FE ok i see your point! BUT if we sit back & do nothing this Spam will still keep going when my son is a adult! it also makes people angry & like ourselves if the phone rings and its "No number shown" we have ignored it! but so is my sisters number it also comes up as no number and so does a few of our contacts! so we was missing calls until we realized this!

I dont think its BT's fault although they should have some way of blocking these pest numbers!

As regards to the goverments we should at at least try to find a way in which this can be stopped & if its not our faults its either the goverments or the Service providers... that are allowing these idiots to hassle us all Remember i am on YOUR side...

I signed up to the TPS many years ago, and have had no cold calls since. It's true that it doesn't filter out foreign calls, but I get maybe one of these every six months, and as soon as I hear the American-accented 'Congratulations', I hang up.

Hardly a problem...

oresome

"...you're probably out of the house earning a living most days"

Yes,I am, but my wife is often at home when she's not working, and I'm there in the evenings. I think we would know if large numbers of calls were made to our home in our absence, and they're not. We have a voicemail facility, and all inbound calls are logged, even those where the number is withheld.

We do get cold calls, but not that many. Are you saying that most of the calls come during the day? That's not what I've heard; I've been told that most of them are made in the early evening, when people are more likely to be at home.

FE

"Are you saying that most of the calls come during the day?"

Yes, most of our nuisance telephone calls are during the day and the majority do not register on the answering machine as the caller hangs up when the message kicks in.

Physical callers often try during the day and then call back on those that are out in the early evening as you would expect.

Others roam the streets in vans trying to spot either property looking distressed, gullible people or ideally both.

For a refreshing change, I'm sometimes confronted with a deeply philosophical question when answering the door. I may not have an answer to the question posed, but the caller can always find a passage in the bible which provides one.

The latest wheeze seems to be setting up a direct debit for which ever charity happens to call...........no money needed now, we'll take it at the end of the month and the next month and the next. One was rather taken aback when I said I thought 36 pence per day for some charity I'd never heard of WAS an amount I would miss, equating as it does to over £130 per year and requiring me to set aside the income from £4,500 at 3% interest rate to pay for it.