Amazon Calling

[allenlondon]

No, of course they’re not, but I’ve had at least six of these in the past week, and normally I leave them to go to answerphone but with Mrs A in hospital I HAVE to answer the landline, just in case.

A

[Baldric]

And?

[maggiebee]

Agree these calls are a real pain as are emails. So many scams on the go these days.

[allenlondon]

And you can (insert bit of Russian) boldric

[david small]

Can’t amazon trace these calls? Can’t BT block them? There seems to be a lack of effort from both providers to protect their customer base.

[ladybirder]

Can you not block these calls Allen?

[allenlondon]

I haven’t got callblocker on my landline, ladybirder.

As I said, under normal circumstances they just get the answerphone, and ring off immediately.

Mrs A is in the cardio ward, and every time it rings I dive for it...

A

[bednobs]

if it's number unknown or witheld, it's hard as the hospital number will also be witheld

[allenlondon]

David. They’re not from Amazon, of course.

Our landline is Virgin, and they’re unhelpful, to put it mildly.

A

[ladybirder]

Do you have a mobile? If you do ask the hospital to call you on that.

[allenlondon]

I might try ladybirder. Trouble is I know that in the vast bureaucracy of Northwick Park Hospital someone will inevitably pick up an old file and call my landline! And with Mrs A’s health so precarious, I couldn’t take the chance that the ringing phone wasn’t some harrassed ward sister trying to contact me.

I think my only option is to carry on answering, and cursing or laughing at their attempts to scam me.

A

[sherrardk]

Answer phone, not hospital? - hang up phone, it’s not arduous.

[bhg481]

sherrard - it's not arduous but it's a pain in the neck if you're doing something that can't be left and you're the only person available to answer what might be a vital call.

[sherrardk]

When himself was in ICU I just took the phone around the house when I was doing stuff, it’s not difficult.

[carolegif]

This is happening to us. We even had one at 6.45am yesterday morning! We have also had the Microsoft one (I tell them we only use Apple!), and one saying my bank account has had money taken out - it hasn’t! Today we had three calls where the line went dead!

[bobbinwales]

//Can’t amazon trace these calls? .....There seems to be a lack of effort from both providers to protect their customer base.//

Its random members of the public getting the calls whether there amazon customers or not. Cant see how amazon could trace them.

Not sure its up to BT either but someone has to report the spammers first

[allenlondon]

Oh yes I am a silly b aren’t I?

I’ll just let it ring in future. Mrs A is probably alright.

[bednobs]

sherr, we have an old fashioned rotary dial wired phone so it would be a pain for me

[EdmundD]

Amazon call me quite regularly now on my landline (I know its not them, of course). It started after I was speaking to someone on my mobile at Amazon about a problem I was having logging into my account. The person I was speaking to said she was having difficulty hearing what I was saying and I said try the landline......

[DarceyK123]

We get these too, trouble is they ring from a lot of different numbers so difficult to either recognise them (i have caller display) or block them.

I know it must be worrying every time the phone rings Allen but just pick it up, if not the hospital, put it straight down.

[allenlondon]

Mrs A’s favourite, Edmund, was to tell them she hadn’t got a computer. One actually called her a liar!