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Bob Eager wrote: On Thu, 21 Mar 2019 10:24:07 +0000, charles wrote: Maybe they run a cr@p VoIP system that can? The system is provided by Kingston Communications - in any case what has that got to do with phones - that service comes from BT Are you *really* asking what VoIP has to do with phones??? MY phone service is not VOIP. -- from KT24 in Surrey, England "I'd rather die of exhaustion than die of boredom" Thomas Carlyle |
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On 21/03/2019 10:24, charles wrote:
In article , dennis@home wrote: On 20/03/2019 21:47, Bob Eager wrote: On Wed, 20 Mar 2019 20:32:55 +0000, charles wrote: In article , John Rumm wrote: On 20/03/2019 16:15, charles wrote: In article , Mark wrote: On Wed, 20 Mar 2019 13:16:21 +0000, T i m wrote: On Wed, 20 Mar 2019 12:20:36 +0000, Tim Lamb wrote: In message , Harry Bloomfield writes After the number of nuisance calls my phone system was blocking, fell to almost no calls, there has been a sudden increase in their number in the past few days. 10 such calls yesterday blocked, all supposedly from different spoofed numbers. They do like to waste their time. Apparently my Internet service is compromised! Recorded announcement so I suppose the only cost is the call charge. I have also had a few 'This is Microsoft Technical' calls from India recently and after dispatching one (who was fairly persistent), also had the 'This is BT Technical, your line is compromised' recorded message with a press 1 or 2 option. Never respond to these! pressing '1' can connect you to a premium rate call number. That sounds unlikely... Got any supporting evidence? not in writing, but my ISP owner told me, And I tend to believe him. I would get a new ISP if I were you. It is patently not true. Maybe they run a cr@p VoIP system that can? The system is provided by Kingston Communications - in any case what has that got to do with phones - that service comes from BT not in kingston it doesn't. Its the only bit of the UK where BT doesn't run the phone service. |
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On Thu, 21 Mar 2019 08:19:53 -0000, "Brian Gaff"
wrote: I've noticed a gradual rise to mobile numbers as well over say, the last month or so. some are not spoofed but genuine chancers trying to sell stuff, usually some financial service or crap junk from China. At least some do have an opt out number to hit, and having checked this against charges, it seems to be legitimate and worked. On the landline its been pretty constant over time. I can tell from the call recorders whisper files. These get recorded when the device asks you to specify a name, and the pre recorded ones often stay connected long enough to register a short recording. Most of the others hang up and every so often I just add the numbers, real or otherwise to my local zap list It must be a thankless task for a human which I imagine is why so many are now pre recorded. I just wind them up if I can. They were looking for somebody, not me. I said I thought he was serving three years and suggested they try the Scottish Prison Service. |
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On 21/03/2019 12:20, charles wrote:
In article , Bob Eager wrote: On Thu, 21 Mar 2019 10:24:07 +0000, charles wrote: Maybe they run a cr@p VoIP system that can? The system is provided by Kingston Communications - in any case what has that got to do with phones - that service comes from BT Are you *really* asking what VoIP has to do with phones??? MY phone service is not VOIP. given that the 21cn network has provision for doing POTs via VoIP you can't be sure of that. We designed cards for the DSLAMs that could supply xDSL and POTs using VoIP for the POTs and they were controlled by a soft switch based on SystemX. They were to be installed in the cabinets in the streets so BT could sell the exchange buildings. |
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dennis@home wrote: On 21/03/2019 10:24, charles wrote: In article , dennis@home wrote: On 20/03/2019 21:47, Bob Eager wrote: On Wed, 20 Mar 2019 20:32:55 +0000, charles wrote: In article , John Rumm wrote: On 20/03/2019 16:15, charles wrote: In article , Mark wrote: On Wed, 20 Mar 2019 13:16:21 +0000, T i m wrote: On Wed, 20 Mar 2019 12:20:36 +0000, Tim Lamb wrote: In message , Harry Bloomfield writes After the number of nuisance calls my phone system was blocking, fell to almost no calls, there has been a sudden increase in their number in the past few days. 10 such calls yesterday blocked, all supposedly from different spoofed numbers. They do like to waste their time. Apparently my Internet service is compromised! Recorded announcement so I suppose the only cost is the call charge. I have also had a few 'This is Microsoft Technical' calls from India recently and after dispatching one (who was fairly persistent), also had the 'This is BT Technical, your line is compromised' recorded message with a press 1 or 2 option. Never respond to these! pressing '1' can connect you to a premium rate call number. That sounds unlikely... Got any supporting evidence? not in writing, but my ISP owner told me, And I tend to believe him. I would get a new ISP if I were you. It is patently not true. Maybe they run a cr@p VoIP system that can? The system is provided by Kingston Communications - in any case what has that got to do with phones - that service comes from BT not in kingston it doesn't. Its the only bit of the UK where BT doesn't run the phone service. I'm not in Kingston (upon Hull) -- from KT24 in Surrey, England "I'd rather die of exhaustion than die of boredom" Thomas Carlyle |
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Harry Bloomfield formulated on Wednesday :
