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If you are with BT listen to BT's options, 150. There used to be one about nuisance calls They can intercept if the nuisance has reached a certain level. Make a note of past troubles - when they started etc.. The 1471 will probably reveal that a caller who left no number rang. You might have put an ad. in a paper with your nos. to sell something. They might call from a pay-phone leaving your phone off the hook will only use up the remainder of the money inserted for that one call.
I believe that some of the telemarketing systems work by calling numbers from their database until they get a human answering the phone, then they check for a free call centre operative - if one is free they are connected through with any details - if not they just drop the line.
It save the call centre staff from wasting time ringing numbers that don't answer.
Like Hugoboss says register with TPS then if anybody calls your number to direct sell you you can report them - although it can be tricky with the increasing number of foreign desks. I don't receive anything like the number of these sorts of call since I registered.
The newer ones that just play you a recorded message are harder though they don't tell you who they are but just try to get you to ring a number.
Filthy Marketing Weasels!
Many years ago, my girlfriend and I used to live in rented accommodation in Luton. We started receiving 'quiet' phone calls, but you could tell someone was on the other line. I never used to answer the phone (I wasn�t supposed to be living there!!), so suggested to my GF that she blow a whistle as loud as possible. But amazingly the idiot on the other end started blowing one back!
The calls started getting a bit more sinister with the caller making sexual noises.
Then I thought of an idea. We waited for the phone to ring one evening. My GF answered in the normal way, and repeatedly asked who it was. She then handed the phone to me, and I said in a loud authoritarian voice:
"This is Luton Police, call successfully traced".
Never heard another thing from them.
Hi G
Do you have an answer machine for your home phone? If so do just let all your calls come through the machine. Yes it will be a bit of a bind ringing people back but whoever is pestering you will soon get fed up talking to a machine! Sorry can't help with the mobile side though.
Do you work? I would start there to find out who is behind it.
CH
A friend of mine did this sort of work one summer in Canada. He said it was relentless. He'd just have said goodbye from one call (or got hung up on) when the next one would be connected instantly with the persons details popping up on the screen in front of him. Nasty job.