Ways to stop overseas sales calls discussion

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Get your missus to answer and say she is Mrs Simpson, and that Edward is busy visiting Buckingham Palace.

Paddy_Landau

flicks wrote: »

… until they are made illegal the best thing to do is brighten the experience by winding them up.

If you are registered with TPS, they are illegal and you can report them.

Froggitt

TPS worse than useless unfortunately.

housebug

The worst offenders are sales calls coming in from outside the U.K. We have a business line and BT insist they can do nothing about. We're registered with TPS for business and I've reported several variations of the same number to the ICO, but the calls keep coming.

It was really bad when we first got the number a year ago, less so now, but its still unacceptable.

k3lvc

heretohelpstpcoldcalls wrote: »

Hi, if you really want to stop cold calls then visit callblockerservices dot co dot uk and order a call blocker.....they work.

Do you sell spam blockers as well ??

ailang25

I want to report a SERIOUS FRAUD
Just been telephoned by a company offering to stop nuisance calls (we send you a dongle to plug in) for £1 per month. "We have heard that your area is being recently targeted". He quoted my postcode.
I pressed him for a web-site address and he replied
nomoresales and the termination co, dot, uk.
This does not exist.
I think he was after my credit card details.
I had this morning been troubled by some 6 calls that just went quiet. When I left it for my answering machine, they did not hang up until the tone to begin recording.

Two months ago I was telephoned to be told "We have just debited your credit card for a further 12 months suppression of nuisance calls, for £49". When I expressed disbelief, he said I had paid last year to one of his colleagues. I instructed him to cancel all such debits.
It took me a while to set up "statements on line" with my credit card company, where apparently all debits are right up to date. No such debits existed for either this year or last year.

The callers were very convincing callers with educated voices. I was nearly taken.
In the case of the one "renewing the debit", I suspect the technique would have been for them to hold the line open whilst I phoned my credit card company, and so get the card details that way. Or perhaps "give us your pin and we will cancel the debit."

I find it is totally useless contacting the UK Anti-Fraud line, or Trading Standards. We are totally unprotected in this country. So thank you MoneySavingExpert, for this forum.

ailang25

With a background in education, I used to answer cold calls from India, and think I was helping someone improve their English.
One asked me if I had double-glazing, who had fitted it, and was I happy with it. I supplied this information.

I had a cold call, about 6 months later, starting with "Are you still Happy with your Double Glazing", obviously from a UK line.

They claimed they were setting up a home-improvement site near my home (they knew address and post-code). I needed moss removing from my roof.

A convincing looking builder called, again asking about my double glazing (he obviously wanted me to think he was from that company). Thinking he was, I signed a contract and gave him £50 deposit. After he left, I looked at my copy, and the double glazing firm was not mentioned anywhere.
A workman phoned to say he would be at my house with a pressure cleaner the next day. I had specifically asked for steam cleaning so as not to damage the tiles.

I cancelled the contract by post, asking for my deposit back. When nothing happened, I filled all the silly forms in that Trading Standards Association requested.
They telephoned me back after referring it to a TSA in the builder's area. She had visited him, and he promised to refund the money.

Of course he didn't. I emailed the TSA but they could not even be bothered to return the email.

That was last year. This year a telephone bureau rang me up, explicitly pretending to be my double-glazing company. When I ran the legitimate company, they denied any links with the cold-caller at all.

I now tell any cold caller that I NEVER give out marketing information since I know it will be sent onto criminals.

No point in telling TSA or the UK Fraud-Line because they are completely useless. Roll on the General Election.

Froggitt

My current technique involves repeating "Have I asked you to telephone me?" every time its my turn to speak. Eventually they stop talking about my computer problems, or my satellite dish, or my double glazing and say no. I then say "Well please stop calling me".


Actually I lie. Todays call was an Indian telling me my computer was logging errors with Microsoft blah blah blah. When he stopped, I said "Do you really believe that pile of sh1te you just spouted at me, or were you asked to read it out"?

jamescl

NonGeographicalMan wrote: »

Interesting point that you had no such calls and I have had endless calls until eventually identifying https://www.media-tactics.co.uk as the apparent source of all the mischief I have been suffering (after which they have dried up after telling Media Tactics to expunge me from their lists).

I suppose trying to take people for £5,000 to £15,000 on a worthless investment presented as having the chance to double in a year will in reality be highly target at certain groups who they believe have the necessary money and interest in investing. So they will firstly target anyone who they know already has equity ISAs and secondly concentrate on calling postcodes identified as being in affluent areas where people have enough spare cash to get hoodwinked in to buying dodgy investments. So if you have never had ISAs and live in a council tower block in a dodgy part of suburban London they will not plague you with investment calls. They will however plague you with loan calls instead if you have ever borrowed before.

You seem unusual in living an area they do not target for the investment scams but having also never needed to borrow money. This is presumably the main reason why they leave you alone and only the PPI scammers are troubling you.

Please report https://www.media-tactics.co.uk to the ICO as well if they have been making unsolicited calls. I found out that they were the ones making automated calls to me with no caller ID.

I managed to get them to ring me back and asked the company who is operating the automated calling systems for them and it was media-tactics. I have made a complaint to their director Adam Mangan about their unlawful calls.

The link to report to the ICO is https://www.snapsurveys.com/swh/surveylogin.asp?k=138312369469

Lets stop these people and make sure the ICO takes action.

Danny_O

No one has to own that number "000000" anyone with a little voip equipment can change their caller ID to any number.

A part from this, some networks display "00000" instead of unknown

Hope this helps