Silent calls

[talos]

A Truecall unit would be another approach.

             Yes Rik but at £89-90 a crack?  I think my system is cheaper and simpler to set up 

[Ray]

My suggestion and the system I use is to route all calls through an answering Mc , friends and regular callers expect and understand it and the unwanted calls are now starting to get less and less.  Anyone who may need "instant" communication have my mobile No.           Ok so it cost me to return some answer Mc calls, but I dont get that many,  I also have caller display on all phones, so I answer them personally if I recognise the number.

I use that system as well, plus my Panasonic Dect phone also has an option to block up to 30 numbers provided the number isn't withheld.

[Simon]

Answer machine screening and caller display here too.  I never answer 'withheld' calls. 

However I may answer one just to try out the smoke alarm trick. 

[Gary]

BT used to have a nuisance call service you could pay for, first month was free, that managed to block withheld calls so the system must be able to recognise withheld numbers at the very least, after a nuisance call you could phone up and block it straight away, not sure if that still exists. Truecall units from what I know don't work with Community alarm units so they are no good for me, saying that I don't get nuisance calls.

[Simon]

Neither do I.  Too busy making them. 

[.Griff.]

As I suggested the other day -

Anonymous Call Reject – lets you block incoming calls from withheld UK numbers

Anonymous Call Rejection lets you stop calls from people who have withheld their number. If a caller withholds their number so that you can't tell what number they called from, they won't be able to get through to you. They'll only get through if they reveal their number.

Takes two minutes to setup. Problem solved*.

* - Doesn't remove the stress already caused but should stop further calls from coming through.

[Rik]

Only problem is that, for example, my GP is a number withheld call.

[Simon]

Why would your GP be phoning Niall? 

[Rik]

Or even Griff. 

[Simon]

But it's Niall with the funny phone calls. 

[Rik]

 

[Niall]

It's my sister with the calls. No one phones me because I don't give my number out, even to mates for this very reason.

My GP retired incidentally and I have no idea who I'm with now. Oddly I always feel like I'd be wasting their time so I suffer and spend a fortune in boots instead

[Steve]

Only problem is that, for example, my GP is a number withheld call.

Or the hospital rings to cancel an appointment (obviously not to make one ) plus sick relatives in hospital have always made me weary of 'call reject'

[Technical Ben]

One day they will make an Andriod App for that no more nuisance calls answer machine. Darn. where is 20k in investment money and an Android/Iphone coder when you need one? (Oh, and a layer for the people suing you saying they thought of it first.)

[Silent Calls Victim]

I may be able to offer some help as a campaigner for Ofcom to use its powers to eradicate the nuisance of Silent Calls, as demanded by parliament, rather than tolerate and regulate them, as it its policy.

Telephone companies are able to place monitoring equipment on a line, which will enable the source of a call, selected by the recipient immediately after it has been made, to be recorded. Under the terms of data protection legislation, this information can only be released to an "appropriate" person.

It is the policy of the BT Nuisance Calls Bureau to offer this facility, for a limited period, to anyone who has been receiving nuisance calls and may wish for evidence to be collected to be used by the Police, or Ofcom etc. - to whom BT will release it.

The source of the call must be passed when calls are connected to 999. There are other ways of tracing calls that have been made, when the monitoring facility in not in place, but these would only be used in extremely serious cases.


Many marketing callers, who may terminate a call in silence if their equipment fails, avoid anonymous call reject by providing a genuine or spoof caller id. There are many genuine callers who stand ready to identify themselves if a call is answered but do not, or cannot, provide caller id.


My advice to Niall's sister would be to ask for the monitoring facility to be provided to collect evidence for a case of deliberate nuisance that is being investigated by the Police. The Police would not necessarily seek a prosecution in every case, but they would investigate and quite probably warn the perpetrator that they may face criminal prosecution.

[Rik]

Welcome to the forum.