For those who have had the rogue

Will follow this with interest. Like many others I have had these people pestering me.

For those that suffer such rogues read on.

My present home phone has just failed and I bought the BT8500 Advance Call Blocker Phone. Absolutely brilliant no nuisance calls whatsoever and no lost calls that you need to receive. Cannot praise it too highly.

aww, Nellie2 and Castlecops,,, I remember that extremely useful site.

Pleased that something happening to sort/fix those behind the bogus support phone calls.

I was plagued by calls for a few successive early mornings after Xmas. A whistle from a cracker kept beside the phone got rid of them and gave me a perverse sense of satisfaction.

I don't think it will make much difference. I use a call blocker but still get them unless I bar all international and witheld numbers which I don't wish to do, just hang up
is the easiest solution.

I used to use an ear-piercing alarm in an attempt to wards off these pests until I found out there's a limiter on a landline's audio level. Shame. Bring back the good old days.

I use a call blocker but still get them

Impossible with the BT8500!

As bumpkin says "Just put the phone down" - how hard is that?

When you receive the same call from the same people who utterly refuse to accept that you're not interested and you put the phone down on them, you tell them to go away and you repeatedly tell them again and again that you know it's a scam and your patience is driven to the absolute limit by up to ten of these phone calls per week for a month or so. Yes, maybe I'm not as saintly as you, matey. God bless you.

It's navy pamby attitudes like that spider9 that have us where we are today. If their "job" involves fraud deceit and criminality then any type of response to the caller is fair game.

spider9

Perhaps taking a course on Anger Management might be a first step for you??

How about this person?

Punchy Pope