Have you been called by a ‘BT technical support’ phone scam?

Caller rang from 01277 509011 .Asian lady said I had a BT router problem.
I am not with BT !!!!!!
I told her to impolitely go away.

call 4 times in a few hours-automated message saying they were to cut off BT and internet as there was risk of something suspicious (?) and I was to click 1 for more information, blocked the number
it was 01425 611333

Have received 4 calls today from automated message saying there was suspicious activity from my address and would disconnect my internet, forgot to get first tel no but the rest were 07448059044, 07446954047 and 07443252041, have blocked them all

We have had a live call from an Asian sounding lady saying calling from BT technical regarding suspicious activity on our connection – I told her it was a scam and illegal and I would be reporting it. We have subsequently had a lot of automated calls threatening that our service will be cut off dur to the suspicious activity – we have hung up on the occasions we have bothered to pick up the call. We have signed our landline up to the telephone preference service hoping this will reduce the volume of scam calls…

01202246803, claiming to be bt openreach technical department, I asked him if he was a scammer and he hung up.

Had three to four automated calls in last two days to say my internet and phone will be cut off due to suspicious activities and should press one to speak with a BT executive, put phone down; number is different each time and on last call number withheld when checked. Is certainly a scam as BT account up to date and no messages

Had yet another scam call from ‘BT’. Again, about security. Their number was ‘unavailable’. The worrying thing was they knew my name, address, BT account number & mobile phone number. They sent me a couple of text messages from 64364. Definitely getting more sophisticated.

Why not have some fun with them. They must have phoned me 10 times today. So far I’ve told them I wasnt the bill payer and I’d go and fetch them, and just left the phone off the hook for 20 minutes. The next call they told me they worked in BT Tower, to which I replied that I did as well and if they let me know which floor they were on I’d pop up and see them. The next call I told them I had two internet lines and I needed to know which one was compromised, and after a long conversation they couldn’t tell me which line it was and that I was lying and would be reported to the NSA. I’ve had so many hilarious conversations, my wife tells me I should make a book of them all. The whole family gather round the phone now when they ring as its such good entertainment. Luckily I work in IT so can see through the rubbish they’re spouting and give back as good as I get. But the longer I can keep them on the phone, the less time they have for defrauding someone more gullible.

We’ve had a number of fake BT calls during the last couple of weeks – every since, in fact, we swapped back from BT to Sky calls and broadband. Since our number is ex-directory and TPS protected, the only way the scammers can have been given our number would seem to be by BT themselves. Maybe BT do a ‘data dump’ of all numbers which are no longer customers each month, and that’s why the calls have only started now that we have left BT? Seems implausible I know, but where else would they get our landline number from? We hardly ever use the land line and never give out the number to anyone, preferring instead to use our mobile numbers.