Cold call with a threatening tone.
This morning my mobile was in a dead zone at work.
I had a voice message which roughly said the following, in a computer generated voice. "Legal action is being taken against me and my home is being watch call this number XYZ, don't ignore this, call XYZ" I deleted it, it didn't say my name or say a name of the caller. In hind site I should have saved it and reported it to the police as a threatning call. If you get this I would report it. |
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That's a pretty bad one! Report it anyway if you have the number.
I am not sure about anyone else but I've been getting a lot more spam calls recently. Usually one of those fake London area codes but when I pick up it's quiet. |
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I've had those sort of calls perporting to be HMRC and to call a particular number immediatly or court action would proceed.
HMRC will never phone you out of the blue like that so I could be sure it was some type of scam. Checking the number on a reverse lookup site came up as a scammer. |
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Yeah, that seems a lot more reasonable than "should have saved the number, then called the cops". Not only is that absurdly over dramatic but it is also entirely pointless and likely to waste resources. Assuming that the individual(s) responsible are even in the jurisdictional United Kingdom you don't have a criminal case to proceed with here.
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Really think that will go anywhere? Take it to a police station and see where you get. If the threat is that of lawful behavior (legal action in this case, ironically) then there is no criminal / penal resolution to the issue. He may be able to chase it up civilly but that is as far as it would or could go. |
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Yeah I wasn't suggesting that you literally take it anywhere. I meant it more in the sense of "you'll see how fast you were laughed out of court is you claim that is a threat". (I didn't want to sound rude though. :p)
And yes, if he does get the police involved those words would trigger a more enhanced and urgent complaint, and response....and when the police see the issue at hand that the complaint is made over the pending rebuke over wasting police time will likely be more enhanced, too. |
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Ofcom takes a dim view of these sorts of calls and will happily receive a report.
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Ofcom needs to bloody well DO SOMETHING!!!
I'm now getting calls from unfamiliar numbers every weekday. I have filled my blacklist (so my phone tells me) with numbers I don't recognise. So now if I don't recognise the number I simply put the phone on silent, wait till they give up and delete the call. I DO NOT ANSWER THEM. EVER. |
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I only answer calls from people in my contacts list . . all the rest get ignored.
If it is anyone genuinely needing to get in touch they simply have to send a text explaining who they are and the reason for calling. Even then I still have a choice of whether to talk to them or not :D |
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If I recognise the number then I take the call. Otherwise they get to talk to the answerphone if I haven't blacklisted the number.
IMO cold calling should be made a criminal offence on the company CEO that the call is being made for. A weeks jail for every call to run consecutively. :D That'll put a stop to it. |
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The moral of the story is don't give your phone no out to all and sundry. I pity anyone with the phone no 01234 567890, as its the number I give to anybody that doesn't really need it.
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Hey, thats my number !
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