new "bt" scam in operation

[Ant1981]

The cutting off of the line is very simple, he stays on the line with the mute button on and you can't dial out - but he can hear you trying (This is because the person who initiates a call is the one to terminate it). When you stop trying he cuts off and immediately calls back.

What a load of sh!t.

If one end of the connection is severed, no matter whether by dialing out or being the receiver the connection is terminated.

Not true you can keep a connection live on a landline

But he says he's done it and it cuts out. Maybe different network areas are different.

[AudiA8Quattro]

What did you do Slick, go next door and ring your home phone? 

[Agreeable Slick]

- Well obviously I don't have two landlines, but tried mobile to mobile, landline to mobile, mobile to landline. I've also tried it with the missus when she was at home. I rang her and told her to hang up and try ringing someone else. Sure enough I got cut off. How rude.

[AudiA8Quattro]

Do you mean you tried landline to landline?
If some irritating sh!t(sales company) rings me at work, if i hang up the line will not cut off until they hang up.
I thought this is how it worked?
Anyway its good to warn people, these scammers need shooting 

[Bellend]

Had a customer phone us accidently from his mobile once. Non stop ringing til he switched it off. Could get a dial tone occasionally if you battered the hang up switched enough.

[kittie]

- Well obviously I don't have two landlines, but tried mobile to mobile, landline to mobile, mobile to landline. I've also tried it with the missus when she was at home. I rang her and told her to hang up and try ringing someone else. Sure enough I got cut off. How rude.

Nooo has to be landline to landline I think and it has to be the person who made the call that keeps the line open

[Adam]

Just tried calling my landline form my mobile...It does work, the phone keeps connection.

O2 mobile-BT landline

[Agreeable Slick]

- Well obviously I don't have two landlines, but tried mobile to mobile, landline to mobile, mobile to landline. I've also tried it with the missus when she was at home. I rang her and told her to hang up and try ringing someone else. Sure enough I got cut off. How rude.

Nooo has to be landline to landline I think and it has to be the person who made the call that keeps the line open

Which is what I did each time. I always kept the line open, but hung up from the receiving line.

Mobile was the same as was landline to mobile.

Seems this appears to work randomly as a pose to everyone every time then.

[Bellend]

If I ring my house from my mobile and hang up at the house, the phone just stays on and dead and if I open the line on the house again it will be back in the call, so it works.

Do it the other way round and obviously it doesn't work.

[Jay]

Just tested it and it works, I thought that had been changed years ago for this reason