After the number of nuisance calls my phone system was blocking, fell to almost no calls, there has been a sudden increase in their number in the past few days. 10 such calls yesterday blocked, all supposedly from different spoofed numbers. They do like to waste their time. ...and none of the calls at all, since the 19th. There were 10 calls blocked, all from spoofed numbers and 8 of them presented different numbers. The sudden rise and fall in the number, suggests to me that all must have come from the same source and they were very keen to try to get through :-) |
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On 21/03/2019 08:19, Brian Gaff wrote:
I've noticed a gradual rise to mobile numbers as well over say, the last month or so. some are not spoofed but genuine chancers trying to sell stuff, usually some financial service or crap junk from China. At least some do have an opt out number to hit, and having checked this against charges, it seems to be legitimate and worked. Those opt-outs should be changed to opt-ins - it's very hard to opt-out when you've picked up the landline on an only slightly updated, 80 year old, rotary dial phone! SteveW |
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On Thu, 21 Mar 2019 07:17:29 +1100, "Jac Brown"
wrote: "Harry Bloomfield" wrote in message ... Mark has brought this to us : I've decided to implement a very agressive call-blocker which blocks almost all unknown callers (i.e witheld, faked numbers etc). This has taken a long time for me to decide, but I think the risk of missing the odd legit call is worth it. That is what I do, only the known to the phones numbers get straight through, the rest can deal with the blocker. Any valid organisation will follow the procedure and get through the blocker, they are used to them. But someone you know who is desperate for some help from you, calling from someone else's phone or a borrowed mobile may be too desperate to fart around with the blocker. With mine they could leave a message, explaining who they are and I can decide whether to answer the call or not. -- Little Britain leaves. Great Britain stays. |
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On Thu, 21 Mar 2019 13:08:38 +0000, Steve Walker
wrote: On 21/03/2019 08:19, Brian Gaff wrote: I've noticed a gradual rise to mobile numbers as well over say, the last month or so. some are not spoofed but genuine chancers trying to sell stuff, usually some financial service or crap junk from China. At least some do have an opt out number to hit, and having checked this against charges, it seems to be legitimate and worked. Those opt-outs should be changed to opt-ins - it's very hard to opt-out when you've picked up the landline on an only slightly updated, 80 year old, rotary dial phone! IIRC the law says that it must be "opt-in" not "opt-out". -- Little Britain leaves. Great Britain stays. |
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On 21/03/2019 13:49, Mark wrote:
On Thu, 21 Mar 2019 13:08:38 +0000, Steve Walker wrote: On 21/03/2019 08:19, Brian Gaff wrote: I've noticed a gradual rise to mobile numbers as well over say, the last month or so. some are not spoofed but genuine chancers trying to sell stuff, usually some financial service or crap junk from China. At least some do have an opt out number to hit, and having checked this against charges, it seems to be legitimate and worked. Those opt-outs should be changed to opt-ins - it's very hard to opt-out when you've picked up the landline on an only slightly updated, 80 year old, rotary dial phone! IIRC the law says that it must be "opt-in" not "opt-out". UK law doesn't apply to other countries so they can still phone you. |
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On Thu, 21 Mar 2019 13:08:38 +0000, Steve Walker
wrote: On 21/03/2019 08:19, Brian Gaff wrote: I've noticed a gradual rise to mobile numbers as well over say, the last month or so. some are not spoofed but genuine chancers trying to sell stuff, usually some financial service or crap junk from China. At least some do have an opt out number to hit, and having checked this against charges, it seems to be legitimate and worked. Those opt-outs should be changed to opt-ins - it's very hard to opt-out when you've picked up the landline on an only slightly updated, 80 year old, rotary dial phone! Except they are not really opt-outs at all. They are a method of checking the number is valid thus increasing its value when sold on. |
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On Thu, 21 Mar 2019 16:07:42 +0000, "dennis@home"
wrote: On 21/03/2019 13:49, Mark wrote: On Thu, 21 Mar 2019 13:08:38 +0000, Steve Walker wrote: On 21/03/2019 08:19, Brian Gaff wrote: I've noticed a gradual rise to mobile numbers as well over say, the last month or so. some are not spoofed but genuine chancers trying to sell stuff, usually some financial service or crap junk from China. At least some do have an opt out number to hit, and having checked this against charges, it seems to be legitimate and worked. Those opt-outs should be changed to opt-ins - it's very hard to opt-out when you've picked up the landline on an only slightly updated, 80 year old, rotary dial phone! IIRC the law says that it must be "opt-in" not "opt-out". UK law doesn't apply to other countries so they can still phone you. UK law should apply to companies that do business in the UK. -- Little Britain leaves. Great Britain stays. |
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On 21/03/2019 16:26, Mark wrote:
On Thu, 21 Mar 2019 16:07:42 +0000, "dennis@home" wrote: On 21/03/2019 13:49, Mark wrote: On Thu, 21 Mar 2019 13:08:38 +0000, Steve Walker wrote: On 21/03/2019 08:19, Brian Gaff wrote: I've noticed a gradual rise to mobile numbers as well over say, the last month or so. some are not spoofed but genuine chancers trying to sell stuff, usually some financial service or crap junk from China. At least some do have an opt out number to hit, and having checked this against charges, it seems to be legitimate and worked. Those opt-outs should be changed to opt-ins - it's very hard to opt-out when you've picked up the landline on an only slightly updated, 80 year old, rotary dial phone! IIRC the law says that it must be "opt-in" not "opt-out". UK law doesn't apply to other countries so they can still phone you. UK law should apply to companies that do business in the UK. How are you going to enforce UK laws on overseas companies? |
