe that in this day and age we should be rid of all duff calls just like we can use Ad Block Plus on our browser. This is all too MUCH!! You have me weeing myself here!!! I have some very good hiking socks that don't chaf and are cheap Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AngryDog Posted April 22, 2013 Share Posted April 22, 2013 Hello, my phone line has recently been transferred from BT to Origin and I have a new number. But have recently been getting annoying phone calls at every hour of the day. On the display it says CALL then when I answer it goes silent then a voice says GOODBYE. On other occasions a foreign call centre rings for someone elses name, this is both annoying and quite alarming. When I was with BT I changed my number with them numerous times and always ended up having duff calls. I registered with TPS and it quieted down a lot while still receiving a small percentage of bad calls. Origin have offered to change my number again stating that these calls are randomly auto generated but I said if they did that with this new number then they will continue to do it with future new numbers. He said there are services called True Call and devices I can buy for £100 Like I can afford those, I believe that in this day and age we should be rid of all duff calls just like we can use Ad Block Plus on our browser. Sorry, I'll stop calling you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rampent Posted April 22, 2013 Share Posted April 22, 2013 That's why I have an answering machine. Let the machine take the call, and I ring back if I know who it is. Very important information here folks :roll: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
megalithic Posted April 22, 2013 Share Posted April 22, 2013 We took the ringer out of our phone, never had a problem since. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AngryDog Posted April 22, 2013 Share Posted April 22, 2013 I actually just unplugged my home phone when I got sick of nuisance calls. People who want to call me have my mobile number. People who dont want to call me dont Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rampent Posted April 22, 2013 Share Posted April 22, 2013 I actually just unplugged my home phone when I got sick of nuisance calls. People who want to call me have my mobile number. People who dont want to call me dont Turn the mobile off then - nobody will call you anyways Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AngryDog Posted April 22, 2013 Share Posted April 22, 2013 Turn the mobile off then - nobody will call you anyways I couldn't possibly do that, how would I call Bedrock? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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