[ian@huth]

I recently put my mother on the TPS list as she was having a number of calls daily which were either silent when answered or stopped ringing before she got to the phone. Thankfully these calls have now stopped.

When I checked her phone bill there was one call for about £6. I found out that she had a habit of dialling 1471 when the ringing stopped before she got to the phone and then pressing 3 after hearing the number to call them back. One of the calls was possibly a 09xx number which relied on people doing just what my mother had done. She said that when she answered one call it was a woman talking and she could not get a word in so hung up after a few minutes. Probably a recorded message from a 09xx number.