stop cold calls completely

jassi_9

is there anyway to stop these idiots calling my house?

just had a london 0207 number call not say nothing, rang back and its playing an answer phone messege with sum guy saying another number "0870 bla bla bla" ......obviously some kind of scam

ive just registered with tps, again, but are there any other ways?

Heinz

Why on earth did you ring back?

jassi_9

lol its only a 0207 number, im pretty sure they cant charge excessive rates from landline numbers anyway, worst it can be is 15 p a minute or something, cus they did it twice i thought, lets see there game, i imagine they want u 2 dial the 0870 number left on the answer phone and so on, to increase profits

i will check my bill when it comes, too see what the charges were, and let u know

anybody hear dof this call blocker thing u can buy? its £55 but apparently blocks everything and anything unwanted, its on the "tps" website, so it cant really be another scam, or a complete waste of money, what u think?

mr_fishbulb

jassi_9 wrote:

anybody hear dof this call blocker thing u can buy? its £55 but apparently blocks everything and anything unwanted, its on the "tps" website, so it cant really be another scam, or a complete waste of money, what u think?

How much are unwanted calls costing you? £0, unless you call back

Either way it's a lot less than £55.

jassi_9

i agree with your costing figures, but its unbelievable how many calls my house gets a day!!!!!

honestly its a nitemare, i must be on every list there is in the world

£55 for total piece and quiet, dont sound to bad to me!!

Rex_Mundi

TPS has stopped us from getting calls nearly every night, to one every few months now (and as soon as I mention TPS, they normally hang up).

If you are getting so many despite being on TPS. You should review how or where you are giving your info out.

Quite a few of the freebies offers I see on this site have no privacy policy in place on the site. This is not only illegal in the UK, but gives the site owners a carte blanche to do what they want with any info you give them (including selling your details to as many marketing companies as they like).

I never sign up for anything that doesn't specify exactly what they do with the info you input and/or offers an optout from further contact. By being a bit careful where I give my info out, I get hardly any spam/marketing calls/junk mail.

Heinz

Same here.

Also, I enter one digit wrong in the telephone number box by mistake if I can't see any genuine reason for them wanting that information (I make sure I enter a number which doesn't exist though so as not to inflict cold callers on someone else).