Nuisance Calls

esuhl

Stompa wrote: »

I don't believe you can be charged for simply pressing '1'.

Certainly not if you pressed it during an *incoming* call.

MissyD_2

sadman01 wrote: »

I have been getting calls all of today from this number, Google search suggests it is connected to an Ebay seller. My advice is: if you don't know the number, don't answer it. If someone wants to talk to you they will leave a message on the voice mail.

There is also a website www.mpsonline.org.uk where you register your phone number to stop nuisance calls.

Sorry, but www.mpsonline.org.uk is actually the mail preference service and the one you want is http://www.tpsonline.org.uk/tps/ for the telephone preference service.
I registered for both & noticed the difference within a month!;)

Mike_Jersey

Tried http://www.tpsonline.org.uk/tps/ today 6th August 2008 but comes up
Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage. Google lists www.CallPreventionRegistry.co.uk which seems to do same thing but costs £35:75 p.a!!.


Why on earth should we have to pay to stop firms we don't want to hear from calling us. It's particularly aggravating when it's mobile phone coys who don't even operate in the place where you live - presumably checking directories is too expensive for them.

Latest come from "Denise (who does not have english as her first language) of TFC acting on behalf of 25 leading UK banks" TFC is a loan consolidation outfit in Warrington.

Froggitt

Its the right address.....I guess someone forgot to pay the hosting bill

BexTech

TPS site working here, maybe a DNS issue, if still not working for others.

Bob63

MPS and TPS both back online - they are the same organisation so both sites went down this morning at the same time.

sillyvixen

i have been recieving calls from # 0845 618 0195 for different people - none of whom live at this address!! all at about 3pm for 4 days (off sick at mo) i am ex direc and tel pref, whats going on - clearly a scam .... may have been ringing for ages,, keep promising to take no off list

Mike_Jersey

Thanks, working today so now registered

woodentops_2

Hi,Ive just received a call from an automated Rachel saying I had won a holiday in Cancoun. I certainly didn't enter a competition for this holiday. I don't know where Cancoun is and i'm not even sure I've spelt it correctly!!
It was an all inclusive package. The voice said to press 1 so I hung up. When I 1471'd I just got the phone number and not the automated voice again.

BexTech

woodentops wrote: »

Hi,Ive just received a call from an automated Rachel saying I had won a holiday in Cancoun. I certainly didn't enter a competition for this holiday. I don't know where Cancoun is and i'm not even sure I've spelt it correctly!!
It was an all inclusive package. The voice said to press 1 so I hung up. When I 1471'd I just got the phone number and not the automated voice again.

If you had pressed 1, it would have put you through to an agent, you could then waste their time at their expense!