I do answer calls on the landline, mainly because I am terrible at memorising phone numbers so it could be from someone I know well. If it's in any way dodgy, I just hang up, be it a recorded message or a person on the other end.
Today, this wasn't a scam, but they had a bloody cheek. Went to a garden centre, it's a chain, but we don't often go to this particular one.
Had a coffee and cake, and yes it was table service, though I had to clean my own table...which is my pet hate. Ordered two coffees and two cakes, cake was almost stale and very synthetic tasting, bill was £17.60, which I thought was pretty steep. So I questioned it....they had only added bloody service charge, cheeky buggers, we will give that place a miss in future.
Wasn't Bents was it? Went there recently and some bit of a kid was making up our sarnies. I asked him why he was putting 1 cm of filling on a 12 quid butty. The supervisor then came over and backed me up and told him to put plenty of filling in when people are paying so much.
No, it was a Newbank.
We usually go to the ones in Bury and Uppermill, both cafes are good, and don't try to rip people off.
Oh no wonder, they have got too big imo. Address ?
Why?
Because i know a couple of the second generation of the family that own it. So I need names, addresses to make sure there’s a bollocking
Syl said
Nov 26 12:23 PM, 2024
Vam wrote:
@Syl…I was suggesting that it can be risky answering unidentified numbers on a mobile. I’ve read and heard that, even just picking up can be a problem, because it can still give the more sophisticated scammers with serious hacking skills access to the entire contents of a cellphone.
Answering on a landline should be pretty safe of course.
I don't worry about that, because I think I am one of the very few people left in the modern world that doesn't own a mobile phone....and I intend to keep it that way for as long as possible.
Anonymous said
Nov 26 2:42 PM, 2024
Syl wrote:
Vam wrote:
@Syl…I was suggesting that it can be risky answering unidentified numbers on a mobile. I’ve read and heard that, even just picking up can be a problem, because it can still give the more sophisticated scammers with serious hacking skills access to the entire contents of a cellphone.
Answering on a landline should be pretty safe of course.
I don't worry about that, because I think I am one of the very few people left in the modern world that doesn't own a mobile phone....and I intend to keep it that way for as long as possible.
That makes two of us Syl. Had one a few years ago and never felt I had any peace so I eventually binned it. I've never understood the curiousity of what someone is eating at a cafe and why my whereabouts 24/7 are of interest to anyone but myself. Perhaps I just have nosey friends.
The number of organisations that have sounded surprised to learn I haven't got one...you'd think I'd confessed to battering someone with the number of gasps I've received. Yeah, they can be handy at times in an emergency but I'm sticking it out and won't be brow-beaten into getting another one.
Anonymous said
Nov 26 3:08 PM, 2024
Magica wrote:
Vam wrote:
@Syl…I was suggesting that it can be risky answering unidentified numbers on a mobile. I’ve read and heard that, even just picking up can be a problem, because it can still give the more sophisticated scammers with serious hacking skills access to the entire contents of a cellphone.
Answering on a landline should be pretty safe of course.
I never answer them. Also my phone warns of scammers so I'm pretty safe.
Good! Mine generally does that too, but some slimy scammers still somehow manage to try their luck
Anonymous said
Nov 26 3:12 PM, 2024
Syl wrote:
Vam wrote:
@Syl…I was suggesting that it can be risky answering unidentified numbers on a mobile. I’ve read and heard that, even just picking up can be a problem, because it can still give the more sophisticated scammers with serious hacking skills access to the entire contents of a cellphone.
Answering on a landline should be pretty safe of course.
I don't worry about that, because I think I am one of the very few people left in the modern world that doesn't own a mobile phone....and I intend to keep it that way for as long as possible.
Good on you I‘m sometimes tempted to bin mine forevermore!
Syl said
Nov 26 5:40 PM, 2024
Anonymous wrote:
Syl wrote:
Vam wrote:
@Syl…I was suggesting that it can be risky answering unidentified numbers on a mobile. I’ve read and heard that, even just picking up can be a problem, because it can still give the more sophisticated scammers with serious hacking skills access to the entire contents of a cellphone.
Answering on a landline should be pretty safe of course.
I don't worry about that, because I think I am one of the very few people left in the modern world that doesn't own a mobile phone....and I intend to keep it that way for as long as possible.
