Nuisance Calls

It may only be a coincidence ( and I hope so) but
since porting my landline number to a VOIP service (A&A) the nuisance/scam call rate has increased from 1/2 per week to 2/3 per day.
Many from same caller but different Caller ID number everytime.
Any comments, ideas etc.
Has there just been a peak in scam calls ?

In reply to a post by rarrar:

It may only be a coincidence ( and I hope so) but
since porting my landline number to a VOIP service (A&A) the nuisance/scam call rate has increased from 1/2 per week to 2/3 per day.
Many from same caller but different Caller ID number everytime.
Any comments, ideas etc.
Has there just been a peak in scam calls ?

Not sure if the rate is worse than it was previously when I had phone service from Talktalk for the last 10 years. I suspect that a lot of these calls are just down to people trying different number ranges or retrying them. I had a peak of unwanted calls last year, so far with A&A I have seen a few more in previous weeks but they seem to be dying down again.

I don't have a good solution yet, we are TPS registered but it's about as much use as a chocolate fireguard.

Can't say I find there are really more common since porting to A&A here.

Sometimes its one a week, sometimes they will call every day then it dies off again. Happens on my mobile too (but strangely to a lesser degree) but I leave that in silent mode so only numbers from my address book actually ring.

I do wish they had a blocklist but like you said its not going to help much when they are randomising the caller ID.

I'm not sure scam calls have become more prevalent to my number over the last 12 months since I moved it to A&A, rather that getting the email when a call arrives makes it more obvious? - if I get one per month, it's a bad month. Always from Derry (until I blocked all OLI calls from there...)

I ported our number from Plusnet (BT) to A&A about 18 months ago. I don't think there was a significant change in nuisance calls since the port.

I am using a Fritzbox and sometimes block numbers from nuisance calls (if I don't forget to do that after the call)

In reply to a post by rarrar:

nuisance/scam call rate has increased from 1/2 per week to 2/3 per day.

I feel like I'm missing out as I haven't received a nuisance call for at least 17 years across 3 different home phone numbers

I ported my number to Voip 8 years ago. I think the number of nuisance calls has reduced over this time. It is a long time since I had a boiler room scam call. Recently my Android mobile phone has started getting calls which it identifies as spam. I don't think the phone rings.

In reply to a post by essex_man:

I ported our number from Plusnet (BT) to A&A about 18 months ago. I don't think there was a significant change in nuisance calls since the port.

I am using a Fritzbox and sometimes block numbers from nuisance calls (if I don't forget to do that after the call)

I have the same setup, ported from Talktalk 18 months ago. I used to use Talktalk call safe so that callers would have to wait until call was accepted prior to that. This stopped all scam calls.
After migrating I was a bit concerned. Had 2 cold callers from same company in the first week after and told them second time that I was on TPS and to remove me. Since then none. I was using a gigaset, but about 6 months ago moved to Fritz and I use an answering machine in Fritz to greet unknown callers but not forward any message.

Okay
Thanks everyone
Must have just been unlucky, hopefully just a pulse of scam calls.
Was just the sudden increase in calls when I moved - even my spouse commented.
On the Plus side having the House phone answerable on both our Mobiles through SoftPhone is such a benefit.

In reply to a post by rarrar:

It may only be a coincidence ( and I hope so) but
since porting my landline number to a VOIP service (A&A) the nuisance/scam call rate has increased from 1/2 per week to 2/3 per day.
Many from same caller but different Caller ID number everytime.
Any comments, ideas etc.
Has there just been a peak in scam calls ?

Prior to moving the phone service to VOIP, (with Sipgate and also Voipify), we did have a lot of nuisance calls in on the old landline number. - (Registering the landline with the TPS was a waste of time).

When we changed to VOIP we did not port the old landline number and we took up the VOIP providers offer of free new VOIP numbers when we joined then.

The result has been that since we changed to VOIP, (with free new phone numbers), we have not had one nuisance call.

Perhaps, porting the old landline number can result in existing issues being transferred.