Irritating phone calls

[chrisvenus]

Last few mornings I've been woken by my phone ringing. I never get to it in time but the people phoning are always kind enough to leave an answer phone message. The problem I have with this is that the calls are at about 5AM (give or take a few minutes) and the answer phone messages seem to be in a foreign language (possibly indian but there are

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[chrisvenus]

Yeah, nothing turned up with 1471 which implies its international (as does the timing). And I don't believe the TPS can deal with international calls. I think BT pretty much put you on it anyway these days when you sign up. I'm fairly sure I am on it anyway.

[evath]

5am sounds like something going wrong. Can't believe it's a good time for telesales.

As for TPS, sign up to it, some of the do care...

[lathany]

Ah - I had a vaguely similar problem for a while (about four months). A guy kept ringing my phone (which I use as a portable phone box so is almost always switched off) leaving messages for "Terry". They started as polite little messages and reminders and then became slightly more ranty as Terry apparently wasn't returning his calls (!). Eventually he rang when I had it switched on and I corrected the mistake. I've still had the odd message since then, but he's mostly remembered that he got the number wrong.

However, in your case it looks like you'd need to be awake at 5am (and to have a common language), so let's hope they figure it out on their own.

[undyingking]

We get a load of spam calls from India, but they're always in English and during our daytime, so clearly people who know what they're doing. Yours may just be bewilderingly incompetent. Leaving a scary answerphone message yourself might help?