Thanks Wingco. In my case the nuisance (often silent) calls seem to come from abroad, from people who want to repair non existent faults on my computer or the like, so I guess wouldn't be stopped by ACR.

I find that Caller ID tells me if a caller is "International".
I just ignore these calls and when my Answerphone kicks in the caller puts the phone down.
The people I want to accept calls from are all in my Phonebook on the phone.
The TPS (Telephone Preference Service) screens out most sales calls from UK
telephone marketing companies.

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In reply to a post by ash76:

I find that Caller ID tells me if a caller is "International".

Yes, and I count that as unavailable.

I have a friend who uses one of these prefix suppliers who shows as "International", so it isn't always true.

TPS still has jurisdiction over UK firms that call in from overseas, so it might be worth getting a Co. name.

Even paying BT £4 per month for anonymous caller reject will not stop International anonymous calls, let alond silent and sales/scam calls. One box will stop the lot. http://www.truecall.co.uk/

In reply to a post by ash76:

I just ignore these calls and when my Answerphone kicks in the caller puts the phone down.

I use this method too, you can of course end up with messages on the answer phone from companies that use recorded messages instead of real people. (Had quite a few of these from the US recently, around every other day for about two weeks).

That seems like a good piece of kit. Do you have it?

If you've time have a read of posts, more so some of those on pages 2 and 3 > PN forum

Thanks for that. It answers all my questions