General Chat

When they ask for a named person you could try "(S)he is ploughing the 10acre field but if you hold on for 20 minutes I can get him/her to the phone"

When we get the call from someone who reckons they are from Microsoft OH waits for them to say put on the computer so he says just a minute then puts the phone down for a couple of minutes then asks since when have Microsoft been looking after Apple computers and they put the phone down on him having wasted several minutes on him :-D

They often mispronounce my surname so I truthfully say there's no one of that name in this house.

I use a nickname - which isn't even a 'proper' name - for my first name on Facebook,
I love it when they ask for Mr or Mrs G (then my surname),
I just ask if Facebook have been selling phone numbers again!

I actually have a letter addressed to G (Surname), from a firm offering to claim back PPI - at a price! I claimed mine back years ago - and paid no-one.
I'm sorely tempted to let them waste their time :-D

Talk Talk have issued a number to dial immediately after you have received an unwanted call..........14258. This, apparently, should block them from calling you again. Don't know if this just applies to Talk Talk customers though, but maybe worth a try??

If you are on BT you need to sign up to the free call protect then you can dial 1572 immediately after a cold call,
Unfirtunately some of these dodgy companies manage to use random numbers to call from.
I,m fed up with the auto call About the urgent survey about whether we are on benefits. :-P

The most frequent ones I get are pre-recorded about PPI, and 'Your double glazing is out of date', mainly on 'witheld'.
I get the occasional 'international' number, but there's no-one at the other end, so the phone sits on the table until it beeps - at least that's 4 minutes they couldn't bother anyone else!! :-D