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BT call protect and BT scam calls not being blocked from 01303 891467

Despite my efforts to repeatedly block these BT scam calls, they are still getting through. Same time every day twice or more a day. Displayed number is always the same 01303 891467

Sort it out BT

 
 
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@jossmerwrote:

Despite my efforts to repeatedly block these BT scam calls, they are still getting through. Same time every day twice or more a day. Displayed number is always the same 01303 891467

Sort it out BT - How ?

 
 

 

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Get Fred Dinenage in.

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I would not be asking the question if I knew how, now would I.

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Hi Sorry for the inconvenience about the issue about unblocking the number through BT Call Protect. If I am understanding the issue correctly then there can be two reasons =

1. It is a Virtual Number which can not be blocked with any application. A Virtual number is a telephone number without a directly associated telephone line.

2. It can be a generated number created with certain applications - eg - Magic Jack.

These numbers are not possible to block.

 

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Thanks for the explainer parthabus.
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@parthabuswrote:

Hi Sorry for the inconvenience about the issue about unblocking the number through BT Call Protect. If I am understanding the issue correctly then there can be two reasons =

1. It is a Virtual Number which can not be blocked with any application. A Virtual number is a telephone number without a directly associated telephone line.

2. It can be a generated number created with certain applications - eg - Magic Jack.

These numbers are not possible to block.

 


Hi.

What you have said is simply not true about blocking. VoIP numbers are effectively the same as any other number when they reach the recipient who can then block it themselves.

Your explanation about virtual numbers is correct, e.g. things like 0845 or 0870 calls, but these too can be blocked using blocking systems.

Call Protect should be able to block all of these calls if they are the same number.

The number range 01303 89 is allocated to BT and in a valid range - the called from number is almost certainly done by a VoIP system by the scammers, but there is nothing to stop it being blocked.

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@jossmerwrote:
Thanks for the explainer parthabus.

Is your connection a fibre only line by any chance?

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It is FTTC Andy. Then copper wire from cab to home 300 metres

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@jossmerwrote:

It is FTTC Andy. Then copper wire from cab to home 300 metres


How are you using BT Call Protect?

 

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