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Letters: Cold callers are are big nuisance in France

Reader says it is difficult to avoid calls or even to find out information about them

Reader says she has even tried pretending to not understand
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To the Editor,

I receive on average six to eight calls a week from a 0424 number. I have tried pretending I don't speak French; some bad language (in French) when the mood takes me; saying “Sorry, this doesn't concern me”; asking to be removed from the calling list; hanging up.

Nothing doing! 

On the (very rare) occasions I speak to them, they invariably propose a renovation of my loft. I don't have a loft.

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It really is infuriating! But try and engage them to find out more, and THEY hang up, so it is difficult to report them!

Sue Hudson, by email

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