In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Susan Reishus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >In the US, it took my calls from constant to nothing.
>From the calls we've had recently, coming up on the phone as "International" for the incoming number, and always from someone with an American accent, invariably asking about loans and mortgage transfers (we don't want one and haven't got a mortgage to transfer), I think they have given up on the US and started bugging the UK instead. Being foreign, they don't have to comply with our TPS listing (which has stopped all the annoying UK based calls) as far as I can see. Eventually, after I complained to the caller that they were harassing me, they gave up - but this was after several calls when they had been asked to stop calling us. Last weekend (Friday/Saturday) we had seven calls from the same number - obviously a call centre - with the system giving them barely enough time to ask to speak to... before it hung up - something to do with grants, but heaven knows what for - they wouldn't answer my question as to who was calling, and being a call centre, were always engaged if you tried to ring back (the number did come up on the phone, and was somewhere in Manchester) to find out who they were. We haven't heard from them since, though, so they must have given up. At least with caller display on the phone you have the choice to ignore numbers you don't know, if it is important they'll leave a message. -- Jane Partridge To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
