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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.
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  • Browntoa
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    get one of these Bt phones in this thread


    https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5565497
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  • Ian011
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    edited 23 September 2017 at 7:43PM
    It is clear that all the various so-called "crackdowns" on nuisance calls has had no effect whatsoever. Despite numerous rule changes, the number of nuisance calls continues to rise.

    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.
  • mgfvvc
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    Browntoa wrote: »
    get one of these Bt phones in this thread

    https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5565497

    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.
  • Robisere
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    We had a "mumbler" yesterday, from 015222300225. That's a Lincoln number and I do live in Lincolnshire, although way to the east near the coast. unkownphone.com records this here:

    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.
    I think this job really needs
    a much bigger hammer.
  • worried_jim
    worried_jim Posts: 11,631 Forumite
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    Get rid of your landline- it's bliss!
  • Ihate the message about the government initiative for blah! blah! and to so called energy companies who keep annoying me even though I'm not a home owner any more and also TP registered.
    xx
  • OP who is your landline provider ??
    It might help if you told us...........
  • mgfvvc
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    OP who is your landline provider ??
    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?
  • brewerdave
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    Touchwood....we have had considerably less junk calls of any description in the last couple of months -some weeks none at all!!
    That's put the mockers on it then !!:o
  • Ian011
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    Robisere wrote: »
    We had a "mumbler" yesterday, from 015222300225. That's a Lincoln number.
    No it is not.

    The number has too many digits to be a valid number.
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