unsolicited calls from a carbon trader

bashful_lass

Im getting up to 4 calls a day from a company that lifted my details from a website. They have been calling from a prepared script trying to sell investment in carbon trading.

Despite asking them not to call and to remove my details they keep calling.

I even contacted the FSA who said carbon trading is unregulated.

The only thing I can do is give them a taste of their own medicine!

Any ideas?

chris_m

I get inundated likewise, with blasted PPI bar stewards calling.
The best solution I've found is a caller display unit and an answering machine, if I don't recognise the number I let the machine take it - they rarely leave a message.

On the odd occasion that I slip up and answer it, as soon as they mention PPI they get a very Anglo-Saxon reply and the phone gets hung up.

MoneySaverLog

Get a whistle and blow it down the phone.

bashful_lass

I would love them to get bombarded with calls so they can taste it themselves.

I asked to speak to a manager and they just mocked me.

Deneb

Answering machine and caller ID. We never answer the phone to a number that we don't recognise unless the caller starts to leave a message. We can then decide whether to pick up or not.

PlutoinCapricorn

Your post is another example of why these companies should be avoided: it is a demonstration of desperate/ill mannered they are.

Have you seen this thread?

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4076465


I got rid if my landline a few years ago, which stopped unsolicited calls, but many people recommend a machine that helps to filter them.

JohnRo

Going Ex-directory and using the TPS has helped me to cut down unsolicited calls to almost nothing. I did once inform an indian sounding caller that I was signed up to the TPS and they were breaking the law, got what sounded like a sincere apology and have never heard from them since.

Biggles

bashful_lass wrote: »

I even contacted the FSA who said carbon trading is unregulated.

True, but irrelevant if you register with the TPS http://www.tpsonline.org.uk/tps/index.html

27col

When I was a child a carbon trader was the local coal merchant. Next time they call order a few sacks of nutty slack.

MoneySaverLog

TPS does not cover everything. These consters use international call centres to circumvent the system. Sometimes they call do do surveys, the number of calls I get on my landline borders on harassment and I cannot seem to stop them.

I am both registered with the TPS and ex-directory but they still have my details. Narks me off that they don't listen when I tell them to take me off their lists, they just hang up and call back again later. :mad::mad::mad:

Next time they call they'll get the whistle.

grey_gym_sock

so the advice is to be less bashful