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On 21/03/2019 13:49, Mark wrote:
On Thu, 21 Mar 2019 13:08:38 +0000, Steve Walker wrote: On 21/03/2019 08:19, Brian Gaff wrote: I've noticed a gradual rise to mobile numbers as well over say, the last month or so. some are not spoofed but genuine chancers trying to sell stuff, usually some financial service or crap junk from China. At least some do have an opt out number to hit, and having checked this against charges, it seems to be legitimate and worked. Those opt-outs should be changed to opt-ins - it's very hard to opt-out when you've picked up the landline on an only slightly updated, 80 year old, rotary dial phone! IIRC the law says that it must be "opt-in" not "opt-out". The law may say that, but the phone calls, still say something like, "Press 8 to be removed from our database" and when over a period of 6 or 7 weeks, you have received 10 phonecalls from the same company and don't have a tone dial on the phone you are answering with, it gets damned annoying! I could have left it off the hook and gone and grabbed another phone, but my wife has a long term illness, the phone was in the bedroom (ringer off) and she was asleep, with the light off and I didn't want to wake her in finding it quickly. SteveW |
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On Thu, 21 Mar 2019 16:40:19 +0000, "dennis@home"
wrote: On 21/03/2019 16:26, Mark wrote: On Thu, 21 Mar 2019 16:07:42 +0000, "dennis@home" wrote: On 21/03/2019 13:49, Mark wrote: On Thu, 21 Mar 2019 13:08:38 +0000, Steve Walker wrote: On 21/03/2019 08:19, Brian Gaff wrote: I've noticed a gradual rise to mobile numbers as well over say, the last month or so. some are not spoofed but genuine chancers trying to sell stuff, usually some financial service or crap junk from China. At least some do have an opt out number to hit, and having checked this against charges, it seems to be legitimate and worked. Those opt-outs should be changed to opt-ins - it's very hard to opt-out when you've picked up the landline on an only slightly updated, 80 year old, rotary dial phone! IIRC the law says that it must be "opt-in" not "opt-out". UK law doesn't apply to other countries so they can still phone you. UK law should apply to companies that do business in the UK. How are you going to enforce UK laws on overseas companies? If the company does business here then they must have a UK presence, yes? Therefore fines could be imposed for breaching UK laws. -- Little Britain leaves. Great Britain stays. |
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On 21/03/2019 16:10, Scott wrote:
On Thu, 21 Mar 2019 13:08:38 +0000, Steve Walker wrote: On 21/03/2019 08:19, Brian Gaff wrote: I've noticed a gradual rise to mobile numbers as well over say, the last month or so. some are not spoofed but genuine chancers trying to sell stuff, usually some financial service or crap junk from China. At least some do have an opt out number to hit, and having checked this against charges, it seems to be legitimate and worked. Those opt-outs should be changed to opt-ins - it's very hard to opt-out when you've picked up the landline on an only slightly updated, 80 year old, rotary dial phone! Except they are not really opt-outs at all. They are a method of checking the number is valid thus increasing its value when sold on. They know it is a valid number simply because the line has rung, they don't even need someone to answer, never mind press a button, to prove its validity. SteveW |
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On Thu, 21 Mar 2019 16:26:52 +0000, Mark
wrote: On Thu, 21 Mar 2019 16:07:42 +0000, "dennis@home" wrote: On 21/03/2019 13:49, Mark wrote: On Thu, 21 Mar 2019 13:08:38 +0000, Steve Walker wrote: On 21/03/2019 08:19, Brian Gaff wrote: I've noticed a gradual rise to mobile numbers as well over say, the last month or so. some are not spoofed but genuine chancers trying to sell stuff, usually some financial service or crap junk from China. At least some do have an opt out number to hit, and having checked this against charges, it seems to be legitimate and worked. Those opt-outs should be changed to opt-ins - it's very hard to opt-out when you've picked up the landline on an only slightly updated, 80 year old, rotary dial phone! IIRC the law says that it must be "opt-in" not "opt-out". UK law doesn't apply to other countries so they can still phone you. UK law should apply to companies that do business in the UK. Depends what you mean by 'do business'. If they have a branch or office in the UK, I agree with you but if they are based abroad and phoning UK numbers, I don't see how that would work. You can't get somebody extradited for an alleged crime that took place outside the jurisdiction. By that logic, if someone used a clone of my credit card in Hong Kong, they could be brought to court and prosecuted in the UK. How would that work? Extraordinary rendition? |
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Harry Bloomfield wrote: The TrueCall is good in that you enter your phone book and it lets any on that straight through. Any others have to jump through hoops to leave a message. Which I'd say no spam caller is going to bother with. It's also easy to disable - if you simply switch off the mains to it, it routes the lines straight through. Quicker than entering a code. Downside is it isn't free. It is free with a set of BT8500 phones :-) But can you update your caller list via the web using your computer keyboard or by copying text? Doing it on a phone keypad can be a PITA. -- *How come you never hear about gruntled employees? * Dave Plowman London SW To e-mail, change noise into sound. |
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On Thu, 21 Mar 2019 09:06:54 +0000 (GMT+00:00), "Graham."
