Unknown/Private calls?

[beefface 10]

Seem to be getting a few missed calls registered as 'Unknown number', what's the difference between 'Unknown' and 'Private' numbers?

[SHEFCYCLREP 10]

I think if it comes up unknown then the person calling u is pressing 141 first to keep the number private

[Lobos 10]

I get a lot of them, apparently a lot of these pestering PPI and sales and phishing company's have a sort of random phone number ringing system they just keep dialing the phone numbers until someone answers...

[Mecky 10]

I get a lot of them, apparently a lot of these pestering PPI and sales and phishing company's have a sort of random phone number ringing system they just keep dialing the phone numbers until someone answers...

 

It's called an autodialer ... ask Homer Simpson

[Jeffrey Shaw 90]

I get a lot of them, apparently a lot of these pestering PPI and sales and phishing company's have a sort of random phone number ringing system they just keep dialing the phone numbers until someone answers...

Try the Telephone Preference Service? It's free! See http://www.tpsonline.org.uk/tps/index.html

[kidneystone 23]

I kept getting call after call from Market Research (http://www.marketreseach.co.uk) and on every occasion I picked the phone up it went dead. I got so fed up with it that I called them several times and then hung up when they answered. On the final time I rung I spoke to the lady on the phone and asked her to help me with some market research. I told her I was doing some research in to companies that cold call people and then hang up, just like the company she works for. It was then she realised I was having a pop at her and her company. I told her I was registered with the TPS and that she was to remove my phone number from their list which she said she would do.

According to their web site they are allowed to call people who are ex-directory or registered with the TPS

[ANGELFIRE1 10]

Try the Telephone Preference Service? It's free! See http://www.tpsonline.org.uk/tps/index.html

 

We "subscribe" to the telephone preference service. It's complete crap, and just does not work, for us anyway.

 

Angel1

[dosxuk 10]

Try the Telephone Preference Service? It's free! See http://www.tpsonline.org.uk/tps/index.html

 

Does nothing for the autodialers. Or the companies based abroad.

[Jeffrey Shaw 90]

Some telecom suppliers (e.g. TalkTalk) offer an option to block:

a. all anonymised calls; and

b. customer-specified numbers.

[Mr Bloom 10]

We "subscribe" to the telephone preference service. It's complete crap, and just does not work, for us anyway.

 

Angel1

 

It's only as good as the people who subscribe to it are at policing it. Report offenders and if they have been found to offend regularly they will be dealt with.

[Obelix 11]

According to their web site they are allowed to call people who are ex-directory or registered with the TPS

 

Yup they can. But once you tell them you consider such calls to be harrassing you they have to stop or they fall foul of the harrassment act. That stops them dead.

[Mecky 10]

I answered one today, apparently I was in a car crash, suffered whiplash on a bus (I'm not from Birmingham) and hurt my arm in an accident (today). Unfortunately the bloke on the other end of the phone couldn't tell me how I'd hurt my arm