@spiderrog wrote:
Thank you Kath, the Action Fraud site looks to be very complicated and I imagine the starting point for any report is to state the number the call was from. Usually the numver is not displayed or it is a random, often local, number shows on the display and is no help at all if the intent is track these people down.
You say that I should register on the TPS system, I have done that some years ago so not being certain that my number is still on their list I tried to re-register only to be advised that my number is already registerd, so the effectivemenss of the TPS servive is highly questionable in my view..
TPS won't stop any scam calls as it is simply a 'do not call' database for legitimate companies to use. It will have no affect at all against criminal scam callers. It's only function is to reduce marketing calls from legitimate companies.
Similarly Action Fraud may be useful for generic anti-scam advice or to make a report if an individual has been a victim of a fraud crime. There would be no benefit to the individual in reporting each call in an unrelenting wave of automated scam calls. It would just be a time consuming waste of effort on the part of the customer, unfortunately.
VM's regularly mentions these two organisations in replies on here in the absence of having an actual solutions to the problem of automated scam callers. It gives the appearance of some kind of action a customer can take but has minimal (no) benefit in reality.
The only way to stop the automated scam callers, unfortunately, is for the customer to invest in some equipment to screen out the scam calls and prevent them ringing the home phone.
