Don't keep bullshitting me on the phone or ..

[gilesgoat]

.. I am going to report you to the authorities

So there's this company that I am quite sure now to know who they are, someone from Swansea, that the CONTINUE TO CLAIM they *ARE* BT and "we scheduled an appointment with them since december last year".

They want to "discuss/offer" better tariffs/etc.

EVERY TIME THEY CALL they say "WE *ARE* BT" ..

So .. got to my wrists .. I called BT and told them the story .. they verified it, acutally they can see ( but of course they can't tell me preciselty who ) who's been calling me and they DEFINITELY told me "THEY ARE *NOT* BT" NOR you have/had any appointment with us.

They also explained me "what this company is probably trying to do" and why ...

But they are definitely NOT BT and they COMPLETELY LIE even when asked "are you really BT ??".

So there you go .. TRUST ABSOLUTELY NO ONE !! I cannot believe they blatantly lie SO much ..

And they are extremely insisting ...

[RiK]

Just block their number.

Job done. No fuss.

[PFVA]

I like when they call me saying they from XYZ (phone/Cable/Internet Provider) Company and then they ask "Who am i talking to?" Then i say "if you were from that company you would know my name, it's on the contract. Excuse me 'click'"

[Molloy]

I'm sure they catch a ton of old people with this bullshit. Still you'd think BT would be more proactive about hunting them down, unless the call center is in Bangalore and they can't get at them.

Reply All did a pretty fun podcast about this subject and even went to India to hunt down the people doing it.
https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all/1 ... -parts-1-2

[guythp]

Nuisance callers; My mum almost daily gets a call from 'virgin media' where someone tells her that he pc has a virus (the last computer she used required punch-cards and filled several rooms) or that her service will be disconnected if she fails to do whatever it is they ask her to do. Yet she still has a landline, still answers these calls (to be fair, she doesn't have caller ID) and STILL talks to the callers!

I'd suggest either, once the call has been established to be one of these calls, just leave the phone somewhere until the hang up, hang up on them mid-conversation, get rid of your landline or, as RiK said block them (and any other numbers that get through - it takes a while but works as I had endless ppi calls on my mobile a while back so methodically block the numbers one by one).

[RiK]

Also, I don't even have the ringer enabled on my land line any more...

[Junosix]

Reply All did a pretty fun podcast about this subject and even went to India to hunt down the people doing it.
https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all/1 ... -parts-1-2

Wow! Haha, that's great, really worth a listen.

[Molloy]

Reply All did a pretty fun podcast about this subject and even went to India to hunt down the people doing it.
https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all/1 ... -parts-1-2

Wow! Haha, that's great, really worth a listen.

They do quite a few investigations of internet scams that are really entertaining as well. It's one of my favorite podcasts.