Uptick in nuisance calls
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Has the number of robodiallers ignoring the rules increased recently.
I'm registered with the TPS and for a while the number of robodiallers playing recorded messages was maybe 1 a week. Now I often get several in a day, including one at 2:30 a.m. last week.
I also seem to be getting 2 or 3 calls a week where I can hear a live mike, not a robot, but they hang up as soon as I say hello.
I'm registered with the TPS and for a while the number of robodiallers playing recorded messages was maybe 1 a week. Now I often get several in a day, including one at 2:30 a.m. last week.
I also seem to be getting 2 or 3 calls a week where I can hear a live mike, not a robot, but they hang up as soon as I say hello.
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In some sectors, licenced firms are not allowed to pound the streets and bang on doors to drum up business as it causes too much nuisance, but the regulator allows them to call people at random looking for new leads.
What is needed is a ban on use of the telephone for direct marketing. It is well within the power of the various sector regulators to do this. And, in many of the problem sectors, the sector regulator has the power to suspend or remove the firms licence to trade if they are suspected or found to be breaking the rules.
The current nuisance calls regime, which sees the ICO penalise a small number of firms several years after tens or hundreds of millions of calls have been made, is the wrong approach. Especially as the vast majority of the penalties have never been paid.
It's an irritant, not a major problem and the landline is hardly used any more. I can't really justify buying a new phone, which will see very little use.
http://www.unknownphone.com/search.php?num=015222300225
We could not distinguish anything the Mumbler said, just a growling, crackling bunch of sylables and sounds. Not a fax: I know what they sound like. I told them that I was looking for the company name.
It was a surprise, because it's a long time since we had any nuisance calls. I don't get mad (OH does) I try to get even, if I can't I just forget it: life is too short.
a much bigger hammer.
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It might help if you told us...........
I'm not asking for help, I just wanted to compare observations to see if anyone else has noticed an increase or is it just me?
That's put the mockers on it then !!:o
The number has too many digits to be a valid number.