How to avoid nuisance phone calls???

Eucris said:
But it doesn't stop "autodialers".
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Sadly no, I just wish BT could get their act together to reduce the impact.....if they could/can.
 
My phone uses BT True Call and asks the caller to give their name. Only then does it ring and replay the reply that they give and offers me a choice of accept the call, not accept or block permanently. For numbers recorded in my phones contacts list, these calls come straight through. While I have a particular BT phone though not using a BT service, you can have this arrangement with any phone if you use BT (presumable have to pay extra). Initially, we found that calls from the NHS or Doctors were not coming through as they abandoned the call but they seem to be used to this now and do go through the system. Most spammers or commercial sales abandon the call. We can see such abandoned calls in the list and I will sometimes check them out. If they are dodgy, I block them but occasionally we may spot a genuine caller who did not get through.

Dave
 
I enjoy stringing them along for as long as possible ,I.e coughing fits , someone at the door , babies crying , need the toilet . . Kettles just boiled etc etc or reply in another language
 
Answer machine gets rid of most of them. My phone lets me set blocked numbers so I have now started to add a few. Also I did notice that some numbers on my mobile now show 'nuisance' or 'suspected scam' on some callers. Interestingly one of those was Ovo energy!

They say now not to bother being polite and just hang up without saying anything.

There's a guy on Youtube that's got some AI bots that answer these calls and string them along for ages. It's sent some of them into absolute rage which is brilliant. He mostly uses doddery sounding old people voices that just ask dumb questions over and over and over but seem to ask sensible things and sound like they will do what they want enough they keep with them.
 
Box Brownie said:
Sadly no, I just wish BT could get their act together to reduce the impact.....if they could/can.
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They (and all telcos) can. It costs money and there is no money to be made in blocking incoming calls. There is next to zero to be made in voice calls full stop.
 
We also use the answer machine to take all calls where we don't recognise the number and sometimes put an unknown number into Who Called Me ( https://who-called.co.uk/ ).

Nearly always it works well and the vast majority of bona fide callers(where sometimes we don't recognise the number) will leave a message. The dodgy callers never do.

Dave
 
Tringa said:
We also use the answer machine to take all calls where we don't recognise the number and sometimes put an unknown number into Who Called Me ( https://who-called.co.uk/ ).

Nearly always it works well and the vast majority of bona fide callers(where sometimes we don't recognise the number) will leave a message. The dodgy callers never do.

Dave
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This (y)

Though before banning the number I look it up, just in case???
 
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I haven't had a land line in 14 years maybe more, if i get a call on my mobile i don't recognise i answer it and just stay silent and see if anyone starts speaking, 9 times out of ten it just disconnects and i just add the number to spam, i get very little spam calls at on my mob tho.
 
I have a block list - some of it at a country level (no calls from Russia, China, Belarus,...) some at a city level (because I've had a large number from 3 particular areas - one in Ireland, 2 in the UK) some at a number level... Seems to work well for me.
 
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