Sudden rash of cold calling?

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Companies are looking at ways to block calls where the callerid and the actual originating termination are different. The difficulties include calls from companies that may send the DDI number to the extension but the termination is their switchboard.


But while illegal in the UK stopping war-diallers abroad is more difficult. That's when the scammers just dial "random numbers" and if they get a ring can record it as a valid number and if answered can route you to one of their operatives.