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They want to talk to him, they can set it up.

There you go, Sharron.

Make an appointment and have the seance set up ...

'Hello, can I speak to Mr Green, please?'

'Only if you have a ouji board.'

I only wish my mother (who has call display) would answer some of those Microsoft calls!

She recently inherited a Mac laptop from my sister, so she could occupy them for a while hunting for all the bad files that aren't there ...

I also have a home security company that calls from time to time. Well, they identify them as XYZ company, but I asked XYZ company (since the calls are illegal) and they said not them. Every time, they ask for the woman who had my number 3 years ago. Every time, I tell that to the woman who calls - same woman every time.

Next time, I will make an appointment .........

"Microsoft" called us twice, about 3 months apart

Once at 9 pm, and once at 5:30 am

They both got blasted, and told that I was calling the police as cold calls were illegal at those times.

They both hung up.

My partners aunt Jane got a phone call from Microsoft at work telling her that her home computer had a fault but if she went to it now he could fix it for her. Jane said that she was at work not home. He responded by saying " You are at work not home? Where is it you work?" Janes response was Hewlett Packard. Strangely Janes had no more calls at work.

omg Sharron I could not stop laughing. xx

:-D :-D

A lovely, friendly chap rung me yesterday. All chummy, he asked me how I was so I told him.

I told him alright, all about my arthritis, constipation, prolapse, piles, ingrowing toe-nail, wind, halitosis.

He rang off.

Got a call at 7am this morning

"This is Kathy from the technical dept of.." I crossly cut off !

later did 1471 and got this number

0016013641058

Tried it "this number is not taking calls at the moment" -American accent

First time I have had a call so early in the morning !! :-|

Joonie ............

you do have weird cats!!!

Good that you're busy though, that'll keep the pennies flowing in so you can pay for the cat's errrrrrrrr needs :-)

Yep ............... you'd think we all lived in mansions here the way house prices have gone up into the stratosphere! :-(

The house we live in is worth exactly what we paid for it in 1972, trouble is the land it is built on is worth much much much more!

We're off on our travels again in 2 weeks, by train of course :-D

had a call from microsoft a while back i said hold on a minute while i get my daughter she knows everything about computers as she works for the police forensic science department, the phone went quite straight away :-)

I don't answer my landline anymore. Anyone of any importance has my mobile. But if my grandson comes round his eyes light up if the phones rings. I have to leave the room as he winds up who ever it. x

Your fault for living in such a mansion, Sylvia! :-D

Yup, same with me. Irritate me (like calling me 'Mrs' anything) and you can be sure that if I do want services, or need somewhere to donate my money, or whatever, I won't come calling on you.

(Yes, extreeemely busy. Summer ended, old clients came out of the woodwork ... luckily, since the six billion dollar bionic cat has just had another weekend at the spa for her high colonic ... otherwise known as having the vet anaesthetise her and dig impacted poop out of her deformed bottom ... my cat's poop pays the vet's mortgage, I think.)

Hi Ya, Joonie

I thought you must have been busy as I hadn't seen you posting for some time.

Microsoft seems to have bye-byes for me, after I told about 4 of them that it was a scam!

We are pestered by realtors here, both by phone and at the door ................. I tell them all that I keep a list of all who contact me and they will not be contacted if and when we ever want to sell..

Amazing how fast they hang up or turn tail. :-D

One at the door last week did ask me why I kept such a list ........ "because I hate to be bothered". He turned tail at that

Um, whatever, I guess.

I have a cheapo mobile phone that I take with me on intercity travel. Otherwise, I am not out wandering around, I'm working at my desk at the PC with the giant monitor, or somewhere in the vicinity ...

I'm just a tad elderly for devices, I'm afraid. And since eye surgery gone wrong left me non-driving with a non-driving partner, I don't tend to just nip out to the shops when the mood strikes.

If you had a point, be sure to let me know what it was!

You freelance and don't have a mobile ?
Be serious.

I'm afraid I could not 'whitelist'. My telephone (I don't use a mobile) is also for business, and I have to have it accessible to any unknown caller who might call to offer me work. :-)

Even if that were not the case, I really just would not want to limit calls to those I have whitelisted. What a chore to identify all the numbers one's clinic or vet or hardware store might be calling from!

Probably my service provider offers a blacklisting option ... the numbers being called from change so often (and are spoofed most of the time), but I should look into it.

These days, all I really do is hang up when the spiel starts, without engaging. The duct cleaners had just got up my nose enough that I decided to waste 10 minutes on them. And, knock on wood, it seems to have worked.

http://home.bt.com/news/bt-life/bt-offers-breakthrough-service-to-divert-huge-numbers-of-nuisance-calls-11364039280071

In our home landline we use a call blocker a small box that hooks up to the phone socket. It gives a choice of blacklisting numbers or whitelisting which only lets numbers on the list through. We use white listing.

Most of our calls in/out come via mobile though and there are plenty of apps which will keep cold callers frozen out.

These days being plagued by cold callers is only possible if you arr unwilling to do something active about it. Maybe being nasty to the cold caller brightens a dull day. Who knows.

When The so called Microsoft ring me
I ask why my called ID identifies a call from Nigeria
and they hang up
or when they say they are James brown /smith ect
I say oh no your not I recognize your voice your called Moogibar
and you ring here every week
and I don't even have a computer
and they hang up :-D :-D