Someone has just phoned me…

MayBee70

eazybee

Check the number on the internet, which will tell you whether it is a genuine number or one that is used for scams.

I don’t want to dial 1471 as those scam calls tell you to dial 1 and then charge you a fortune. I always dial my mobile number after I’ve had a scam call. I’m just so angry at the cheek of it!

Dialling 1471 costs nothing to find out the number.

Obviously you wouldn't phone back, just search the number online and you can find out if it's a scammer.

Astitchintime and ferry 😁
Must remember those!

And GrannyGravy 😁

As per pp, if it was the last call you can 1471 and find out the number. It doesn't cost anything and won't connect you to anyone. You can then put the number in google and see who it is.

My guess is you're on a giant list of people over 60 and eventually they will find someone with health problems. People's details are easy to harvest these days and are used for marketing purposes.

Callistemon21

MayBee70

eazybee

Check the number on the internet, which will tell you whether it is a genuine number or one that is used for scams.

I don’t want to dial 1471 as those scam calls tell you to dial 1 and then charge you a fortune. I always dial my mobile number after I’ve had a scam call. I’m just so angry at the cheek of it!

Dialling 1471 costs nothing to find out the number.

Obviously you wouldn't phone back, just search the number online and you can find out if it's a scammer.

Doesn’t the ‘1’ mean you’ve dialled ‘1’ though and might cost a lot of money? At least I’ll be prepared if I get the same call again. It just took me totally by surprise, especially as I was expecting a call from someone else.

www.bt.com/help/landline/all-about-bt-1471#:~:text=It's%20free%20to%20use%201471,the%20cost%20of%20the%20call.

It might have been a genuine business 'cold call'. The 'free' pendant might have been an offer but then you are charged a weekly fee to have the system set up and monitored. My mother was charged £50 to replace her lost pendant. We suspect it went out in the newspaper recycling.

I had a similar call last week - presumably a new company set up. He asked if I knew what a pendant was and I said I was well aware what one was and if I thought I needed one I was perfectly capable of doing my own research and organising it for myself!

I had a phone call very similar saying he was a health worker and again was trying to sell me something I just very firmly told him to push off!

It’s same type of cold calling as ones saying you’ve had an accident when you haven’t. They hope to strike lucky. Just ignore them.

jocork

I had a similar call last week - presumably a new company set up. He asked if I knew what a pendant was and I said I was well aware what one was and if I thought I needed one I was perfectly capable of doing my own research and organising it for myself!

I'd have answered that yes, I knew what a pendant was, and I had a pendant light hanging in the centre of each of my rooms.

MayBee70

eazybee

Check the number on the internet, which will tell you whether it is a genuine number or one that is used for scams.

I don’t want to dial 1471 as those scam calls tell you to dial 1 and then charge you a fortune. I always dial my mobile number after I’ve had a scam call. I’m just so angry at the cheek of it!

Dialling 1 cannot cost you a fortune. Scammers use automatic diallers, so if you press 1 ( or any number really) when prompted, all it does is tell the automatic dialler that it’s a live number with a real person at the other end, so it may call again. That is bad enough, but safest just to ignore any number you don’t recognise. Same goes for having a bit of sport with the caller ( and I am guilty of this), it just keeps your number in the dialler.

Ooh I love scam callers. I let one guy talk to me about conservatories. He spent ages talking me through the process, the cost etc. I said was very interested… oh by the way (I said) I’m assuming that the fact that I live on the 19th floor makes no difference….
Beeeeeeeeep.

If you put the number into who-called.co.uk/ you can see whether others have been called by the same people. It's a very useful tool, both for checking calls that you receive and for warning others... 🙂

For heaven’s sake, just put the phone down if you don’t want to speak to them.

Greciangirl

For heaven’s sake, just put the phone down if you don’t want to speak to them.

Apologies for being so pathetic but I just wanted to know if anyone else had had a call from the same people ( that’s me told…).

If I'm feeling a little naughty, I often let them introduce themselves, I engage a little with a "right, I see" or similar, then I interrupt them and say "hang on just a second, there's someone at the door". I than put the phone down and go back to it about 5 minutes later. Invariably they've given up on me by then.

LisaP I know one guy who did live in a flat but was inundated with callers wanting to sell him a conservatory not matter how many times he told them. In the end he arranged for them to come round which they did. Afterwards he was not troubled again.

We never used to answer calls on the landline where we didn’t know the number but it has become more difficult now we are frequently awaiting hospital and GP calls as they often use mobile numbers.

Yes I had one last week. I explained that I had just come home from work and was about to go out for a late afternoon jog.
I politely declined the offer!!

As someone else said, I use the website 'who called me.co.uk' to check unknown numbers - including local ones - before answering,

Vintagegirl

It might have been a genuine business 'cold call'. The 'free' pendant might have been an offer but then you are charged a weekly fee to have the system set up and monitored. My mother was charged £50 to replace her lost pendant. We suspect it went out in the newspaper recycling.

I-was just about to say much the same - I have one and am charged a quarterly fee, which has just gone up, for monitoring, and checkup phone calls, etc. The firm running this is vetted ,approved by our local council, and I was referred leaving hospital. It is also connected to the fire dept -which is very annoying as 4 burly firemen often turn up when I’ve burnt the toast!
I am lucky cos my sons take it in turn to pay the fee for me!

I got one of those calls. It was disconnected when I asked for his company details. Check the number on. ''Who called me" if you type the number in it will tell you if there are any issues with that particular number.

LisaP

Ooh I love scam callers. I let one guy talk to me about conservatories. He spent ages talking me through the process, the cost etc. I said was very interested… oh by the way (I said) I’m assuming that the fact that I live on the 19th floor makes no difference….
Beeeeeeeeep.

What you are describing is cold calling, not a scamcall. There's a big difference.

midgey

If you copy the the number into a search engine that may well help you find out if it’s a scam. I never phone 1471, that brings a cost.

Simply dialling 1471 to get the number of the last call received is completely free and there is only a charge if you use the 'dial back' option!