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Could nuisance callers lead to the death of the landline? Two thirds of Britons admit ignoring their home phone to avoid scammersThey used to be considered as essential in virtually every British home. But landline telephones are in danger of being relegated to museum pieces, thanks to the rise of nuisance callers.
Nearly two thirds of Britons now ignore their landlines in order to avoid cold calls and scammers.
Millions of people let their calls go to voicemail so that they can screen who it is that is trying to contact them. But others ignore the calls altogether.
The findings – in a new TalkTalk report – come amid growing evidence that cold calls in the UK have reached epidemic proportions.
Earlier this month, it emerged that Britons were bombarded with 2.2million nuisance phone calls and texts about PPI, pensions and insurance scams last year.
Nearly 900million of those calls and texts came from ambulance-chasing firms trying to get people to claim compensation for accidents, an analysis of Ofcom data found.
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