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Just a warning really.....I had a call when in a meeting yesterday and then started calling it back later without checking it properly, but rang off when I heard a foreign ring tone. On closer inspection is was a call from Somalia of all places and Ive also had them now from Cuba and other far flung places.
The phone rings for a couple of secs and rings off. Googling it, it seems they want you to ring back and call a high cost phone line. Ive blocked every number that rings me but strangely Im getting messages on my voice mail now saying I'm on hold for the financial department blah blah. Wondering what the point of that is?
Anyways.....the moral of the story is that if you get called by a dodgy looking number, don't call it back.
Anyways…..the moral of the story is that if you get called by a dodgy looking number, don’t call it back.
I don’t call back unless I know the number.
Report it to Ofcom.
I don’t call back unless I know the number.
but I only want to talk about the forum update 🙁
but I only want to talk about the forum update
Exactly.
Anyways…..the moral of the story is that if you get called by a dodgy looking number, don’t call it back.
I’ve had these in the past, having heard something about calls like these two or three years ago I always do a google search of the number, because I was getting loads of spam calls. They seem to have dropped off now, and any number that looked iffy I blocked straight away. They nearly always came through on my mobile, the landline gets the replacement windows/doors/guttering and Microsoft virus issues.
Worth downloading the True Caller app, I use it on iPhone and it highlights spam callers..
Had a couple of missed calls from Australia recently!
I actually quite enjoyed the last spam call I got. Was sitting in a bar in Val d'Isere on my ski holiday, waiting for my mates to come off the slopes when my phone rang. I didn't recognise the number, but answered the call in case there was a problem with one of my mates.
This woman on the other end of the phone pretty much barked at me that her company had heard I'd recently been involved in a serious accident that wasn't my fault. "Are we talking about when I broke my leg four years ago?", said I. This really got her attention, until I had to let her down by explaining that I'd done that by spanking into a tree on my mountain bike. I then told her that the only other serious accident I'd recently been involved in had led to me suffering a fractured spine two years ago. I do believe she thought we were onto a winner there....until I explained that I'd been on my own, snowboarding, and had been trying a really lame trick when it happened. I had time, just before she hung up on me, to tell her that yes, I've had plenty of serious accidents, but not a one was anything other than my own stupid fault. She replied with the dial tone.
Made me smile!
@beagleboy, that's great and similar to what I do, if I can be bothered. When they call I tell them how grateful I am for their call, and how terrible my injuries are, spin them a nice yarn for a while, and then say it happened four years ago.
The limitation period for personal injury claims is three years, so I'd be out of time to bring any claim.
I usually ask them which accident they have details for as I am pretty accident prone and have had several car crashes in the last couple of years. This usually results in a transfer to their supervisor who then hangs up when I ask which accident they are calling about.
Mate of mine at work properly spins a yarn for a bit and when asked what happened, as they always do apparently, he tells them that he died.... at which point the call ends.
Has even had a 'manager' from one of these places phone him back and try to give him a b0ll0cking for wasting their time and upsetting the caller!