I recently asked my ex-directory neighbours about cold telephone calls
and it seems they get more than I do. (Their most recent was the
'Microsoft' 'your computer has a virus' scam.)
There's a telltale pause when we answer the phone. Often we are:
addressed by name; asked 'How are you today?'; and told that the caller
is ringing 'from the UK'.
My usual response is to say: "I don't believe you", before putting the
phone down.
(We are registered with TPS.)
Tony Wood
On 27/01/13 19:19, Keith Edmunds wrote:
On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 15:56:41 +0000, b...@fineby.me.uk said:
So, if the callers are UK based they can be penalised.
But they seldom are. Reporting companies to the TPS is like reporting them
to /dev/null. Unfortunately, the legislation doesn't provide for
compensation to the callee, which might change things.
I once sued Everest double glazing over repeated marketing calls to a
TPS-registered number.
When we moved house in 2007, we had a new telephone number. We made it
ex-directory: no marketing calls at all. Or many others, come to that.
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