Anti-Marketing Group...Genuine?

cd1951

I today had a call from them. It caught me a bit 'unawares', but seemed to be plausible, as there is so much regulation going on around UK & EU these days!

I opted to join for £4.00 per month-but only for one month, as the paperwork takes 14-28 days to be processed and sent!!

I have read through all the posts listed on here and I have not had many unsolicited calls thee past few days.

For a test, I gave them an email address to 'monitor' which is one that I use for everything until I know that the sender is legitimate then I transfer them to my 'real' one - so that will be interesting to see if anything happens on that, as at least 100+ emails a day are junk from the USA!!

I paid for the one month service with a prepaid credit card, that has all of £5.45 on it and expires next month!! Needless to say, I will not be renewing the prepaid card!!

Will post back here in a months time!!

LeonKowalski

I've had the Anti-Marketing Group trying to sell me a service for a £4 "administartion fee".
Me - "Aren't you doing exactly what you are purporting to prevent".
Her - "No we're not selling"
Me - "I'm registered with TPS - aren't you supposed to check their database before you ring me"
Her - "The TPS is only 54% effective" (don't I know it!)
I've lodged a complaint with TPS but they have no legal teeth

josh_security

hi peeps im new on here, im on here to sort out ppi. I had a call from these guys and yes i signed up, this was about 6 months ago, the calls stopped but then started again a month or so ago. i just gave them a ring and spoke to some guy(can remember his name) he then said he would look into it. i asked what can they do and he said they will find out who is contacting me and stop them. now i dont know how it was done and to be honest i dont care all i know is they sent me a letter saying they sorted it and a week later the stupid sales company had stopped and i have had nothing since. i mentioned about this forum, they said all customers must call them if your still getting calls. i hope this helps anyone who is already a customer. i work nights so i can now sleep fine during the day lol.

Heinz

cd1951 wrote: »

I today had a call from them. It caught me a bit 'unawares', but seemed to be plausible, as there is so much regulation going on around UK & EU these days!

I opted to join for £4.00 per month-but only for one month, as the paperwork takes 14-28 days to be processed and sent!!

I have read through all the posts listed on here and I have not had many unsolicited calls thee past few days.

For a test, I gave them an email address to 'monitor' which is one that I use for everything until I know that the sender is legitimate then I transfer them to my 'real' one - so that will be interesting to see if anything happens on that, as at least 100+ emails a day are junk from the USA!!

I paid for the one month service with a prepaid credit card, that has all of £5.45 on it and expires next month!! Needless to say, I will not be renewing the prepaid card!!

Will post back here in a months time!!

It's two months now ........

So what can you report?

DorsetDave2

I have just come home from Work and my wife told me she has just given the Anti Marketing Group her bank details.

The trouble is my wife has had a Stroke in the past and is very vulnerable to cold callers (and we have been getting an increasing amount recently despite being ex-directory and with the TPS.) I think it might be to do with using the Internet to buy goods more - we are always careful to tick the boxes to say we don't want our details passed on to a 3rd Party but obviously some sites are'nt complying

In the past we whilst I was out we have had our energy supplier changed, our drive cleaned, vases and items bought in our house and umpteen other things where they have conned my wife. I am at my wits end as to know what to do. I have talked to to our phone supplier (talktalk) to no avail. Is there nobody prepared to take action on cold callers. I am not confident the police are interested either.

DorsetDave2

We got onto our bank (HSBC) straightaway who have cancelled the debit card my wife gave to them. It means waiting 3 to 5 days for a new card but the bank said nothing could be taken off the cancelled card now.

Herongull

DorsetDave2 wrote: »

I have just come home from Work and my wife told me she has just given the Anti Marketing Group her bank details.

The trouble is my wife has had a Stroke in the past and is very vulnerable to cold callers (and we have been getting an increasing amount recently despite being ex-directory and with the TPS.) I think it might be to do with using the Internet to buy goods more - we are always careful to tick the boxes to say we don't want our details passed on to a 3rd Party but obviously some sites are'nt complying

In the past we whilst I was out we have had our energy supplier changed, our drive cleaned, vases and items bought in our house and umpteen other things where they have conned my wife. I am at my wits end as to know what to do. I have talked to to our phone supplier (talktalk) to no avail. Is there nobody prepared to take action on cold callers. I am not confident the police are interested either.

I'm really sorry to hear this. I suspect most of the victims of the cold callers/scams are the vulnerable.

We were getting several nuisance calls a day and got so fed up we decide to get a call screener device (Truecall). It is a one-off cost of around £90.

Truecall is brilliant - all the junk calls are blocked, but it lets all the genuine callers through. Now when the phone rings, I always want to answer it.

Given all the problems you are having, it should be a good investment.

Of course we shouldn't have to pay for a gadget to avoid junk calls, the law should be protecting us from these sharks, but legislation doesn't seem to be coming and many of them originate from outside the UK

jordanchaos

Just got a threatening email from them to the business I work for, full of spelling and grammar problems.



I have a feeling they are going to try and do an up-sell to me, watch this space.