You've won! type of nuisance calls

bridiej

I tend to leave the phone off the hook until the message has finished in the hope it is costing the company.......

pricefighter

bridiej wrote:

Is there no way of stopping these calls?

The reason i asked is because i have been getting them as well.

I was doing a bit of searching around about them,and dug up some very useful information about them on Google Groups.This tells you whose behind them,how to complain,and how to annoy them etc.There are three seperate threads there.

To find it go to Google Groups Sign in/ Or Join and Sign In.Then go to the UK Telecom Group.Then search for and read the following.

1. Just won cruise phone message.(Dated 3/5/05)
2. Pennyphone and Luxury Florida Cruise.(Dated 11/5/05)
3. Latest Florida Vacation Phone Spammer.(Dated27/5/05)

Happy reading.

MrSmartprice

Caller Display is quite useful for sifting out these calls. Sometimes they show "withheld" while others show "unavailable" indicating an overseas call.

The advantage is that you can decide to ignore all withheld calls, or pick up without speaking. As for being ex-directory, it isn't much help where they have a machine dialling random numbers in turn. It is certainly time that such calls were regulated, and there was a way of rejecting them automatically.

bridiej

Caller display no good for me as I run a business from home, plus several family members have automatically witheld numbers....

The calls are No. 3 - latest Florida one. Will check out the google groups over the weekend

oldagetraveller

Since my now removed Onetel answering service went belly up and advised every caller that "the number you are trying to call is not listed!!!" I've not had one of these calls. It used to be evey day and evening I'd "won a holiday" or a "cash prize" - marvellous

[Deleted User]

Since posting here I've had another THREE today, and one yesterday.

Heinz

Deleted_User wrote:

Since posting here I've had another THREE today, and one yesterday.

Whilst you're waiting for your TPS registration to go through, try leaving the phone to ring a full 4 times before answering - with any luck the others who answer will satisfy the autodialler and it'll stop before you pick up.

ronnie_2

What can i do to complain about these, i dont normally bother too much with them but i didnt get in to 3 am this morning, when i was awoke at 9am by the phone ringing - answered it and all i heard was some !!!!!! computer voice telling me "congrats you have been selected plz press 7 to hear what you have won"

Now isnt there some sort of law as to what time these buggers are allowed to phone at, i tried doing 1471 with no joy!!! i want to find out the company behind its name so i can track down the owner/directors and give them a taste of there own medicne.

Rant over, am going back to bed