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Beware nuisance call aka psychopath/low-life scum jokers

Hope

Last night the whole family was woken by a phone-call at 2.30am. The same caller phoned this morning, and there was an automated 'ha, ha' sound. My dad hung up and phoned BT, who have blocked nuisance callers for the next year.

If you get a nuisance call, do not answer it. Phone BT, who can sort it for you.

The nuisance callers are low-life scum, who are psychopathic by nature, and enjoy calling people at all hours, even at night. I am now extremely tired, and very angry. But at least they cannot call us back.

  • Hi - something you could well do without.  If it came through on your landline, then unplug it at the wall.  

  • Well I hope this is the end of it. Me and no sleep do not go well together: I can't think straight, everything is noisier, brighter, more intense, and I blow my fuse more easily. It saddens me that such callous people exist on this earth.

  • The problem is that not all such calls can be blocked. A common recurring night call arises because power dialling marketing services overseas aren't switched off overnight. So even though they aren't there to pester us about loft insulation grants, their phone system is still chuntering out random calls. 

    Unfortunately our government doesn't seem able to impose sanctions on the countries hosting these call centres, or the UK companies using them.

    Also the ha ha may not be automated, more likely to be a real nuisance caller within the UK.