If I get one more 'International' call.......

aliasojo

:mad: Sick to the back teeth of international calls. So far this week I've 'won' 2 holidays, had the offer to fix my Windows pc, asked if my mobile contract needs updating (don't even have one) and I've just had the phone put down on me after answering 'no' when the bloke asked if I received Sky through a dish. Rude git!

Isn't it about time measures were put in place to deal with international calls in the same way we can register with the TPS for UK calls?

davidlizard

We use an answerphone to screen all of our calls these days - the message tells the person to start talking and we will pick it up if we are around and want to talk to them. If its a sales call, we simply ignore it, however it seems most hang up rather than start talking anyway.

TPS is fairly toothless, and telemarketers know it. An MP asked a question in the house of commons in 2009 as to how many companies have been prosecuted and it was something like zero prosecutions and 5 warnings.

peter_the_piper

Our latest ones are for business loans. I just say we are rich enough to not need a loan and put the phone down.

PhylPho

There's a blitz of them at the moment. We're getting three a day. They're all caller ID 'International' and when the answerphone kicks in, no-one speaks and the line disconnects.

The outfit responsible for the random UK phone polling seems to be pursuing the ancient scam of a free holiday / free cruise whatever.

Given all the advances in technology, how come there's no way for British Telecom to somehow identify and black-list this stuff at source? Or at least let subscribers have some sort of filter that only allows incoming International calls from numbers already in their phone memory / phone contacts book?

As for Telephone Preference Service, it's as useful as a chocolate fireguard in dealing with scams like this.