Nuisance calls

[dilli-theclaw]

I notice all you did was fail to respond to my point. which is it's not always that simple. But that's fine as I have come to expecrt little more.

Anyway it is, as always, just my 2p worth.

[WHISTLED]

Sorry I thought I had by saying you didnt have to have credit in the first place.. So on those terms it can be that simple.

Things do go wrong when people have credit and its happening more now than ever, and I dont know the detail of your claim or the policy so will assume that you were mis-sold as many people are for payment protection. I worked in banking for a few years so I know how the policies work, and there has been quite a bit in the news recently.

My point remains the same that we make the choice to take credit and we know the risks, myself included. I personally have no credit that I cant cover in full if things go wrong, I pay my card/s off every month in full.

I know im lucky and not everyones the same, nor can they be but If I couldnt I wouldnt have a credit card etc. I have lots of friends and coleagues who have 10's of thousands of pounds in debt it would drive me mental.

Thats really all off topic though isnt it

[comnut]

I have been looking for a solution for this for some time.. and I think I have found some thing that might fit... Panasonic do a range of cordless phones, that will do things like 'call bar' & and 'night mode'.. this site has a 'quick features list' and usually a link to the manual!
http://www.home-phones.co.uk/home-ph...era-ansaphone/

or panasonic support here _ note they have a rather strange 'classification system' so you may have to look around a bit!
http://www2.panasonic.com/consumer-e...l.KX-TG9341T.H

The key thing is 'night mode' - you can set a time period for when the phone will NOT ring! - you can also set numbers from the phonebook to bypass this, for important calls..

[Cobbydaler]

Barclaycard have been fined £50,000 for flagrantly breaching the rules on silent calls.

Maximum should be higher than that IMO...

[Joe B]

As someone has stated, these nuisance calls are the equivalent of knocking on your door. More accurately, they are the equivalent of knocking on every door in the street and talking with only the first person who comes to the door. If you were to do that literally and repeatedly, you'd expect to be subject of an ASBO, if not a fine or, ultimately, a custodial sentence.

For those same and obvious reasons, ringing a lot of people's telephones all at once is indeed illegal. The trouble is, the "out of area" nuisance calls persist because they are beyond national jurisdiction. They are international crime.

Personally, I suspect that the telephone service providers are or could be technically capable of preventing the crime, and I'm sure that they will, just as soon as our national legislation obliges them to do so.

[Mick Fisher]

May be of interest??

http://www.truecall.co.uk/?gclid=CK-...FQSB1AodBAywwQ

This gadget was featured on my local radio priced £99.99.
It's new so the price may fall.

Looks like one of those "Don't know how I managed without" items.

Discuss? Anybody got one?

[Joe B]

I'll take my hat off to that as probably the most accurately targeted unsolicited sales presentation I've ever tolerated. It seems like an excellent use of counter-artificial-intelligence but the trouble, I wonder, is what will it do when I zap a caller from "out of area"? Will it subsequently prohibit all calls from overseas? That's the trouble with all the defence mechanisms. I'll ask and find out, and if I buy one then I'll come back here and recommend it to everyone.

[nutellajunkie]

its harassment in my opinion. All collections are they same.

---------- Post added at 12:54 ---------- Previous post was at 12:53 ----------

Originally Posted by Mick Fisher

May be of interest??

http://www.truecall.co.uk/?gclid=CK-...FQSB1AodBAywwQ

This gadget was featured on my local radio priced £99.99.
It's new so the price may fall.

Looks like one of those "Don't know how I managed without" items.

Discuss? Anybody got one?

Thats just some over strung anwering machine with an extra button and features.
I wouldnt pay for that.

[fudge]

I received an e mail from a freind yesterday funny enough just before i came across this post regarding calls where noone is there when answering the phone , this is what i was told to do to these calls

If you have a push button phone with a hash key button , when getting these calls press this button 7 times and this will confuse the system that has dialled you and will knock you of there list , i have not tried this yet but its worth a go ,
I was also told the reason why you get these calls is because thousands of numbers are fed into this system , auto dials the number then when you answer it the time , and the day is loged. Then another call will be made on the same day of another week and the same time by a real person because its thought that if you answered the phone say on monday 7pm you will be there next monday at 7pm so the person dialing is more likely to get an answer then not. Dont know if this is true but seems to make sence.