Team Partners Telecommunications

Don't get caught out by this telecoms trap!

Posted on Dec 21, 2025  | Tags: phone lines, phone systems

Even those of you reading this that keep an eye on the news may not be immediately aware of the significance of the Indian city of Jamtara, but you may have heard of the existence of centres of phishing/vishing scams, where local youths became wealthy through large-scale international fraud schemes before, that is, the police cracked down on them. More recently an area known as KK Park, on the banks of the river separating Myanmar from Thailand, has been in the news. Extraordinary though it may be to us, this is an entire 500 acre plus area of high-rise buildings and luxury villas dedicated to a multibillion-dollar criminal fraud industry, fuelled by human trafficking and violence and aimed at conning you out of your money.

Why are we telling you this? It’s because we want to draw your attention to something that isn’t a scam but is definitely a con, and whilst it’s much closer to home than the jungles of Asia, it can part you from your money just as easily as anything our Burmese friends are doing.

It’s all to do with telecoms and what was called the ‘Big 2025 Switch Off’, until it was postponed to 2027, which rather upset the marketing. Nonetheless it’s something you should be aware of and may even have been putting off thinking about, which is the UK switch from copper-based telephone systems to digital only. You may well be fully digital already, but many aren’t, and even more may have forgotten about the security system or lift emergency line that has remained copper based whilst everything else has switched.

Back to the con. We’ve found that many business users have been receiving calls from Telecoms providers like BT Local Business, telling them that they are going to be moved to a new digital service. Now, many will have moved years ago, and for many BT Local Business isn’t even their provider, but nonetheless, they’re making these calls and although they may not originate from the banks of the Moei River, they’re as much a con…or a scam, you decide.

You may have received one of these calls or know someone who has. In either case, or even if you want to know how best to deal with such a call should it arise, get in touch with us.