On Tue, 26 Jul 2011 23:41:23 +0100, "brass monkey" wrote:

I must get at least one call every 2 days usually from one of our Indian
friends, am I alone? There must be dozens of these *******s going through
the electoral roll and I haven't yet found the best reply. Usually you can
hear noise in the background so I've tried slamming the phone down before
they can be bothered to speak. I've tried acting deaf/not understanding,
keeping them there for ages. Asking where they got my number, asking what is
their number. When you tell'em to effectively ****-off they carry on talking
as though reading from a card. It's ok when you can recognise the voice, you
just say 'oh no, not you again' and put the phone down.
How do you folks handle these bods? There must be a lot of cash to be made
in this insulation game.

We all get them. I won't waste my time so will normally hang up
straight away. If they are calling from abroad then there will
usually be no CLI so I don't even answer the phone. If it's a UK
number I might complain to the TPS or the ICO, but that's pretty
pointless nowadays.

All this cold calling has had another bad effect in that some of our
aged relatives will often not answer the phone whoever is calling. We
have told them about the TPS and CLI but it is a waste of breath.
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