That makes two of us Syl. Had one a few years ago and never felt I had any peace so I eventually binned it. I've never understood the curiousity of what someone is eating at a cafe and why my whereabouts 24/7 are of interest to anyone but myself. Perhaps I just have nosey friends.
The number of organisations that have sounded surprised to learn I haven't got one...you'd think I'd confessed to battering someone with the number of gasps I've received. Yeah, they can be handy at times in an emergency but I'm sticking it out and won't be brow-beaten into getting another one.
I have never owned one, I admit I have used my OH's when I have had to, because sometimes, especially when Covid was around, I needed one in order to get in the Dr's or the dentist.
I just don't understand why so many people have to live their lives through a small hand held screen, they miss what's actually going on around them.
Some would rather be transfixed with whatever they are looking at on the screen than be communicating with the people who they are actually with...it's the height of ignorance.
And how some of them are not squashed in the road I don't know, I have seen 3 year olds with more road awareness.
Syl said
Dec 2 12:02 PM, 2024
Lately, almost every morning around 11ish, I get a phone call (on the house phone) where as soon as I answer, the line goes dead.
Apparently some call centres line up dozens of calls for the same time, and cant cope with the amount of people if more than expected answer.
Some are scam energy companies, some are genuine, and some are not listed so they could be anyone, we block every one, but they still keep coming.
Magica said
Dec 2 12:17 PM, 2024
Syl wrote:
Lately, almost every morning around 11ish, I get a phone call (on the house phone) where as soon as I answer, the line goes dead.
Apparently some call centres line up dozens of calls for the same time, and cant cope with the amount of people if more than expected answer.
Some are scam energy companies, some are genuine, and some are not listed so they could be anyone, we block every one, but they still keep coming.
Yes that's what call centres do. Bloody pain!
Syl said
Dec 2 1:33 PM, 2024
Magica wrote:
Syl wrote:
Lately, almost every morning around 11ish, I get a phone call (on the house phone) where as soon as I answer, the line goes dead.
Apparently some call centres line up dozens of calls for the same time, and cant cope with the amount of people if more than expected answer.
Some are scam energy companies, some are genuine, and some are not listed so they could be anyone, we block every one, but they still keep coming.
Yes that's what call centres do. Bloody pain!
Indeed.
Though not as bad as an early morning call (early for me anyway, I don't get up till later) when a man would call thinking I was a help centre.
No matter how many times I told him he had the wrong number, and I even found the right number for him, he would just hang up...no thanks, no apology, nothing.
After weeks of this, I had enough, dialed 171, rang him back, and told him if he carried on I would report his number to the authorities....it worked.
I don't worry about that, because I think I am one of the very few people left in the modern world that doesn't own a mobile phone....and I intend to keep it that way for as long as possible.
That makes two of us Syl. Had one a few years ago and never felt I had any peace so I eventually binned it. I've never understood the curiousity of what someone is eating at a cafe and why my whereabouts 24/7 are of interest to anyone but myself. Perhaps I just have nosey friends.
The number of organisations that have sounded surprised to learn I haven't got one...you'd think I'd confessed to battering someone with the number of gasps I've received. Yeah, they can be handy at times in an emergency but I'm sticking it out and won't be brow-beaten into getting another one.
Good!
Mine generally does that too, but some slimy scammers still somehow manage to try their luck 
Good on you
I‘m sometimes tempted to bin mine forevermore!
I have never owned one, I admit I have used my OH's when I have had to, because sometimes, especially when Covid was around, I needed one in order to get in the Dr's or the dentist.
I just don't understand why so many people have to live their lives through a small hand held screen, they miss what's actually going on around them.
Some would rather be transfixed with whatever they are looking at on the screen than be communicating with the people who they are actually with...it's the height of ignorance.
And how some of them are not squashed in the road I don't know, I have seen 3 year olds with more road awareness.
Apparently some call centres line up dozens of calls for the same time, and cant cope with the amount of people if more than expected answer.
Some are scam energy companies, some are genuine, and some are not listed so they could be anyone, we block every one, but they still keep coming.
Yes that's what call centres do. Bloody pain!
Indeed.
Though not as bad as an early morning call (early for me anyway, I don't get up till later) when a man would call thinking I was a help centre.
No matter how many times I told him he had the wrong number, and I even found the right number for him, he would just hang up...no thanks, no apology, nothing.
After weeks of this, I had enough, dialed 171, rang him back, and told him if he carried on I would report his number to the authorities....it worked.