"Consumer Lifestyle Survey"

[Trevatanus]

What are these all about?
I have had calls in the evening, clearly from an Indian call centre, usually when I am about to sit down to dinner, and I invariably do not want to to take part " in a short survey".
A couple of times I have said no, hung up the phone, and a few minutes later got an abusive call back from the caller. Anyone know what these are about? Some sort of scam, or is it just a survey done by some very unprofessional people?

[Xerstead]

It's so they can find our your interests, and lifestyle commitments (insurance, mobile...) so you can receive even more marketing calls, and sell your details to anyone willing to pay.

[marshalla]

Xerstead said:

It's so they can find our your interests, and lifestyle commitments (insurance, mobile...) so you can receive even more marketing calls, and sell your details to anyone willing to pay.

100% this - it's a way of getting round the rules on cold calling. Surveys are excluded from the "do not call" system, so they use a survey to capture your details and, somewhere in it, get permission to pass your details on to "carefully selected partners", thus getting you to opt-in to receiving sales calls.

[Trevatanus]

just found a number for them, they confirmed it was the right number, and they agreed to remove me from their database, although this can apparently take up to a fortnight to fully go through.

[deckster]

Trevatanus said:

just found a number for them, they confirmed it was the right number, and they agreed to remove me from their database, although this can apparently take up to a fortnight to fully go through.

A fortnight to fully update the database to say yes, there is a person on the end of the phone and they have time to spend on the phone. Well done you!