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When I lived in Shetland I never got a single spam call, but since moving I get inundated. Mainly to do with boilers and green energy. It started when I joined NPower. I've now bought one of those BT 8500 Call blocker phones and it's great, although it's annoying the purchase price has dropped quite a bit since I bought it in June. You need caller ID for it to work properly and I'll get that when I switch from BT later this month. I've even had spam/sales calls off BT themselves, although they did stop when I impolitely told them to! I started reporting all the spam calls to Ofcom on their website. However, you have to give them your phone number and soon after I started to get lots of marketing spam phone calls as well. So it seems even Ofcom share your details with all and sundry. The worse culprits are a single energy company that use 40-50 different numbers and lots of different company names to call you, so they're difficult to block. They are known spammers and have previously been reported as "unsavoury" characters. They have allegedly been in court on a number of occasions (or so it's reported on the internet). They phone nearly every day and often on more than one occasion. They now realise they can't get through to me during the day and so have started calling in the evening and weekends, even Sundays. On one occasion it was a person and not just a recorded message; I tried to tell them to stop calling me and take me off their list, but as soon as I started talking the individual on the other end of the phone was so rude he simply talked over me. They have been calling me regularly for a year now. I've now set my phone to not even ring so I don't even hear the phone, everyone has to leave a message or get ignored. Auto callers can't leave messages because you have to press a key on the phone. Unfortunately it did mean I missed out on a cancelled hospital appointment though, because by the time I'd returned the call the cancelled appointment had been given to someone else. When my BT contract ends and I switch to another company in a few weeks I'll get caller ID and probably ask for a new phone number, Either way I'll be able to reset to phone to ring again and that'll allow me to answer numbers I want and block numbers I don't, so they can never phone me again. Unfortunately if I keep my present number the 'worse culprits' will just keep calling by setting up new phone numbers that I haven't yet blocked. All that just because I need a phone line and the internet and people constantly pester me and try to sell me things I don't want.

My computer was supposed to stop working last week because I would not let a microsoft tecnician update my licence. He seemed a little disapointed when I told him to ****** . The computer is still working fine. Just ignore them, band a crooks. .