I used to be with TT. However, after the TT hacking and when the scamming phone calls took off, I began getting them like "There is a problem with your router...." When one chap phoned and said I had a problem, I told him I knew he was a scammer and I didn't have a problem. He replied "You have now".
A month or so later I got a letter from TT "We're sorry you want to leave us......" In the end, I did leave TT.
I've had no end of calls from the scammers and I keep blocking their numbers. Then the hacked list gets sold on and another bunch start so I block them and so it goes on.
This morning I got another but this one ran like "Hello, I'm calling from your internet service provider, talk-talk".
Just to see what he came up with, I said "I'm not with talk-talk."
"Who is your sevice provider?"
"I'm not telling you."
He asked twice more and again I told him "I'm not telling you".
Then he asked for me by name so I said I was the Police and that we're trying to locate the scammers who're either trying to get financial details or drop a virus on computers.
It didn't put him off, he kept trying to insist I was with TT. I can't remember the next bit but after that he said he would have to disconnect me from the internet. I said "Go on then". He tried again and I told him "Go on then". He said if he disconnected me I wouldn't be able to connect with any other service provider. Again, I told him, "Go on then". He then kept asking me for my name, I told hin to get lost.
It seems that when one bunch of scammers has exhausted the supply of victims, another lot seem to take over. Is there nothing anyone can do to put an end to the nuisance apart from what I do, block the number?
It's life Jim, but not as WE know it.
Live long and prosper.
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). However, my friend had an Amazon-related email into his Yahoo address and I had 2-3 "health" emails into my Tiscali address with "helpful" links in them.
