T.W.O. magazine - scam or genuine?

Have you win anything? If so, was it worth being telesales-ed for?

 

Oh I had something like that on the answering machine. It got deleted.

Hey I don't answer my phone. If someone really wants to talk to me
they'll leave a message. If they don't then they just want to sell me
something and I don't buy anything from people who cold call.

 

Cheers for the tip, Champ. Recent spate of 'silent' calls (number
either witheld or just not on the system) starting to become rather
spooky.

 

Well, as it happens, in this instance, no.

 

Not every PITA subscribes to that service, nor do the cunts who make
'prank' calls[1] at unpopular times.

Weigh up the options. Until the TPS is legally and demonstrably enforced,
I'll go by previous experience whereby it was heartily ignored.

You pays yer money, you makes yer choice.

[1]We inherited the number from the previous occupier. All of the calls
were number witheld. They've stopped now, which is nice.

At the previous residence, lodged the number with the TPS, still got calls
from cold callers. Best I could do was just ask them to hold on, then go
make a cup of coffee or summat to occupy their time.

 

I got that as well yesterday. And I'm on the TPS. Didn't bother
listening long enough to work out how to complain, it's a definite
advantage when you can rip some callcenter bods head off.

 

It's a legal enforcible. From the site :
"Direct marketing telephone calls: it is unlawful for someone in
business (including charities or other voluntary organisations) to
make such a call to any Individual if that Individual has either told
that business or organisation that he/she does not want to receive
such calls or has registered with the Telephone Preference Service
that they do not wish to receive such calls from any business or
organisation."

I don't get any cold sales calls now, and I never got prank calls
anyway, so that wasn't a problem. I do however have several friends
who as a matter of course withhold their number when they make calls,
so the BT service would mean that they couldn't call me. And, most
commercial switchboards don't give out numbers, meaning that my work,
and other companies I deal with, couldn't call me either.

 

Power Grainger wrote

This is a different thing altogether and is dealt with under the heading
of "Nuisance Calls". Ring BT and tell them what is going on and they
should run an intercept or summat on your phone for a couple of months
for free if you are a bird. 'Course if you are a bloke they will tell
you to stop being such a big pansy and **** off.

 

Hmmm.. I can't help but wonder if the growth of offshore call centres has
contributed to the increase in cold calling. If a call centre has slack
time, get the operators to cold call on behalf of < insert company name
here > and that is a loophole that is being exploited.

I just notified them I was enabling the service and why. That'd be my
friends, not yours of course. They don't see it as an issue to tap in
whatever code it is to reveal the number into their phone books.





And, most

Ah, I don't have those sort of dealings. For out of hours support, our call
centre page me as I don't want my family waking just because a mail queue
has spiralled.

Claire has mentioned about 'silent' calls. These used to scare the shit out
of my wife. These have stopped now.

Seems whoever asked could do with weighing up the options available. At
least you can cancel the BT service if it does have an unenvisaged
detrimental effect.

Reckon between us we've pretty much covered it

 

steve auvache squitted in a warm and wet fashion:

'Course if you are a bloke

LOL

 

Sean at work squitted in a warm and wet fashion:

Take your card out of the phone box.

 

I work with someone who used to work for the AA. These weird silent
calls are apparantly where an automated system just dials numbers one
after another and tries to pass them to an sales droid when someone
answers. Of course, the system falls down if there isn't a sales
droid available straight away - hence the silent calls. That's what I
was told anyway.

 

I think the best policy, regardless of callers sex, is to ask if they are
naked. Would they like to get naked. Make a few straining noises and
they usually go away.

Although, cold phone callers pale into insignifcance with the naked door
answering fun that is halloween.

 

I find cold callers often hang up rather quickly if the first thing
you say is "Oh, it's so nice to have someone to speak to, I haven't
spoken to a soul since I was made redundant and it's making me go
slightly crazy ..."

 

Apparently not, from a consumer program on 3 counties radio the other
day

 

Well, considering that in order to set up a direct debit you only need
account no, sort code, branch address and signature - all of which may
be copied from a cheque, it seems perfectly possible.

The trick would be in acquiring goods in such a way to prevent them
tracing the fraud back to yourself.