When the landline rings, and shows a number I don't recognise, I generally let it ring out, while googling the number. Very
few leave a voice mail: of those that do, most are obvious scam calls, with a robotic voice telling me I'm going to be prosecuted,
or I've been signed up to amazon prime, etc.
The first couple of pages of google results are usually hits on dodgy-looking websites that seem to be nothing but catalogues
of random phone numbers. (Try, for example "01799494983".)
My suspicion is that these are, 90%, repositories of spoofable numbers set up scammers to use.
Am I wrong?
Now that there are 5 or 6 of these a day, recently up from ~ 1 a fortnight, I'm beginning to get a wee bit misanthropic, and I'm usually
such a sunny bunny...