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On Fri, 11 Nov 2016 02:22:17 -0000, Rod Speed
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On Thu, 10 Nov 2016 22:45:57 -0000, Rod Speed
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On Thu, 10 Nov 2016 19:26:57 -0000, Harry Bloomfield
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Mr Pounder Esquire wrote on 10/11/2016 :
Harry Bloomfield wrote:
This is the first to get through the net, since I installed our BT
8500's with the TruCall system 8-o .
The system logged a series of calls from 01134196912. Which at
first
glance suggested it might have been a genuine and local number, so
I
tried ringing it back and it rang unanswered, though it did sound a
bit odd the ringing tone. The caller had failed to announce their
name and press # to get through in each of their calls.
Then I tried to trace where the call had originated 0113 is a Leeds
code, also our area code, except all of our codes (so far as I am
aware) have a 2 following the code - 0113 2??????. 01134 didn't
seem
to exist, or so it seemed from Google.
The same caller tried again, this time said his name and pressed #.
I
accepted the call and from the accent it was probably a call from
either Australia or maybe South Africa. The caller wanted me to
take
a
survey - I will not repeat here what I said to him.
http://www.unknownphone.com/search.php?num=01134196912
Google failed to find that, for some reason. The comments made there,
are similar to what took place. They knew my name.
I disconnected my landline and only use my mobile.
Can't do that here, we don't have naked DSL in my town.
Guess that does mean you wont be moving here any time soon.
I have the line, there's just no phone on it.
OK, so you stated it poorly.
I'm lazy :-P
And we're about to get FTTN/VDSL and that has the landline
bundled with it too, you cant get it without a landline service.
Corse you don't have to plug a phone into it and some of my mates
don't.
Much less nuisance calls,
I get **** all now I'm on our do not call register, maybe one a week
in a bad week. And when one calls me anyway I just tell them that
they arent allowed to call me when its clear who they are, and they
just hang up without saying a word most of the time.
Our service don't work that good.
Plenty claim ours doesn't too.
Pot luck? Who knows. With ours they can still call you if you're a
customer, which seems to be used loosely.
and I can see the number.
I can on the landline too, but that does cost me $5/month.
And still get quite a few with the number suppressed.
I only answer those in my contacts list, or mobile phones (as these
tend
to be actual people),
Mad.
any other landline phoning me I look up first, then dial back.
Too much farting around IMO. I just answer it if I'm not doing
something else and can do that easily and tell them they arent
allowed to call me when its obvious its someone flogging stuff.
I only get the odd one on the mobile, about once every 2 months,
I don't get anything like that many on my mobile,
I might have got one in the whole time I have had
a mobile and that is decades now.
Depends how much you give the number out.
That might well be because our system means that you can't
call mobiles using a voip service for anything like the very low
cost per call that you can when calling landlines tho.
Must be something similar here, as mobiles get far less nuisance calls
than landlines.
usually trying again and again twenty times over a week.
I have had a bit of that, but not with numbers
that high, usually only 1 a day from those.
I've had them calling at 7am, which makes me ****ing mad as I charge the
phone next to my bed.
Sometimes I pick up the phone and yell abuse at them.
I usually abuse the worst of the arseholes that claim to be
calling from Microsoft etc when I've got nothing useful to do
with my time. I mostly just say 'you're lying' and they hang up.
One was Eon energy, which I've never dealt with.
I just had my ISP call me to offer me decent rates on my electricity
and gas and have just changed to them. But that is because I had
been considering shopping around for the best rates for electricity,
I don't have gas, and had decided not to previously because I was
on grandfathered rated because of the political situation here with
the privatisation of the electricity suppliers. He told me about a
very decent govt web site that allows you to compare the rates
for all except what they will pay you to change to them that made
it clear that the grandfathered rates had finished so I got off my
arse and compared them all and discovered that my ISP offers
the best handouts to change to them and close to the best rates
too, so agreed to change to them. I might well keep changing
suppliers at a fast rate to exploit the very competitive situation
here currently now.
I don't need calls to do that, I used a website years ago to select the
cheapest provider for energy.
I gave them a good rant about them ripping people off and didn't let
them
get a word in edgeways.
I bet that saw him hang himself as soon as the call ended.
This did, this is a call left on my answerphone after I abused a BT
Internet employee who called me from Ireland so I mistakenly assumed he
was calling to sell me something:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/0m3e8f4qe2...pdesk.mp3?dl=0
And this is a call someone else got from the same company and is all over
the internet:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/keoyw2jlm5...esman.mp3?dl=0
I have had quite a few useful calls over the years, one from the
local cop shop telling me that they had some of my stuff down
the cop shop because they had nabbed some stupid kids who
had been walking around the streets with a wheel barrow, quite
literally, helping themselves to stuff out of any cars they could
get into. I'd been out to a ****up the night before, in the days
before I starting brewing my own and had got a 6 pack from the
local drive thru bottle shop where they had you what you want
thru the passengers front door window and I had managed to
forget to lock that door in the 73 Golf that doesn't have central
locking.
Had someone I know very well manage to get robbed in Egypt
and lost all their cards and cash etc who called me to tell him
which numbers to call to have the cards cancelled too.
I also had that one quite literally ring me from the loony bin to ask
me which region free DVD player his wife should get and bring to
him in the loony bin so he could play his pirated DVDs on it.
Odd.
Very odd indeed that one. Love to have been a fly on the wall in the
court when he was frog marched off to the loony bin. Apparently he
proclaimed to the magistrate that they couldn't frog march him off
to the loony bin because that breached our freedom of religion
provision in our constitution. He initially came completely out of
his tree when a post in one of the online forums ended up with a
message number of 666 and he decided that some god or other
was trying to communicate with him direction and that was the
proof of that.
What was fascinating was how remarkably rational and coherent
he was to talk to even when he had just been frog marched off
to the bin. The DVD player I suggested he get his wife to get has
a surprisingly complicated way of making it region free, so I told
him to call me again when he had it and we'd set it up on the phone.
He managed that fine and was complete coherent all the time.
Got some utterly bizarre ideas, like the EU should be spending
vast sums of money on a military system so that when the US
gets too uppity the EU can **** them over militarily.
He converted to islam too and has been proclaiming for more
than a decade that what the world needs is a return to a caliphate.
Love to see his ASIS file. That's our equivalent of your MI5.
He showed up at the chinese embassy and demanded that
they accept him as a political refugee. They called the cops
and he got frog marched off to the loony bin again.
He's got his own web site. Completely barking mad but
surprisingly coherent when raving.