wrote: Wrote in message: Had a new one last night. Asking for me by full name. "I understand you have shares in XXXX (a large multinational Co)". "I am calling from a large USA company who wishes to take this company over." Me: Please confirm in writing. Caller Hangs up. Makes a change from BT, MS and the other usual scammers. I've had the "Would you like to invest in fine wines" a couple of times. Never tried it but I'm told 'I'd like you to know that I'm not wearing any knickers' works quite well. |
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On 21/03/2019 16:40, dennis@home wrote:
On 21/03/2019 16:26, Mark wrote: On Thu, 21 Mar 2019 16:07:42 +0000, "dennis@home" wrote: On 21/03/2019 13:49, Mark wrote: On Thu, 21 Mar 2019 13:08:38 +0000, Steve Walker wrote: On 21/03/2019 08:19, Brian Gaff wrote: I've noticed a gradual rise to mobile numbers as well over say, the last month or so. Â*Â*Â* some are not spoofed but genuine chancers trying to sell stuff, usually some financial service or crap junk from China. At least some do have an opt outÂ* number to hit, and having checked this against charges, it seems to be legitimate and worked. Those opt-outs should be changed to opt-ins - it's very hard to opt-out when you've picked up the landline on an only slightly updated, 80 year old, rotary dial phone! IIRC the law says that it must be "opt-in" not "opt-out". UK law doesn't apply to other countries so they can still phone you. UK law should apply to companies that do business in the UK. How are you going to enforce UK laws on overseas companies? The calls are usually from overseas call centres that do not fall under UK law, but they are gathering customers for UK companies to actually sell goods or services. Simply extend the law to cover that by fining the companies in the UK for each call made on their behalf. SteveW |
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On 21/03/2019 16:44, Scott wrote:
On Thu, 21 Mar 2019 16:26:52 +0000, Mark wrote: On Thu, 21 Mar 2019 16:07:42 +0000, "dennis@home" wrote: On 21/03/2019 13:49, Mark wrote: On Thu, 21 Mar 2019 13:08:38 +0000, Steve Walker wrote: On 21/03/2019 08:19, Brian Gaff wrote: I've noticed a gradual rise to mobile numbers as well over say, the last month or so. some are not spoofed but genuine chancers trying to sell stuff, usually some financial service or crap junk from China. At least some do have an opt out number to hit, and having checked this against charges, it seems to be legitimate and worked. Those opt-outs should be changed to opt-ins - it's very hard to opt-out when you've picked up the landline on an only slightly updated, 80 year old, rotary dial phone! IIRC the law says that it must be "opt-in" not "opt-out". UK law doesn't apply to other countries so they can still phone you. UK law should apply to companies that do business in the UK. Depends what you mean by 'do business'. If they have a branch or office in the UK, I agree with you but if they are based abroad and phoning UK numbers, I don't see how that would work. You can't get somebody extradited for an alleged crime that took place outside the jurisdiction. By that logic, if someone used a clone of my credit card in Hong Kong, they could be brought to court and prosecuted in the UK. How would that work? Extraordinary rendition? How many nuisance calls have you received where the services or goods being offered are being advertised for a company that does not have a UK presence? I've not had one. They have all been for double glazing, new boilers, new kitchens, accident compensation, etc., where there is a clear UK presence that is simply using overseas call centres to get around the UK laws. SteveW |
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On 21/03/2019 16:43, Steve Walker wrote:
On 21/03/2019 16:10, Scott wrote: [snip] Except they are not really opt-outs at all.Â* They are a method of checking the number is valid thus increasing its value when sold on. They know it is a valid number simply because the line has rung, they don't even need someone to answer, never mind press a button, to prove its validity. It does however mean that they know that the number is one where the call likely to be picked up by a human. This might increase its value when sold on. |
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On Thu, 21 Mar 2019 16:45:49 +0000, Scott wrote:
