Off Topic Bill Nicholson Arms

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Should be illegal, anyway.

 

Just ban them for selling in the UK for it
(as a German auto maker they are already sh*tting themselves
should the UK ever decide to go WTO rules with the EU) .

 

The worst thing is BMW announced similar a month or two ago, so Mercedes had the chance of saying they wouldn't lock the top performance behind a paywall and steal a march on their most direct competitor

Instead they fell in lockstep with them, which means I now have to work out which is EA and which is Activision

 

This afternoon I have received 17 calls all from different numbers ,robo calls,after the first 2 I have let them ring out and then blocked and reported , I can't turn the phone off as I need to be on call, any ideas what I can do ?
Registered with TPS but I'm told it can take days before it comes into effect

 

I take it my usual method is answer it, launch a string of invective down the line and hang up isn't a viable option...?

 

17 is a huge amount, far too many IMHO to be statistically random.
My suspicion is that it is the same source, who I doubt are
are TPS-conformant entities anyway. If they are are generating
random dest numbers, your best hope is their systems mark
you as a "dead number" after so many attempted calls.

There are cell phone number blocker apps, but I do not
know what they do with the telephony interface (can they
suppress the "ring" outputs while a blocked source is
calling etc) .

 

I have had 5 scam emails today. Purporting to be from UPS and Tesco so watch out.

 

I tends to get UPS ones too, so this is obviously where scammers are baiting people

 

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It finally ended at 31 calls , each one a different number and I blocked and reported each number , I briefly listened to the first message before hanging up and can't remember what the call was about .
I treated it as a challenge but on a serious note this could have been a problem to someone in a vulnerable condition , spoke to my mobile provider whose only answer was to turn the device off

 

Sadly, by answering you have explicitly indicated
that the called number is "live" . That means their
system will potentially put your number on a list,
and you will get calls from them in the future
(the umpteen different numbers is probably an
attempt to bypass any dest blocker function) .

If you are inclined / able to do so, give me the list
of numbers, and I will do some cursory analysis
on them.

FYI, in tech terms the solution to this is quite
trivial (someone such as me would have a working
sys done in a couple of days) . The problem is
that it would require govt regulation to install
such systems into telephony networks (the
operators will always "cry foul" on CAPEX/OPEX) .

 

Thanks for the help RDBD, I only had a few left on my phone as I was deleting after I blocked and reported them , here are some of those not deleted
07540 819601 , 07540 737793 , 07540 191587 , 07540 836106 , 07540710683 , 07540 894362
07855 651339 , 07855 628594 , 07855 688084 , 07855 632011 , 07855 663815 , 07855 694555
The calls started on the 07855 numbers then after 12 calls moved on to the 07540 numbers

 

I assume all of the incoming calls were cell network numbers
(I was expecting "land line" numbers but there you go) .

I will do an MNO check on those numbers (at least to see
if the blocks are all registered on the same network) .

For any that you answered, were they machine / human
pre-recorded, or an actual person ??

 

All cell and machine speech on the only one I answered

 

It seems that one block of numbers are registered to one MNO,
and the other block to another. I assume those numbers are
on "prepaid" SIMs.

Perhaps UK law needs to be that mass marketing stuff
needs to show a CLI that is a UK "land line" to which if
called must be answerable by a person.

Not too educated on modern telephony protocols, but I will
see whether "CNAM" is supported on current cell networks.

 

Ouch, that had to hurt

 

Man on!

 

What's more concerning is that there don't appear to be any stewards or security within a country mile of him. Swap corner flag for knife and that goalkeeper would be leaving the stadium in an ambulance, if not a body bag. Shocking.

 

They do have the ambulance right in front of him, to be fair.

 

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