Automated scam message?

[pompey1898]

Hi @Raven ,

These numbers are randomly spoofed using VIOP, so it would not have been a local call.

You did the correct thing in hanging up.

[Raven]

Thanks for putting my mind at rest, but it is worrying when its only a couple of digits on the last two near my own..it makes me wonder if somebody is complaining about my number be used as a fake call.

[Ribblelancs]

By coincidence, I’ve had a “local” caller coming through at least 4 times in the past few days. Number seemed to be genuine.....thought it was the Surgery, but two digits were transposed, and anyway that number is now extinct. The call was the usual “your connection is being terminated”.

The polite way to deal with such callers is to add to your blacklisted numbers.

If you keep using the BT Report a Scam Call utility, then they are blocked, - eventually - ,and your phone will not even ring. So it’s good practice to check on 1572 periodically.

Callers will find a new number to use, but the blocking technology improves over time.

[TALON1973]

I just block / put phone down. Only complete fall for that **bleep**.

[Andy_N]

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@Ribblelancswrote:

If you keep using the BT Report a Scam Call utility, then they are blocked, - eventually - ,and your phone will not even ring.

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Do you have any evidence to support that?

I would suggest that they are not all blocked using the scam reporting system. A lot of the numbers are in unused or protected ranges - which may be blocked, however the ALL ranges are controlled by OFCOM. Many "calls" are in ranges that are allocated to all sorts of companies - BT can't block them by default as they will be unable to determine their actual use. Some spoofed calls are valid numbers, which will never be blocked.

Even calls within valid ranges that are unallocated (if rung back "not recognised" is returned), they can't be blocked as they may well be allocated in the future.

With any "system" blocking method, care needs to be taken not to block innocent numbers

[Ribblelancs]

Yes, I think I do.

Try a CPR call blocker.

It blocks anything, willy nilly.

You will not have many friends left though.

There’s always the brute force method. Must be a fortune there for an enterprising Taxidermist, who is willing to accept forwarded calls,.....at a price!

[Raven]

Oh yeah, I have a cpr call blocker with it's nice red button but I didn't want to block what looked like an innocent number until I went through my little pnone book...now I have I can safely block it. Thanks everyone.