Caribbean Cruise

Al_Mac

Got home and found a message, automated, telling me I'd won a free cruise:D

No catches:rolleyes: apparently.

Eargerly waiting to ring them on Monday.:rolleyes:

TPS still working then:mad:

:beer:

Nelski

WOW what a coincidence - I won one too Al.
:j

Al_Mac

If enough of us have won, party.;)

beckie

I won about three of them last week!
i signed up to the tps, so hopefully when the 28days are up, i'll be rid of all the spam phone calls. They do my head in!

keralaguy

I signed up with TPS 3 months back but still keep getting calls from Talk Talk, Kitchens Direct and Onetel. The thing is even after telling them a clear NO they keep calling after a week or so. Dont know how to get rid of these calls.

Nafe_2

Do you guys have caller ID? If so, are they calling from International numbers?

I was inundated with crappy cold-calls and signed up to the TPS, unfortunately it only affected about half since so many are calling from abroad and apparently the TPS can't do anything about that. It got so bad that I called BT and had a go at some poor lass working the call centre there - they can't do anything either

rogue_element

I guess you could block all numbers from abroad and only allow certain ones to call you e.g. relatives etc (ask BT)??

Nafe_2

Nope - Tried that, BT can't block international numbers. I've no idea why - they can identify them as international for caller ID so why can't they block it? Bloody annoying really

zzzLazyDaisy

Is there a way of blocking calls where the number is with-held? A lot of these spam calls leave no number, so that might stop them. When I was with NTL it was just a case of punching a code into the handset, but I don't know how to do it on a BT line.

jo_b_2

zzzLazyDaisy wrote:

Is there a way of blocking calls where the number is with-held? A lot of these spam calls leave no number, so that might stop them. When I was with NTL it was just a case of punching a code into the handset, but I don't know how to do it on a BT line.

You can set this up with BT. Just phone up Customer Services and they will do it free of charge. (Unless it's changed very recently.)

The only problem is that most genuine companies are withold numbers as well (because of the switchboard sytstem.)

I had a friend who didn't get to know that she'd got a new job for about a week because the company couldn't get through to her phone as she'd barred witheld numbers!

Turning_into_scrooge

Nafe wrote:

Nope - Tried that, BT can't block international numbers. I've no idea why - they can identify them as international for caller ID so why can't they block it? Bloody annoying really

I have choose to refuse on my phone but the problem is you can only block up to 10 numbers , but its great for stopping credit card company's chasing for payments when they insist they havent received the 3 letters sent out to request they dont phone and write instead