@Jdossett85 wrote:
Hi I'm constantly getting calls proclaiming to be Microsoft or virgin media or BT (none of these are true) as soon as you say not interested thank you they become abusive. My wife who is disabled was trolled so badly last week via the phone we had to unplug it, she's disabled I don't need it.
Unfortunately, going ex-directory will do nothing whatsoever to stop the types of calls which you have described. Nor will registering with organisations such as TPS. These calls are produced via an automated process, dialling groups of numbers sequentially. The calls are generated by telephone scammers who use a variety of means to try to steal money from you.
The only way to mitigate against these calls, whilst still retaining some kind of normal use of your phone line, is to use a call screening device such as trueCall or one of the BT phone ranges which has trueCall features built in.
In the meantime, the best advice is to let any unknown caller ID numbers go to answering machine.