I am also fed up and I am not very polite to them either.I wish I knew a soulution.

I have caller ID so NEVER answer international calls. My grandson loves talking on the phone so he can deal with the calls. I am not rude to unsolicited calls but I dont answer questions and politely say goodbye and put the phone down. Caller ID is good

I had one of those calls and when he started in I asked him what the **** he needed to know about my computer and hung up.

This is very annoying.
I found a good solution is to keep saying "hello hello, hello - sorry but I can't hear you" then just hang up.

I got a call last night from someone in ct and had to say hello about 10 times before anyone came on the line when someone did finally come on the line they said good evening mam how are you I told them "I was out of breath running to the phone and had to say hello 10 times before getting a response and that they had better have something important to say or I wish a pox come down on her house and the reply was "can I call back at a better time" my response was no and i rather you not call back at all and hung up I know they will call back and I will wish them a greater pox come down on their house next time. :} dean

I have caller ID along with an answering machine. If I do not recognize the number I do not answer the phone. If it is important they will leave a message and then I will call back. Nine times out of ten there is no message so I know it is nobody important to me. Hugs, Mary

Yes I've had these calls also. I just hang up.

Contact your telephone provider. In the USA we have a service you can pay a small monthly fee to have solicitors rejected. It prevents the calls from even ringing your home. Your friends will have to press a number to ring you. Automated phone calls never make it through. The caller gets a message like, :If you are a solicitor please add this number to your do not call list. If you are not a solicitor please press (a number) to continue this call." I just use an unpublished VOIP or internet home phone and my cell phone so I don't have the problem.

I tell people all the time....no one legitimate cares if you have a virus, no one would know you have a virus, and no one legitimate will call and offer to fix your virus.

My sister went to a walmart gas station in Austin Texas and they took some of the information on ther card and someone charged 250.00, my aunt's master card was also used to pay someone utilities in Toluca Mexico!!! Can you believe that!!!!

Doesnt matter how indignant you get with these folks , they will always call back. So have some fun, tell them that you think it is a great idea and if they would give YOU their account number you would be happy to make a deposit. Or if they would give you their home phone number you would call them as soon as you got a moment . Then hang up.

One of the fun ways to get back at them is to ask them if they can hold on to talk to your DH or someone else, then put the phone down & come back to it in about 30 minutes. You'd be surprised how long they'll wait on the phone to talk to someone.

I'm with several others on here - I ported my home phone to a cell phone so only have one number that is not in the telephone directory because it is now a cell number, but does not follow the standard cell number listings. Callers numbers are shown before I answer. If I do not recognize the number I don't answer the phone. If it's important they leave a message. Most of the time there is no message so I know whoever it was didn't really want to talk with me.

i use to tell them that no one has a computer here untill i iang the no more calls in Australia and it is a free service the only ones it doesnt block is the charities and they say they are exempt.

Thanks for the info and the LOL! Some of our Cutes solutions are too funny! Live Laugh Download Stitch!

I HATE THAT ALSO :(:(

all the way across the world & we can't stop this, I have to wonder why!if you don't recognize the # don't asnwer it(if you have #id)

I usually tell them to give me their address and I will come to see them, since I don't give information over the phone. They never get back to me thereafter.

I found something that WORKS!! I was getting those "card holder services" calls several times per day. You would think they would go away and leave us alone. I went and bought a gym whistle. Now, when they call, I get someone on the line, start talking real low to them so they have to listen, and then blast them with the whistle. The calls abruptly stopped. It sounds cruel, but what they are doing is truly criminal!! I haven't had a call from them since. I think they got the message!

I have DHDon's football umpiring whistle which is on guard duty constantly by the phone. I blew it long and hard once after an incredibly busy 'call session'..... poor very rude, very insistent woman who rang me.

Then I was told by an angry caller who rang two weeks ago, 'You kept on saying Oh, yes, Oh, yes, and I don't like that!!!', and he banged down the phone. Hey! and I'm supposed to 'like' illegal scammers trying to steal my information over the phone???????

The Seniors in Australia have been advised to just hang up, and that's really the best, but it's a confounded nuisance when one sits down at last in the evening only to have to dig oneself out of the arm chair again to answer these troublesome calls, often three in a row, beginning around 6 p.m.
Two days ago when I told one insistent caller, who rang to tell me that I was downloading a virus, that I didn't own a computer he asked, 'Well, has your boy friend got one?' I guess any old computer will do if there's a naive dope willing to give out the information.

I'm not a rude person by nature but these calls have certainly trained me to be a very active one with a long list of responses, depending on the time I have on hand or my mood.
AlmaG.

Hi,"A BIG THANKS" for this post,Have today received a call,from these people,I kept saying hallo,then put the phone down,so far they havn't rung back,I live in England,so it's a widespread scam they have going on,so everyone needs to be aware of them.

I just keep asking them to speak up as i can't hear them, by the time they are shouting they decided to give in.Either that, or i ask them to hold whilst i call my husband and then pull the phone out and keep their line open for half an hour.
they soon get the message.
annie

thanks for the laugh ,this is a great topic,,,,,lol

Once again thank goodness for caller ID. I have a couple of friends whose numbers are blocked, but I commonly get 'overseas' ones around lunchtime which I don't answer. A friend who worked for the phone company told me that it's a way they get a list of who is home to answer their phone in order to sell lists to others.