Silent treatment

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2BIT replied

21 April 2011, 11:25
Originally posted by Clippy View Post

This last week, I've been getting constant calls (5+ a day) from someone calling from 0161 236 9538.

From the off, I suspected it was a cold caller so took to accepting the call but not speaking and after a minute or so they would hang up.

I suspect it is a computer waiting for my voice so that it can either put me through to an 'agent' or run off an automated spiel.

However, I think this has now led to the calls being made by a 'human' as I can hear rustling in the background - it's still taking them over a minute to hang up though.

At what point will these fkrs give up as this is now getting extremely annoying?

Do you think I should I engage them in conversation?

currently trying to find a decent android app to handle this, used to come to my home phone but now getting them to my mobile! arrgghhh!!!! normally withheld numbers I ignore but they've started using non-witheld numbers and also use humans instead of robots sometimes

and I did get a human recently - and it took me an inordinate amount of time to convince him that I had not applied for any credit recently so didn't need his services, for some reason he thought what he had written down about me was more true than what I was telling him - talk about unable to deviate from a script- he may as well have been a machine! but thinking he may be a pimp i took the call

just wanna blanket ban certain numbers (including perfect pizza who refuse to stop texting me) - have you got blacklist functionality on your mobile? or maybe contact your landline provider to see if they can block (depending on where your getting the calls to)
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Clippy replied

21 April 2011, 11:25
Don't beat yourself up, there's no shame in being the slowest!
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Spacecadet replied

21 April 2011, 11:19
http://whocallsme.com/Phone-Number.aspx/01612369538
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thunderlizard replied

21 April 2011, 11:18
I'm surprised it's taken somebody a whole 14 minutes
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Clippy started a topic Silent treatment

21 April 2011, 11:04
Silent treatment

This last week, I've been getting constant calls (5+ a day) from someone calling from 0161 236 9538.

From the off, I suspected it was a cold caller so took to accepting the call but not speaking and after a minute or so they would hang up.

I suspect it is a computer waiting for my voice so that it can either put me through to an 'agent' or run off an automated spiel.

However, I think this has now led to the calls being made by a 'human' as I can hear rustling in the background - it's still taking them over a minute to hang up though.

At what point will these fkrs give up as this is now getting extremely annoying?

Do you think I should I engage them in conversation?
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