Soldato
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Damn, thought this was the title of a new game. 
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the more you answer the more they call.
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Depends how you answer I think...
I used to get loads, until I started answering them, getting put through, and then stringing the real person on for as long as possible. I don't seem to get them anymore
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I stopped getting them once I unplugged my landline upon the realisation that I've not had a legitimate call on it in about 10 years.
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Depends how you answer I think...
I used to get loads, until I started answering them, getting put through, and then stringing the real person on for as long as possible. I don't seem to get them anymore
my plan is next one i get i'm just going to scream down the line like i'm being murdered.
although i tend not to get many, thank god.
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I have had two in two days - Wife answered first one and they said this is BT we are cutting off your BB and land line for unautherised usage - wife pood her knicker and fortunately the call went dead before she could press one.
Another today while we were out and left a message - both numbers are now blocked -This was from Amazon Prime .
I have had my mobile number for 21 years and this week is first time I have had spam on it - blocked both numbers.
Pain in the bum
Another today while we were out and left a message - both numbers are now blocked -This was from Amazon Prime .
I have had my mobile number for 21 years and this week is first time I have had spam on it - blocked both numbers.
Pain in the bum
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I've had 3 calls about my amazon prime account this week, saying press 1 if I need to query it.
I don't even have amazon prime.
Very annoying, but some poor devils must get sucked in.
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Used to get 10-15 calls a day on the landline when the French government started their “insulate your old house for €1”. After answering the phone in English for a week, they stopped calling...
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I sometimes get them from about 7am in the morning and on a bad day it can be 5 or 6, fortunately they seem to come in waves.
We've got a "true call" phone thingy from BT which cuts it down a lot, but unfortunately I can't unplug the phone or tell it to block all withheld/not in my phonebook numbers as the various hospital departments and GP etc tend to use withheld numbers and more than once we've been waiting on an appointment and they've rang up to say "we can give you for X date (3-4 days) but if you can't make it, it'll be months".
About the only good thing in regards to Covid was we had a period of around 3 months where we got not a single spam call, oddly enough it coincided with the Indian/Pakistani governments shutting down the call centres.
We've got a "true call" phone thingy from BT which cuts it down a lot, but unfortunately I can't unplug the phone or tell it to block all withheld/not in my phonebook numbers as the various hospital departments and GP etc tend to use withheld numbers and more than once we've been waiting on an appointment and they've rang up to say "we can give you for X date (3-4 days) but if you can't make it, it'll be months".
About the only good thing in regards to Covid was we had a period of around 3 months where we got not a single spam call, oddly enough it coincided with the Indian/Pakistani governments shutting down the call centres.
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I get the odd ambulance chasers saying that I had a road accident. When I get through to a human, I ask "so, which year did I have this accident?" Gets them every time, and as a result, I get fewer of these type of calls now.
My last road accident was in 1990.
I don't get them via landline, I'm with a VoIP service essentially via my FTTP internet provider, I still have a regular telephone number with a London (020) dialling code but they don't call me.
I have recently had a call about once a week on my mobile... I kind of see it as a duty, if I have a moment, to deliberately waste their time... they're getting good though - like I do string them along for a few minutes, they seem to be getting better at detecting sarcasm than they used to be. I used to string out a story about how I was driving on the motorway and the accident happened because a firm just like them happened to call me etc.. but now that gets them to insta quit the call.
If you get them to string it out for long enough you can get them really angry when they realise you're on a wind up. Also previously you could sometimes get put through to a UK solicitors firm... which was quite amusing, the guy with the heavy Indian accent and Anglo name at the marketing firm in India/Pakistan puts you through to some dodgy firm in Manchester and a guy with an Asian name and Manc accent.... for extra irony if you could leave it till that point to start accusing the actual brit, a legit (but dodgy) solicitor of being some Indian call centre worker.
I have recently had a call about once a week on my mobile... I kind of see it as a duty, if I have a moment, to deliberately waste their time... they're getting good though - like I do string them along for a few minutes, they seem to be getting better at detecting sarcasm than they used to be. I used to string out a story about how I was driving on the motorway and the accident happened because a firm just like them happened to call me etc.. but now that gets them to insta quit the call.
If you get them to string it out for long enough you can get them really angry when they realise you're on a wind up. Also previously you could sometimes get put through to a UK solicitors firm... which was quite amusing, the guy with the heavy Indian accent and Anglo name at the marketing firm in India/Pakistan puts you through to some dodgy firm in Manchester and a guy with an Asian name and Manc accent.... for extra irony if you could leave it till that point to start accusing the actual brit, a legit (but dodgy) solicitor of being some Indian call centre worker.
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I used to pretend to be hard of hearing and make them repeat everything. Then shout to "maureen" my wife to ask her.
They normally gave up after 5 minutes of this.
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Unfortunately I've never had one of these calls when I've had the time to string them along.
My plan is to start by asking what they're wearing and go from there. Anyone remember the prank calls to the FBI agent in the film Hackers? That's where I'd go....
My plan is to start by asking what they're wearing and go from there. Anyone remember the prank calls to the FBI agent in the film Hackers? That's where I'd go....