nonsense phone calls

[Matt_W]

Following on from a thread Gixxer started recently, i have been getting lots of nonsense phone calls and they are always when my baby is in bed so I have been dying to try out the Tom Maybe crime scene scenario. However talking to someone today there is a government backed web site called [URL="http://www.tpsonline.org.uk/tps/index.html"]TPS[/URL] i have registered and I’m am going to give it a try, I read it won’t take full effect for 28 days but even taking the p!!s out of the people on the phone I am starting to get annoyed, has anyone heard of this before?

[LaurenceGough]

We're on the TPS but we still get the rubbish Microsoft sh%te.

Best thing to do is phone your phone provider and ask them to bar withheld numbers, but I can't believe most charge for this. See if you can bargain with them as you're getting spam calls.

[Matt_W]

I always get someone phone and ask for me Taylor, when I say I'm not mr Taylor that say it was me that wanted anyway, tonight I had someone from "British consumer" he could not even say British consumer

[Guest]

I had Anonymous Call Reject on for a while.. huge pain. Doctor can't call, solicitor, can't remember who else but they all have valid reasons for not presenting caller ID (in their opinion). Took it back off in the end. Also seem to get a lot of international / "out of area" spam calls which TPS won't be able to protect you from. Biggest pain for me is SMS spam which no-one's interested in protecting you against.

We just default to not answering the phone these days, they'll leave a message if they care..

[Matt_W]

Thats what my mother in law dose not a bad idea, it wouldn't be so bad if my mobile phone signal wasn't so bad people don't want to phone it

[Andy from Sandy]

I believe all cold calling companies have a number that you can ring so you then no longer appear on their list. You should be told what it is if you ask.

[url=http://www.optoutuk.com/legal.asp?screen_id=how]Unwanted Phone Calls » Opt-Out | Stop Unwanted Cold Calls » Register Now[/url]

If when you get these calls there is a long silence before you hear anyone get the company details and report them to Ofcom

[url=http://consumers.ofcom.org.uk/tell-us/telecoms/privacy/silent-call/]Ofcom | Silent calls[/url]

[helikam3d]

I to have TPS had it for years was great to start but been getting them calls again so contacted TPS to find out if we need to re register and was told get the company name and report them back to TPS and they would look into it but we just ignor the out of area calls now.Or anwser and dont say a word they soon put the phone down

[xygax]

Have been a mamber of TPS for years.... about two months ago BT phoned trying to flog me broadband... I politly asked for the guys name call center location and telephone number and then informed him that the details he had just given me were going stright to offcom as he personally hadnt taken the time to research the "dont call this grumpy Fcuk" list and he was personally liabale for making me waste an hour of my time writing about him to offcom and would he like to pay for that time now or when offcom told him to.....

Crying it to his beer... his supervisor called me back half an hour later and he had a load as well......

Reported to offcom... They wont call me again

Steve

[pchristy]

I joined TPS a few years back, and after a few weeks the nuisance calls stopped almost completely. I still get the odd one - usually from outside the UK, but as soon as I mention TPS, they can't get off the line fast enough!