Unwanted Calls

[jims-terrano]

So ok you know what this is about, I'm having a rant again!

OK I registered with TPS years ago and hardly give out my phone numbers and email addresses. Though I suspect my children are not so careful. Over the last year or so the phone calls and texts have started becoming more frequent and in fairness not very many as I know some people are pestered to death but just the same I want to get rid of them.
I'm pretty convinced the local Skoda didn't take a blind bit of notice when I told them direct that I do not want them to pass my details on to third parties and I do not want their marketing either. I also suspect that insurance companies are the same and incidentally I only called two for the project truck one of whom often pops up on car forums, nuf said. I also know that TPS have no powers over foreign call centres.

Has anyone got any ideas to cut these calls and texts out?

 

[don simon]

I just cut them off mid sentence.

I had a guy offering me compensation for my accident of three years ago. he had no details of the accident ( I had my last accident in the early 90s), nor details of the insurer, nor of me apparently except my number. But if I gave him my personal details he would chase it up.... Bless him...

 

[jims-terrano]

Sadly cutting them off doesn't remove your number or stop them from getting it. Although apparently some numbers are just randomly generated by more flippin technology:doh

 

[don simon]

I only use the mobile and don't pick up unrecognised numbers, unless I'm expecting a call from an unknown source, hence picking up for Mr Dippy Accident Claim Guy. If it's important, they'll leave a message.
I guess it's just something that we have to live with, unfortunately. The other side is that legit business callers are just some poor minimum wage sap who's just doing the job they're told to do.
Spam emails from interior design companies is an all together different matter!!!

 

[panelbeater]

i must be lucky as i do not get any.
no home phone plugged in and just use my 2 mobile sims.

 

[jonela]

I did read about a guy who got a premium number or something and every time someone rang him it cost them, and the longer he kept them on the more he got, now that's pay back:lol

 

[don simon]

Could try this http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/change-Pppppppppprice-Tim-pays-stop-cold-callers/story-16227434-detail/story.html a bit extreme though

 

[quixote]

I just hang up. Screw being polite.

Or you could try this . . . .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBfsdkGeMc8

 

[macabethiel]

B.T. call minder is the answer for a land line with them. When you ring someone with this installed the system asks the caller to state their name if it is not on your list of those you have authorised they do not get connected.

Plus a load of other features a mate of mine had it and I have to state my surname first for it to ring them. If you are not on the list I think it goes to a type of ansaphone.

 

[emjaybee]

I just hang up. Screw being polite.

Or you could try this . . . .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBfsdkGeMc8

I tend to just give them a string of foul mouthed abuse until they hang up. I find it immensely cathartic!

 

[AlexD333]

I get many aggravating calls, most recently yesterday in fact I got this number, they called 3 times in a row 0002038072090

many witheld numbers too...

there was a mobile phone app called phone ninja that sorted all this out for you.

took a bit of setting up tho. if connected to the net it would tell you who was calling too (eg shops) :thumb2 example - opticians calling me, I did not have number saved in phone but It came up on screen with location and company during the ringing, quite clever :naughty

 

[jims-terrano]

I just hang up. Screw being polite.

Or you could try this . . . .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBfsdkGeMc8

That was funny!

 

[jims-terrano]

I guess it's come to my attention more today because im off work now until the new year. Think landline is more frustrating because I can't tell who's number is calling. Don't think virgin on the ridiculous has any call monitoring stuff like bt.

 

[Sweety]

We get loads:doh but the biggest problem is so many companies are selling off our details or companies are using auto dialers:augie i've threatened legal action against a few companies that have called & after a while they have stopped calling but not all so they end up getting some abuse down the phone or depending on how we feel we waste their time & wind them up, the Son had one company on the phone for 20 mins & told them he lived in a caravan (they phoned the house number) in the end they hung up after he shouted "you can't put the baby in the blender & put the f**king hammer down:lol:lol:lol

 

[kitchenman]

I bought a gadget from Maplin CPR Callblocker for my landline
Also on my mobile I have an app called Truecaller, this is the canine gonads or dogs bollocks if you like, anyway it gives you the name of the caller and the option to put them on a black list, they also do something similar for texts. They seem to have a huge database of numbers

 

[jims-terrano]

Now that sounds good, it'll even stop the mother in law from calling as she has her number withheld :augie

 

[quixote]

Now that sounds good, it'll even stop the mother in law from calling

That's not a bad thing :lol

I hated mine with a vengeance. She was quite simply the most stupid woman I've ever been unlucky enough to meet. I mean really, bovinely stupid

 

[nemofish2000]

B.T. call minder is the answer for a land line with them. When you ring someone with this installed the system asks the caller to state their name if it is not on your list of those you have authorised they do not get connected.

Plus a load of other features a mate of mine had it and I have to state my surname first for it to ring them. If you are not on the list I think it goes to a type of ansaphone.

My landline phone has a thing called call guardian which is exactly the same, if its a computer generated call it doesnt even get through to answer phone and all the phone does is flash a couple of times. Its a god send.

 

[briggie]

give the phone to one of your kids , and tell them its santa :augie:lol

 

[jims-terrano]

Haha just taken a call from Skoda dealer asking about their service, wife only just picked car up and hasn't even got home. So I said I was sick of their phone calls:lol:lol:lol
The bloke didn't take the hint and proceeded to try and sell me another car:doh