the capybara
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TPS - telephone preference service. google it and register |
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jnkewa777
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Go to this site and put your number in. It is a gov. site and the telemarketers will get fined big money if they keep calling you.
https://www.donotcall.gov/
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snarf
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There is a do not call list you can put yourself on...takes a few weeks before it kicks in, but once it does the calls should stop. I have caller ID on my phone as well, if it is a number I don't recognize or a 1-800 number I know not to pick up as it is always a sales call. |
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bajaricky
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HI
There is a national as well as state wide
list Called NO Call list
below is the link and information that you will allow you to sign up for the national no call list
and information regarding the list
WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT
THE NATIONAL DO NOT CALL REGISTRY
The National Do Not Call Registry gives you a choice about whether to receive telemarketing calls at home. Most telemarketers should not call your number once it has been on the registry for 31 days. If they do, you can file a complaint at this Website. You can register your home or mobile phone for free.
https://www.donotcall.gov/
dont forget to vote for best answer
bajaricky@yahoo.com
best wishes
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teddy
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contact your telephone line supplier, and tell them you are getting nuisance calls, and that you want them stopped. They should do so, if not as someone said there is a telephone preference service you can access. However most of these calls are on an automated dial up system. |
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Steve D
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If you are in the U.S., go to www.donotcall.gov and register. It will take a few weeks, but once you are registered and put on the list, telemarketers (with a few exceptions) cannot call you. Be careful however, one of the exceptions is having a prior business relationship. Filling out certain surveys (in the mall for instance) can establish a "prior business relationship" per the fine print on the survey. The way to avoid this is don't fill anything out (or at the least, read all the fine print). |
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Manx
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Go here and sign up with The Telephone preference service or TPS as its know. It’s a totally free government sponsored program, which takes away the permission for marketing company’s to use and sell on your details. Basically it means they cant have your details on there marketing list anymore, It won’t stop them over night but it will stop 95% of them over the next few weeks sometimes 100% if you’re lucky. I had the same problem as you until I registered with these its worth doing. It only takes 5 mins to fill out
TPS click here http://www.mpsonline.org.uk/tps/ |
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nicetights
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They're not marketing calls, i am really genuinely interested in your tights! |
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gavmel259
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Register on the site below, and then your cold calls, or marketing calls will get reduced.
SHould you still get the occasional one, just explain to them you are on the TPS register and that they would be breaking the law if they contact you again.
http://www.mpsonline.org.uk/tps/ |
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Laredo
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List your phone number on "The Do Not Call List."
http://www.donotcall.gov
It will take about a month to get it complete in the system. In the meantime, when you do get a call either, check your caller ID and don't answer or tell the caller that you are on the "Do Not Call Registry" and to note in their records. Warn them that if they call again you will file a lawsuit against their company.
I did that and don't get but two or three calls a year now. I received one a few weeks ago from a male with a foreign accent. He was insistent on giving his little sales pitch. I said, "Look, if you just have to talk after I told you I'm not interested, I will put the dog on the phone and you can talk until you're tired." He started laughing and just hung up. My husband was laughing so hard he was bent over.
On others I've received, when they started yapping, I just rudely hung up. If it is not prerecorded and I actually hear a person, I just lay the phone down on the desk and walk away. It must really be embarrassing to them when they figure out they're talking to the desk. I'll go back in about 5 minutes and hang the phone up without checking to see if they're still on the line.
You can get some good ideas from http://800notes.com
Listen to Tom Mabe as he pretends the caller had interrupted a murder investigation and questions the caller as if he is a suspect. It will be listed on the right side of the page. |
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big booba balooga
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block them |
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Joe L
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Same thing happend to me. I think I applied to a job that was just a scam posting and they called me all the time- always from a different number.
If you have caller ID and see a number you don't know, pick up the phone and continually hit the "#" key until they hang up. If it is an automated system calling you, it will knock your number out of the system because it thinks it is a fax machine.
Give it a try- it works wonders! Stopped my calls within 3 days. |
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arietta
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you can phone up your phone company or the Telephone Preference Service and ask to be taken off marketing calls lists.
"The Telephone Preference Service, set up by the Direct Marketing Association (UK) Limited (DMA), was originally formed in 1995 as a voluntary self-regulatory mechanism to enable consumers to opt-out of receiving unsolicited sales and marketing calls."
for more info check this link:
http://marketscan.co.uk/direct_mail_data_preference_service_screening_tps.aspx
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Champagne 7 SUSPENDED AGAIN
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The first answerer is correct. I registered with the TPS and the calls stopped. Its free. |
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urbanspaceman
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unfortunately you can`t i get many too
bt can`t monitor them as they are calls made offshore.
you can`t even use bt`s choose to refuse-£1.50 amonth in case you`re interested re: `other` calls -ex`s etc-as bt doesn`t have offshore no`s to give you.
bloody annoying i know. |
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