Ways to stop overseas sales calls discussion

Froggitt

Them: A few questions before we start. Are you over 18?


Me: No


Them: Oh. Is your daddy there?


Me: No.


Them: OK then. Bye

vonny67

GrumpyOldGits wrote: »

Actually what really gets to me is that we have to PAY, sometimes an astronomical amount of money, to STOP these idiots telephoning us.
These units you mention at £60. Ok if you have the money, but lots of us dont! That's part of our main reason for coming to websites like this!!!

Im on the TPS and its doing me no good at all. One that telephoned me from (so he said) SE Asia. Said he was a company called "UK today"
I asked for a number to call them back on and where they were based, and got a 'little bit of info' from him which I passed onto the Police in the end, because over the five minutes or so I spent on the line with him, he got progressively abusive to me.
It wont happen again though. Im going to start using the 'whistle technique' if they dont stop pretty soon... Burst a few eardrums... :mad:
Amazin' .. when I was younger I had loads of patience, that has all gone to pot now!!
I really am what it says on my username tin! :eek:;)

me? i just wind them up :rotfl:

vonny67

betty_boop_48 wrote: »

Just wondering if anyone has had any calls from a company called financial solutions, foreign voice so i assume from overseas. Keep calling to speak to my husband, claim it’s to do with a complaint and office of fair trading. I refused to put my husband on the phone last friday and they said we’ll start court proceedings and told them to carry on. Called again today and i told them my husband was out!!! Seems dodgy just curious if anyone else knows of them?

tell them he's in jail for murder :rotfl:

Mapleleaf

You could try this tactic http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmKtS-k12b0

Mr_Ejog

Mr_Ejog wrote: »

The calls claiming that you have malicious software on your PC are a scam.
I used to get lots of them but I found a solution.

I found a phone number for the Police internet fraud department and next time I got one of these calls I told them that my PC was next to my other phone and asked them to call back on my other number (the fraud squads number)

I have no idea if they actually called it but I stopped getting these annoying scam calls.

:rotfl:

The number is:

0161 234 9230

EigoManiac

As soon as they answer, just start to speak in the worst Asian accent that you can, specially Indian, it drives them nuts when I last had a call from some "survey" call center the guy got so furious they slammed the phone down.

No calls since :j

Ellisdee_2

I am a cold-caller myself. Want the best way to stop the calls? Stop being rude to the people calling you. If someone asks me (and doesn't even have to be in a nice way), to remove their number off our system, I will do it. However, if you're downright rude, swear, arrogant or shout and slam the phone down, you can bet your !!! you'll remain on the system.

Would you expect a traffic warden to stop writing you a ticket if you spoke to him like that? No. Don't do it, it won't get you anywhere. After all, the only reason you're getting cold-called is because you were stupid enough to allow your information to be sold on. In-fact you were too lazy to read whatever you were leaving your details on and didn't tick that little box which says they aren't allowed to sell your info. It's your own fault.

At the end of the day our company generates £30m a year. 70% is from cold calling, just because you aren't interested, it doesn't mean other people aren't.

stormclouds

Nonsense. I've tried being polite and it doesn't work. They kept phoning and phoning and phoning. 15 phone calls in the space of 10 minutes and all because I was polite. I had to leave the phone off the hook for ages to make them stop.

I am neither stupid nor lazy and always read the small print, T&C and correctly deal with ticky boxes for marketing crap. My details were either sold on by an unscrupulous company or harvested during one of the many data breaches we've seen recently. Stop trying to blame the victims of these scum.

Anyone in the UK who calls me in this way is breaking the law and I always report them.

Ellisdee wrote: »

I am a cold-caller myself. Want the best way to stop the calls? Stop being rude to the people calling you. If someone asks me (and doesn't even have to be in a nice way), to remove their number off our system, I will do it. However, if you're downright rude, swear, arrogant or shout and slam the phone down, you can bet your !!! you'll remain on the system.

Would you expect a traffic warden to stop writing you a ticket if you spoke to him like that? No. Don't do it, it won't get you anywhere. After all, the only reason you're getting cold-called is because you were stupid enough to allow your information to be sold on. In-fact you were too lazy to read whatever you were leaving your details on and didn't tick that little box which says they aren't allowed to sell your info. It's your own fault.

Froggitt

Ellisdee wrote: »

I am a cold-caller myself.

Does your company respect the TPS "do not call" list?

The Telephone Preference Service (TPS) is a free service. It is the official central opt out register on which you can record your preference not to receive unsolicited sales or marketing calls. It is a legal requirement that all organisations (including charities, voluntary organisations and political parties) do not make such calls to numbers registered on the TPS unless they have your consent to do so.

Unfortunately TPS appear in the phone directory directly next to USELESS.


If you rang me, so long as I had nothing better to do, I would waste your time for as long as you kept on the call "Oooh that's interesting/Mmmmmm/Let me go outside and see if I have a satellite on my roof/I'm running Windows 8.2/Solar panels, they sound interesting/No I've never heard of PPI claims". If I have something better to so its "Did I ask you to call me.....no....sorry I don't speak to cold callers.....bye".

rdann

Ellisdee wrote: »

I am a cold-caller myself. Want the best way to stop the calls? Stop being rude to the people calling you. If someone asks me (and doesn't even have to be in a nice way), to remove their number off our system, I will do it. However, if you're downright rude, swear, arrogant or shout and slam the phone down, you can bet your !!! you'll remain on the system.

Would you expect a traffic warden to stop writing you a ticket if you spoke to him like that? No. Don't do it, it won't get you anywhere. After all, the only reason you're getting cold-called is because you were stupid enough to allow your information to be sold on. In-fact you were too lazy to read whatever you were leaving your details on and didn't tick that little box which says they aren't allowed to sell your info. It's your own fault.

At the end of the day our company generates £30m a year. 70% is from cold calling, just because you aren't interested, it doesn't mean other people aren't.

I have tried being polite, does not work, you are the exception if you do remove details when requested. You will get no sympathy on this forum as the majority of cold callers don' give any respect to the people they call. In fairness to yourself the main problem is overseas callers who are not bound by UK rules.