On Thu, 21 Mar 2019 09:06:54 +0000 (GMT+00:00), "Graham." wrote: Wrote in message: Had a new one last night. Asking for me by full name. "I understand you have shares in XXXX (a large multinational Co)". "I am calling from a large USA company who wishes to take this company over." Me: Please confirm in writing. Caller Hangs up. Makes a change from BT, MS and the other usual scammers. I've had the "Would you like to invest in fine wines" a couple of times. Never tried it but I'm told 'I'd like you to know that I'm not wearing any knickers' works quite well. I ask them what colour knickers they are wearing (if female). Otherwise I ask them the colour of their boyfriend's knickers. -- My posts are my copyright and if @diy_forums or Home Owners' Hub wish to copy them they can pay me £1 a message. Use the BIG mirror service in the UK: http://www.mirrorservice.org *lightning surge protection* - a w_tom conductor |
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"dennis@home" wrote in message ... On 20/03/2019 21:47, Bob Eager wrote: On Wed, 20 Mar 2019 20:32:55 +0000, charles wrote: In article , John Rumm wrote: On 20/03/2019 16:15, charles wrote: In article , Mark wrote: On Wed, 20 Mar 2019 13:16:21 +0000, T i m wrote: On Wed, 20 Mar 2019 12:20:36 +0000, Tim Lamb wrote: In message , Harry Bloomfield writes After the number of nuisance calls my phone system was blocking, fell to almost no calls, there has been a sudden increase in their number in the past few days. 10 such calls yesterday blocked, all supposedly from different spoofed numbers. They do like to waste their time. Apparently my Internet service is compromised! Recorded announcement so I suppose the only cost is the call charge. I have also had a few 'This is Microsoft Technical' calls from India recently and after dispatching one (who was fairly persistent), also had the 'This is BT Technical, your line is compromised' recorded message with a press 1 or 2 option. Never respond to these! pressing '1' can connect you to a premium rate call number. That sounds unlikely... Got any supporting evidence? not in writing, but my ISP owner told me, And I tend to believe him. I would get a new ISP if I were you. It is patently not true. Maybe they run a cr@p VoIP system that can? No way for the criminal to do that at the place they are calling. |
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Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article , Harry Bloomfield wrote: The TrueCall is good in that you enter your phone book and it lets any on that straight through. Any others have to jump through hoops to leave a message. Which I'd say no spam caller is going to bother with. It's also easy to disable - if you simply switch off the mains to it, it routes the lines straight through. Quicker than entering a code. Downside is it isn't free. It is free with a set of BT8500 phones :-) But can you update your caller list via the web using your computer keyboard or by copying text? Doing it on a phone keypad can be a PITA. Why would you want to? With the BT 8500 a couple of key presses will add someone to your white list. Ditto a couple of presses to add to your black list. Anyone not blacklisted or whitelisted goes to answerphone. Thats more than adequate cold call blocking for 99% of folk. I speak as someone who has a redundant Truecall unit. Tim -- Please don't feed the trolls |
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"dennis@home" wrote in message ... On 21/03/2019 12:20, charles wrote: In article , Bob Eager wrote: On Thu, 21 Mar 2019 10:24:07 +0000, charles wrote: Maybe they run a cr@p VoIP system that can? The system is provided by Kingston Communications - in any case what has that got to do with phones - that service comes from BT Are you *really* asking what VoIP has to do with phones??? MY phone service is not VOIP. given that the 21cn network has provision for doing POTs via VoIP you can't be sure of that. We designed cards for the DSLAMs that could supply xDSL and POTs using VoIP for the POTs and they were controlled by a soft switch based on SystemX. They were to be installed in the cabinets in the streets so BT could sell the exchange buildings. Our VDSL2 service doesnt do POTS anymore, its voip for the voice service if you still want a voice service. Same with the fiber service. |
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Lonely Psychopathic Senile Ozzie Troll Alert! LOL
On Fri, 22 Mar 2019 06:21:16 +1100, cantankerous trolling senile geezer Rot
Speed blabbered, again: Maybe they run a cr@p VoIP system that can? No way for the criminal to do that at the place they are calling. Now let's hear YOUR explanation for it, all-knowing, senile Rot! VBG -- Archibald Tarquin Blenkinsopp addressing Rot Speed: "You really are a clueless pillock." MID: |
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On 20/03/2019 13:02, Scott wrote:
