Reply to post: Re: Just a short hop.

Hell Desk's 800 number was perfect for horrible heavy-breathing harassment calls

rh587

Re: Just a short hop.

Another poor dear phoned up and accused me of stealing her phone number (two digits swapped), at least that explained all the home help and social services calls I had been getting..

Reminds me of the call I had at work shortly after we moved in and had a change of number.

Me: Good morning, tiny-corp

Caller: Hello? Is Mabel there?

Me: I'm afraid not, this is a business number you've come through to.

Caller: Are you sure?

Um. Yes. Quite.

We then got a call from the Police telling us to stop cold-calling the elderly with aggressive sales tactics. as we were a small B2B that provided a specialist service to large (Fortune 500) type companies. We suggested they speak to BT about what bunch of pirates was assigned this number previously...

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