Annoying phone calls
Discussion
PAULJ5555 said:
When you get a automated call and it askes you to press 5 to unsubscribe, should you press it?
Does this just show them that its an active number with a living person on the end, they can then sell it on to others.
NEVER ,NEVER ,press any number. One nice scam was for scammers to call you up and invite you to press a number to hear a list of prizes you might have won. Pressing a number, connected you via a very high charge line to an overseas call centre. The fact that the number rings and does not return NU( number unobtainable ) tells them that the number is active. When last I had a land line, I had CLI, and a phone system with name to number recognition . Any name that came up unknown, got the pick up and drop response. If they persisted, I then had more evidence for TPS/ICO complaint, and most of these companies are listed on "who calls me". Does this just show them that its an active number with a living person on the end, they can then sell it on to others.
JMGS4 said:
We have few cold calls in Germany as these are against the law, however some foreign ones get through. I keep a VERY shrill footie whistle near the phone. Use once and the bu99ers don't call again!
Ah that works until you get caught out by a seemingly silent call and give your reasonably fit sister in law a full power session into her right ear. This is not a euphemism. We used to get some asking for my mum trying to buy shares from her that she sold two years ago. Eventually I relented and told them that she was at work and whilst I didn't know the number, if they phoned West Midlands police fraud department someone would speak to them there. Gone from one or two calls a week for six months to none in the last three.
driver67 said:
Here's my Truecall analysis for the last month.
This was from 87 calls. Think my phone only rang around 5-6 times, only one non-starred caller.
Truecall works exactly how you configure it.
That's impressive. We only get 2-3 nuisence calls a week. Still bloody annoying tho.This was from 87 calls. Think my phone only rang around 5-6 times, only one non-starred caller.
Truecall works exactly how you configure it.
bad company said:
Yes but that would mean living in France! 
Yes, fifteen years of living in France teaches a man to hate. Fifteen years of wearing perfume,
fifteen years of eating frogs, fifteen years of
saying "Pardon"
But surely the scenery.
I never went outside.I couldn't stand the smell
Is there an equivalent for Godwin's law for quoting Blackadder?
Edited by auto1 on Wednesday 9th July 09:21
Edited by auto1 on Wednesday 9th July 09:22
auto1 said:
bad company said:
Yes but that would mean living in France!
Yes, fifteen years of living in France teaches a man to hate. Fifteen years of wearing perfume,
fifteen years of eating frogs, fifteen years of
saying "Pardon"
But surely the scenery.
I never went outside.I couldn't stand the smell
Is there an equivalent for Godwin's law for quoting Blackadder?
Edited by auto1 on Wednesday 9th July 09:21
Edited by auto1 on Wednesday 9th July 09:22
bad company said:
Way off topic but this is the mean Mrs BC & I avoid France at all costs. We arrive at Calais and get to Belgium / Germany ASAP - http://www.driving.co.uk/news/british-holidaymaker...
My topic 
Back on topic, mother in law (aka G-Ma) has been complaining about these calls for some time, and I could hear Mrs FiF getting increasingly frustrated with trying to sort her out, as in some respects she was coming across as being a bit wimpy about it all and quite paranoid.
So we set her up with a Truecall Care unit.
11 blocked calls in last 36 hours.
I hereby apologise to G'Ma, if was that bad at our house I would have bought one of these long ago.
So we set her up with a Truecall Care unit.
11 blocked calls in last 36 hours.
I hereby apologise to G'Ma, if was that bad at our house I would have bought one of these long ago.
I am self employed and get nuisance phone calls from companies trying to get me to change my energy supplier, phone provider, waste oil collection service and various others, anything up to 20 times a day, sometimes I wonder how I get any work done at all, but because its commercial calls it doesnt come under TPS rules. I also get all the others, PPIclaims, personal injury etc to my mobile.
mygoldfishbowl said:
Caller display service = £2.50 a month and http://www.bt.com/includingyou/products-phones-bt-...
I believe it's free if you get the privacy package, but involves another 12 month contract. Don't forget to make a complaint to ICO . They appear to have sharper teeth than TPS. If you know the number, you can look up silentcalls on who calls me .
My late father had served in the Indian Army during the Second World War, so had passed on a few highly insulting words of Urdu to me, which I find most effective in getting shot of calls from certain people, who affect fictitious British first names.
The other trick is to create a list of irrelevant phrases, which you keep to hand when answering these idiots...
"Is that Mr (me)"
"Labradors fart horribly!"
"Excuse me sir"
"My hovercraft is full of eels"
"Do you have a computer?"
"I hate football!"
"Am I speaking with the householder?"
"I had one once, but the wheels fell off!"
You get the idea - just waste the buggers' time!
The other trick is to create a list of irrelevant phrases, which you keep to hand when answering these idiots...
"Is that Mr (me)"
"Labradors fart horribly!"
"Excuse me sir"
"My hovercraft is full of eels"
"Do you have a computer?"
"I hate football!"
"Am I speaking with the householder?"
"I had one once, but the wheels fell off!"
You get the idea - just waste the buggers' time!
sunbeam alpine said:
Proves he's really a pensioner - easily conned. (Plus he only said tuned by speedwell, not well tuned).
Anyway, he doesn't have to worry about having anyone to talk to - every wednesday, down the post office, collect the pension, tell the same stories while the queue grows......
DON't you talk to my mate like that! ...or I will comb my hair with a hedgehog, re-attach my braces and come find you with my very large cucumber (which I grew myself of course).Anyway, he doesn't have to worry about having anyone to talk to - every wednesday, down the post office, collect the pension, tell the same stories while the queue grows......
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