On Wed, 20 Mar 2019 12:20:36 +0000, Tim Lamb wrote: In message , Harry Bloomfield writes After the number of nuisance calls my phone system was blocking, fell to almost no calls, there has been a sudden increase in their number in the past few days. 10 such calls yesterday blocked, all supposedly from different spoofed numbers. They do like to waste their time. Apparently my Internet service is compromised! Recorded announcement so I suppose the only cost is the call charge. I told them to fix it asap as I will be looking for compensation for each day I am without service. My wife got one the other day. He wanted to know how many blue lights were on the router. "None. They're green" she replied. He rang off. (actually the router _does_ have blue lights, but she must have looked at the modem) Andy |
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Lonely Psychopathic Senile Ozzie Troll Alert! LOL
On Fri, 22 Mar 2019 07:20:28 +1100, cantankerous trolling senile geezer Rot
Speed blabbered, again: Our VDSL2 service doesn¢t do POTS anym Nobody gives a **** about what your VDSL2 service does or doesn't, senile Aussie troll! -- Archibald Tarquin Blenkinsopp addressing Rot Speed: "You really are a clueless pillock." MID: |
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"Mark" wrote in message ... On Thu, 21 Mar 2019 16:07:42 +0000, "dennis@home" wrote: On 21/03/2019 13:49, Mark wrote: On Thu, 21 Mar 2019 13:08:38 +0000, Steve Walker wrote: On 21/03/2019 08:19, Brian Gaff wrote: I've noticed a gradual rise to mobile numbers as well over say, the last month or so. some are not spoofed but genuine chancers trying to sell stuff, usually some financial service or crap junk from China. At least some do have an opt out number to hit, and having checked this against charges, it seems to be legitimate and worked. Those opt-outs should be changed to opt-ins - it's very hard to opt-out when you've picked up the landline on an only slightly updated, 80 year old, rotary dial phone! IIRC the law says that it must be "opt-in" not "opt-out". UK law doesn't apply to other countries so they can still phone you. UK law should apply to companies that do business in the UK. But the call centers don't. |
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"Mark" wrote in message ... On Thu, 21 Mar 2019 16:40:19 +0000, "dennis@home" wrote: On 21/03/2019 16:26, Mark wrote: On Thu, 21 Mar 2019 16:07:42 +0000, "dennis@home" wrote: On 21/03/2019 13:49, Mark wrote: On Thu, 21 Mar 2019 13:08:38 +0000, Steve Walker wrote: On 21/03/2019 08:19, Brian Gaff wrote: I've noticed a gradual rise to mobile numbers as well over say, the last month or so. some are not spoofed but genuine chancers trying to sell stuff, usually some financial service or crap junk from China. At least some do have an opt out number to hit, and having checked this against charges, it seems to be legitimate and worked. Those opt-outs should be changed to opt-ins - it's very hard to opt-out when you've picked up the landline on an only slightly updated, 80 year old, rotary dial phone! IIRC the law says that it must be "opt-in" not "opt-out". UK law doesn't apply to other countries so they can still phone you. UK law should apply to companies that do business in the UK. How are you going to enforce UK laws on overseas companies? If the company does business here then they must have a UK presence, yes? Not if they are employed to do the call center work. Therefore fines could be imposed for breaching UK laws. You can impose anything you like, but there is no way of making them pay that fine. |
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More Heavy Trolling by Senile Nym-Shifting Rot Speed!
On Fri, 22 Mar 2019 09:24:24 +1100, Jac Brown, better known as cantankerous
trolling senile geezer Rot Speed, wrote: If the company does business here then they must have a UK presence, yes? Not if they are employed to do the call center work. Therefore fines could be imposed for breaching UK laws. You can impose anything you like, but there is no way of making them pay that fine. Now ALSO an expert in UK law, senile Ozzie asshole? LMAO! -- about senile Rot Speed: "This is like having a conversation with someone with brain damage." MID: |
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Dave Plowman (News) used his keyboard to write :
But can you update your caller list via the web using your computer keyboard or by copying text? Doing it on a phone keypad can be a PITA. Not really, you key in the numbers in the first instance to ring them, the only extra effort is adding the name. If a regular caller should ring me, I just save the number and give it a name. I rarely add any to my call book, so minimal effort. |
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More Heavy Trolling by Senile Nym-Shifting Rot Speed!
