Rate Cut T***M?

[saptastic]

They either come in on an 0203 number or, occasionally, it show as a local number. Sneaky sods.

It used to be so bad that I'd just reject any 0203 number without even having a conversation.

0203 is a standard landline number.
They run out of 0207 and 0208 so I wouldn't judge on this bases. Plenty of legit businesses have it.

[SueEllen]

That really isn't a surefire way to tell. Many based in the UK still retain their accents, even a couple generations in

But yeah.. it's a bit of a quandary sometimes.

No the accents are different and so is the English. Their accents and English are completely different to anyone who has been in the UK for more than 6 months.

[Eirikur]

0203 is a standard landline number.
They run out of 0207 and 0208 so I wouldn't judge on this bases. Plenty of legit businesses have it.

0203 is used a lot by the Indian agencies as the VoIP numbers that are being sold mostly start with this. My previous contract was with a telecoms provider who did exactly that, sell London based VoIP numbers to mostly Indian companies and 90% of them started with 0203