jfrf

Is there anything that I can do to stop incoming spam phone calls

Lately I seem to get automated messgaes calling me up advertising junk.

Or it can sometime be a real person calling me up from a company trying to sell me cr*p

AndyC_772

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Telephone Preference Service

mart360

only works for calls in the uk,

if you get the number they leave, you can refer to a company called

i beleive its called ictis

it has a web site, you can go to, they deal with web addresses & scam calls


Mart

AndyC_772

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ICSTIS

SJ_Skyline

Old Skool - use a pea whistle down the phone!

andypugh2000

Phone your service provider, complain about prank calls and ask for withheld number rejection, I have had none, yes none sales calls etc since having it over a year ago!!

andy

SCOsazOBY

get a porno dvd ready and put the volume on full blast whilst putting them on speaker phone to have a good listen! Works everytime

Lum

I have a great solution for telesales calls and would encourage everyone to do it. If we can get the whole country to do it then the telesales business would become unprofitable.
Simply ask them to hang on a minute, eg. because you left the fridge open.
Leave the phone off the hook and ignore it until they go away.
Remember the longer they are on the line the more it costs them.

I also once got one of those automated ones and at the end it had "press 1 to hear this message again" I found that you could press 1 at any time to restart, so I plugged my modem in wrote a quick script to dial 1 every 30 seconds and left it. It was still going an hour later.

IWatkins

Answer polietly and say "Yes, indeed, we were just thinking of buying double glazing". They will want to send someone round to give you a quote "Say, that is marvellous, please do so".

Then in a few days time when the guy turns up simply say "Have I wasted your time ? Oh good." and shut the door.

boomer

See The Register

mb

Lum

Maybe, but they still happen, usually advertising that you have won a prize just call this £1.50 a minute premium rate number to find out what it is, which is illegal anyway.
This is why I beleive it to be a moral duty to drag out the automated call for as long as possible using methods like the one I described above.