On Fri, 22 Mar 2019 09:09:03 +1100, Jac Brown, better known as cantankerous
trolling senile geezer Rot Speed, wrote: IIRC the law says that it must be "opt-in" not "opt-out". UK law doesn't apply to other countries so they can still phone you. UK law should apply to companies that do business in the UK. But the call centers don't. Of course they do, idiot! -- The Natural Philosopher about senile Rot: "Rod speed is not a Brexiteer. He is an Australian troll and arsehole." Message-ID: |
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On 21/03/2019 22:09, Jac Brown wrote:
"Mark" wrote in message ... On Thu, 21 Mar 2019 16:07:42 +0000, "dennis@home" wrote: On 21/03/2019 13:49, Mark wrote: On Thu, 21 Mar 2019 13:08:38 +0000, Steve Walker wrote: On 21/03/2019 08:19, Brian Gaff wrote: I've noticed a gradual rise to mobile numbers as well over say, the last month or so. Â*Â* some are not spoofed but genuine chancers trying to sell stuff, usually some financial service or crap junk from China. At least some do have an opt outÂ* number to hit, and having checked this against charges, it seems to be legitimate and worked. Those opt-outs should be changed to opt-ins - it's very hard to opt-out when you've picked up the landline on an only slightly updated, 80 year old, rotary dial phone! IIRC the law says that it must be "opt-in" not "opt-out". UK law doesn't apply to other countries so they can still phone you. UK law should apply to companies that do business in the UK. But the call centers don't. The point is that in virtually every case, they are calling ON BEHALF OF a UK based company (there'd be no point in a non-UK company offering to fit a new kitchen for instance) and the law needs to cover the UK based company that has contracted the overseas call centre to make the calls for them. SteveW |
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On 22/03/2019 09:16, Steve Walker wrote:
The point is that in virtually every case, they are calling ON BEHALF OF a UK based company (there'd be no point in a non-UK company offering to fit a new kitchen for instance) and the law needs to cover the UK based company that has contracted the overseas call centre to make the calls for them. Unfortunately that doesnt make jack **** of difference. Renewable UK lies through its teeth and makes false claims and lobbies the government using false information, on behalf of all its members who are nearly all UK companies, but it cant be held to account becaus it is POLITICAL. Using arms length companies to do dirty deals... is standard practice. And buying dodgy goods from people you didn't explicitly set up is even more so "We bought what we thought was a proper legally obtained mailing list her honner!" Plausible deniability. Once my comany was approached by "Siemens". well they said they were Siemens, and they were registereed in SWITZERLAND as Siemens Switzerland - to supply some Cisco routers. Why I asked my business parmner, didnt they go straight to Cisco? And who were Siemens, Switzerland anyway? Then the penny dropped as my S African apartheid experiuence kicked in. These Ciscos were for someone under US embargo. Iran probably. And their credentials might fool a little greedy company, but not Cisco. The company was a deliberate fake setup to facilitate this. Whether uit was a genuine subsidiary of Siemens as they claimed, or not, I never discovered. There was no profit in it anyway, so we told them to **** off. -- "The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him." - Leo Tolstoy |
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On 21/03/2019 16:42, Mark wrote:
On Thu, 21 Mar 2019 16:40:19 +0000, "dennis@home" wrote: On 21/03/2019 16:26, Mark wrote: On Thu, 21 Mar 2019 16:07:42 +0000, "dennis@home" wrote: On 21/03/2019 13:49, Mark wrote: On Thu, 21 Mar 2019 13:08:38 +0000, Steve Walker wrote: On 21/03/2019 08:19, Brian Gaff wrote: I've noticed a gradual rise to mobile numbers as well over say, the last month or so. some are not spoofed but genuine chancers trying to sell stuff, usually some financial service or crap junk from China. At least some do have an opt out number to hit, and having checked this against charges, it seems to be legitimate and worked. Those opt-outs should be changed to opt-ins - it's very hard to opt-out when you've picked up the landline on an only slightly updated, 80 year old, rotary dial phone! IIRC the law says that it must be "opt-in" not "opt-out". UK law doesn't apply to other countries so they can still phone you. UK law should apply to companies that do business in the UK. How are you going to enforce UK laws on overseas companies? If the company does business here then they must have a UK presence, yes? No. What kind of business presence does a scammer require in the UK to carry out scams by phone here? Therefore fines could be imposed for breaching UK laws. I can sure a scam outfit in Kolkata will be quaking in its boots. Lets just hope they are not the kind of naughty people who would not pay a fine! (assuming you can identify who they are) One form of direct action you can take here, is to identify the VoIP operator that is providing call termination services in the UK and get them to remove or block their accounts. This is something that they tend to do fairly regularly anyway, since the scammers quite often avoid paying them, and they are also quite responsive to fraud reports. However there are hundreds of providers to choose from and the scammers will just rotate through new ones every so often, making sure they always have a handful of working services available to use. -- Cheers, John. /================================================== ===============\ | Internode Ltd - http://www.internode.co.uk | |-----------------------------------------------------------------| | John Rumm - john(at)internode(dot)co(dot)uk | \================================================= ================/ |
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On 21/03/2019 17:21, Steve Walker wrote:
