I'm forever getting telephone calls from abroad asking me to complete surveys for them and it's annoying. I've been very polite up to now but what I've started to do is answer the phone and when they mention "survey" I just say hold on and put the phone down and just carry on with something.
After about 5 minutes I replace the receiver and hang up. I've got a caller display on the phone but it doesn't help as the number just comes up as international.
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Hugo, we also have this problem, but as we no longer have friends/family living abroad , we just let it ring. Part of the trouble is, that once you have accepted a call from these people, they know it is a live phone number, and as they pass the detail on, it will snowball, you will get more and more call from these pains in the bottom. As we do not answer, the call are now very infrequent, we may go a month or two without one, then get two on consecutive days, presumably from the same person, but it is never more than two, so not answering really works. If you have people outside the UK who are likely to call you, just ask them to perhaps send you a text message before hand to warn you they are going to call.