Millions of scam calls from abroad to be blocked under new crackdown

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1. “Phone companies will now have to identify and block calls from abroad which falsely display a UK telephone number as a “presentation number” under strengthened guidance from Ofcom.”

   About bloody time. How about preventing the use of presentation numbers entirely.

2. I’ve found a simple, free way to reduce the number of nuisance calls I receive to zero.

   I don’t own a landline phone.

3. I get calls from abroad displaying a London number, glad it is finally being addressed

4. Will this apply to offshored call centres? Since they will be coming from abroad.

5. Too little, too late. This is literally the reason I got rid of my landline. I went from ‘there’s no harm having it plugged in even if I don’t use it’ to ripping it out of the wall and hoofing it into the bin within a week of starting to work from home. 

6. Thank god for this, I cant answer any unknown numbers now because I get so many of these spam calls

7. Indian scam centers will be in shambles for a weekend and then they’ll find a work around no doubt

8. and hopefully in the UK at some point. There are numbers, and consecutive numbers, that come up frequently and based in Manchester and Edinburgh.

9. Surely the easiest fix for this is to just prohibit the ‘sale’ of customers’ contact info.

10. Thank god. There is only so many times I can answer a call which starts with “dear sir this is 02, I regret to inform you that your HMRC number has been stolen and until the monies are paid for your new phone we will be calling the police to your location” with a straight face

11. Will this put an end to all of the Indian men calling me from London numbers. 

12. It’ll be interesting to see how they implement this. Spoofing numbers with VOIP is ridiculously easy