stopping cold calling

[el_oso]

I'm off work sick today. It's only half past 12 and we have no less than 11 phone calls asking if we want to buy windows, or have a new conservatory etc. I'm pretty fucked off by it. Anyone else get this many calls? I always ask to be removed from the calling list. I'm reading through some of the literature on the ofcom website about it. registering with the TPS seems like the only thing to do. Anyone else registered with the TPS? Was it effective?
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[Tracey Suntan-King]

We've had the same thing since we moved. Whoever had the phone number allocated to us here seems to be on every single cold caller's list.

We told BT who gave us caller display for free, so we can screen calls, but a lot of the callers withhold their numbers. For these, if it's a recorded message there should be an opt-out option, (i.e., press 9 if you do not wish to be called again) so,listen to the message then press the opt-out number they give you. If it's a person, interrupt them and say you do not give permission for your number to remain on their data base and they must remove it.

Register with TPS today which will take a month or so to be effective at all.

We did all of the above and are down to one or two calls a month now.

Utter ball-ache getting to this point tho.

Never thought of the whistle solution.....
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[P.addy]

I tend to keep them busy, I trolled various people before because I have nothing better to do.

However, whistles work.

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[Rogerborg]

TPS registered, I still get "surveys".

Like "Would you like to buy double glazing?"

Depending on my mood:

Tell them I need to get a pen. Get a beer.
Tell them that my call handling fee is £35 for the first 5 minutes and 5 per minute thereafter and ask them to provide their accounts payable details if they agree to those terms.
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[doggone]

TPS works (poorly) on UK only, a lot are from abroad now.
there's one has been trying to ring several times recently starts 001 (number not witheld) googling the number suggests all kinds of scammery even those windows malware callers from it.

But so far the line always goes dead when you pick up.
Immensely annoying when you are busy and drop everything to answer.
Consider they are probably placing 100s of calls per hour and it amounts to abuse of the phone system however you look at it.
Surely to be worth their while some people must actually buy or be taken in?

[CBFcarl]

I've always found that the TPS works. Their limitation is that they can only block callers from within the UK.

I recommend something called silentgard -https://www.silentgard.com/index2.html

It works by detecting those callcentres that call you before putting an advisor on. As soon as it detects that silence, it blocks them (or so I understand).

Finally, your line provider should be able to offer a service that allows you to block certain numbers. It could be called "Choose To Refuse" or Last Caller Barring. Every provider has a nuisance calls department, have a chat with them.

PS - TPS now cover mobile phones as well

[Richy CB1000]

Truecall machine, heard so many good reviews but they're pricey.

I like the idea of the "Whisper and Shield" option, I'm on the verge next time a spare £100 comes around.

[Marmalade]

I find cutting in, tell them to take your number off their fucking list you stupid cunt and don't call me again or i will hunt you down and pull your fucking teeth out with pliers has reduced my intake of spam calls.

I used to feel guilty about saying no thanks, goodbye, now i have no guilt going full retard on them.
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[daverave999]

I got given a work mobile for the job I started in November and used to get an annoying number of cold callers. TPS has sorted it for me...
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[Furrybiker]

We have a phone with caller ID and an answer phone that is always on. Number withheld is a pain but friends know to speak and we answer.

The phone is a Panasonic cordless, it has a function to bar callers, if you bar them all you get is "ting" silence.

I check the number on https://whocallsme.com/ and if its not something I want I bar them, now down to a couple of calls a month.

In our last place we used to get loads of calls I just told them that Mr Furrybiker had died, it stopped most of the calls, but the problem wasnt as bad then.

[chris-red]

I read about a guy who got a premium rate home phone number, he said it was pulling in a not insignificant amount of money from cold callers a month!
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[pepperami]

Got a cold call today, asking about PPI and if I wanted them to represent me.

Them : "Hello Jabba jabba jabba"
Me "Can you confirm the first line of your address please?"
Them " errr? what?"
Me " I also need your postcode and date of birth please"
Them "why do you want that information?"
Me (in a loud voice) " because you always fucking ask me for it!"
Me " hello? hello? aww you hung up!

Pepperami goes back to his tea and toast
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Some top drawer trolling of unwanted callers!
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[TheCatSatOnTh...]

Realised the only calls I ever get on my landline were sales calls so unplugged my landline phone. That's stopped 95%. Got an app that blocks 'unknown number' on my mobile which stops about 4% and the same app stops the same caller calling back a second time.

[nerald]

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Delayed Auditory Feedback.

Example :-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DE8503EwdGY
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[Commuter_Tim]

Landlines are bullshit, own a mobile, Ignore calls from numbers I don't know(unless applying for a job at the time), if I CBA I sometimes Google the number and block it if they're incessant.
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[Clanger]

We have caller ID on our phones, so don't answer international calls or any which don't show up, or indeed any of the 0800 numbers.
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[sidewinder]

I just talk to them in welsh they soon hang up

[Benson_JV]

What you want to do, worked for me perfectly, is thus:

Someone phones asking for Mr Smith; you then breakdown because Mr Smith died last month, you're absolutely heartbroken, this is the worst thing that could have happened to you today. You then bollock them becuase they're not being compassionate enough. Eventually they hang up and never ever phone again.
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