On 21/03/2019 16:44, Scott wrote: On Thu, 21 Mar 2019 16:26:52 +0000, Mark wrote: On Thu, 21 Mar 2019 16:07:42 +0000, "dennis@home" wrote: On 21/03/2019 13:49, Mark wrote: On Thu, 21 Mar 2019 13:08:38 +0000, Steve Walker wrote: On 21/03/2019 08:19, Brian Gaff wrote: I've noticed a gradual rise to mobile numbers as well over say, the last month or so. Â*Â*Â* some are not spoofed but genuine chancers trying to sell stuff, usually some financial service or crap junk from China. At least some do have an opt outÂ* number to hit, and having checked this against charges, it seems to be legitimate and worked. Those opt-outs should be changed to opt-ins - it's very hard to opt-out when you've picked up the landline on an only slightly updated, 80 year old, rotary dial phone! IIRC the law says that it must be "opt-in" not "opt-out". UK law doesn't apply to other countries so they can still phone you. UK law should apply to companies that do business in the UK. Depends what you mean by 'do business'.Â* If they have a branch or office in the UK, I agree with you but if they are based abroad and phoning UK numbers, I don't see how that would work.Â* You can't get somebody extradited for an alleged crime that took place outside the jurisdiction.Â* By that logic, if someone used a clone of my credit card in Hong Kong, they could be brought to court and prosecuted in the UK.Â* How would that work?Â* Extraordinary rendition? How many nuisance calls have you received where the services or goods being offered are being advertised for a company that does not have a UK presence? I've not had one. They have all been for double glazing, new boilers, new kitchens, accident compensation, etc., where there is a clear UK presence that is simply using overseas call centres to get around the UK laws. Registering with the telephone preference service will knock out the majority of legit uk based cold callers. For the few that still ring, simply mentioning they are ringing a TPS listed number makes them vanish very quickly. -- Cheers, John. /================================================== ===============\ | Internode Ltd - http://www.internode.co.uk | |-----------------------------------------------------------------| | John Rumm - john(at)internode(dot)co(dot)uk | \================================================= ================/ |
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On 21/03/2019 16:41, Steve Walker wrote:
On 21/03/2019 13:49, Mark wrote: On Thu, 21 Mar 2019 13:08:38 +0000, Steve Walker wrote: On 21/03/2019 08:19, Brian Gaff wrote: I've noticed a gradual rise to mobile numbers as well over say, the last month or so. Â*Â* some are not spoofed but genuine chancers trying to sell stuff, usually some financial service or crap junk from China. At least some do have an opt outÂ* number to hit, and having checked this against charges, it seems to be legitimate and worked. Those opt-outs should be changed to opt-ins - it's very hard to opt-out when you've picked up the landline on an only slightly updated, 80 year old, rotary dial phone! IIRC the law says that it must be "opt-in" not "opt-out". The law may say that, but the phone calls, still say something like, "Press 8 to be removed from our database" and when over a period of 6 or 7 weeks, you have received 10 phonecalls from the same company and don't have a tone dial on the phone you are answering with, it gets damned annoying! Would it be less annoying if you had a tone dial phone, still got the same 10 calls, even though you pressed 8 every time? (or more likely got more than 10 calls since you have now verified that the number they are calling is actually being answered and listened to by a human, and so is actually more valuable to a cold caller than an unverified number!) -- Cheers, John. /================================================== ===============\ | Internode Ltd - http://www.internode.co.uk | |-----------------------------------------------------------------| | John Rumm - john(at)internode(dot)co(dot)uk | \================================================= ================/ |
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On Fri, 22 Mar 2019 10:55:07 +0000, John Rumm
wrote: On 21/03/2019 17:21, Steve Walker wrote: On 21/03/2019 16:44, Scott wrote: On Thu, 21 Mar 2019 16:26:52 +0000, Mark wrote: On Thu, 21 Mar 2019 16:07:42 +0000, "dennis@home" wrote: On 21/03/2019 13:49, Mark wrote: On Thu, 21 Mar 2019 13:08:38 +0000, Steve Walker wrote: On 21/03/2019 08:19, Brian Gaff wrote: I've noticed a gradual rise to mobile numbers as well over say, the last month or so. *** some are not spoofed but genuine chancers trying to sell stuff, usually some financial service or crap junk from China. At least some do have an opt out* number to hit, and having checked this against charges, it seems to be legitimate and worked. Those opt-outs should be changed to opt-ins - it's very hard to opt-out when you've picked up the landline on an only slightly updated, 80 year old, rotary dial phone! IIRC the law says that it must be "opt-in" not "opt-out". UK law doesn't apply to other countries so they can still phone you. UK law should apply to companies that do business in the UK. Depends what you mean by 'do business'.* If they have a branch or office in the UK, I agree with you but if they are based abroad and phoning UK numbers, I don't see how that would work.* You can't get somebody extradited for an alleged crime that took place outside the jurisdiction.* By that logic, if someone used a clone of my credit card in Hong Kong, they could be brought to court and prosecuted in the UK.* How would that work?* Extraordinary rendition? How many nuisance calls have you received where the services or goods being offered are being advertised for a company that does not have a UK presence? I've not had one. They have all been for double glazing, new boilers, new kitchens, accident compensation, etc., where there is a clear UK presence that is simply using overseas call centres to get around the UK laws. Registering with the telephone preference service will knock out the majority of legit uk based cold callers. For the few that still ring, simply mentioning they are ringing a TPS listed number makes them vanish very quickly. Unfortunately, legit UK based callers seem to be the minority. The biggest number seem to be automated followed by calls with the character of the 'sub-continent'. |
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