Does anybody know what this number is 01113

david39

The way to deal with these calls is not to speak to them.
The calls are to get information from you, especially your name and address and, usually, financial status or if you have had any accidents recently - you can guess why! The purpose is to eventually scam you out of money, possibly by ways other than over the telephone. At worst, if you give them enough information, they can steal your identity.

If you talk to them, they will keep ringing you until, in anger, you accidentally blurt out bits of the info they are looking for. They love you to ask to speak to their supervisor (the guy on the next phone) who, because he is a "supervisor" can ask you for even more info to help him handle your complaint. They will also log your number on a database, as a person who responds to this type of call and it will get sold to other companies doing the same thing and they will start ringing you as well.

The rule is not to respond to them at all - put the phone down without speaking and, if the facility is offered, never ring them back. The only calls that are a waste of time to them are the ones where nobody speaks to them, that's why they will stop ringing eventually.

Whatever any one says on this thread, OFCOM and TPS are powerless in this - when it gets too hot for them, the perpetrators just move on and start again with another name and from a different address but with the same database of phone numbers.

NonGeographicalMan

An interesting and informed post David.

Do you work for Ofcom or the ICO by any chance. Or alternatively perhaps you would for a telecoms company?

Aiadi

cally6008 wrote: »

people look at the techie forum to get help and advise on things they dont know about

And my point is exactly that people should not give stupid advice about something they know nothing about or have never used in their lives.

david39

NonGeographicalMan :

No, I'm not connected with the telecoms industry.
I was just another victim of this annoying type of call for many months. I could not understand why, when giving them the brush-off on several occasions, they still kept calling back, and were often rude to me - that's not the usual way to gain a customer. The call frequency increased the more I grumbled to them and there are several thousands of posts on assorted websites complaining of this approach, so it is clearly a deliberate ploy.

I then realised that there must be an alternative motive for the calls and decided the only logical explanation was the one I have given above. After a few weeks of picking up the calls but not speaking to them, the frequency slowly diminished. I just get the odd one now, about once every couple of months or so - I treat it in the same manner.

dollydee

just received two calls from 01113 within 10 minutes. Ignored the first call but answered the second, not saying anything at all. There was a slight delay then a woman with an Indian accent said hello and I ignored her. She said hello several times, getting more and more exasperated at lack of response, then she said,' why can't people say hello when you ring them' and then disconnected.

well, she shouldn't have rung my number.

Bernie

I got mine on a special offer with the SD card of software to recall messages, transfer to your PC and other stuff. It was still expensive but that's because it is the only show in town.

We got it because the wife received one of those speculative but bogus "You owe us money" letters. We saw, through the net, that if the debt agency gets hold of your number, you end up getting endless, bothersome calls. During our research, we saw an article on the Truecall and decided to get one instead of a conventional answer-phone.

After a few months of standard letter writing, the debt agency went away...

The Truecall box is pretty easy to use and once you've "starred" all your regular callers (as they call or bulk upload by cut-n-paste from Outlook to the client software as I did), the Truecall unit becomes invisible to starred callers.

The "#" list can automatically turned away callers with a polite refusal or even a diplomatic continuously played ringing tone (to them not you sitting oblivious next to a non-ringing phone).

All calls are buffered in real time so if you decided you need a record of the call in progress , you simply press the button during the call to drop the whole conversation, start to finish, onto the SD card.

The box can also block calls during user-selected silent hours, screen out machine callers through requesting a random button press on cue blah, blah, blah.

Yep! It was not cheap but has proved very useful judging by the list of unknown numbers we can see listed as hung-up on the internet client software.

If you need to manage inbound access to your phone number, this kit is the one for you...

:beer:

BillTrac

I have got "Mike" from Lifestyle Research on the phone at the moment. Well he was when I said I had to get a pen....5 minutes ago.

I am working downstairs and our only landline is upstairs. If I can be a***d to climb the stairs again I might see if he wants to wait while I find some paper..:rotfl:

Nope just checked...he's gone. How rude....

bargainhunter65

This company are now calling from 0206 888 4362 - A woman with an Indian/Asian accent rang and asked if I ate at Indian restaurants. I told her I didn't answer questionnaires and surveys over the phone, she then said something that was unclear and I asked her to repeat herself and she said something about how can she help me if I wont answer her questions. I told her I didnt need her help. She got very shirty so just put the phone down on her.
Apparantly this company also ring people in the US too, from the number 206 888 4362. Scum