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Seed CEO
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Posted - 2007.11.14 12:21:00 -
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I live in the UK, im getting a lot of recorded marketing messages from the same number:
0800 006 4242
I've tried every damn number I could find: the Information Commissioner's Office, The Telephone Preference Service, OfCom, and virginmedia (phone line provide). None of them are able to help.
So:
a) Anyone else getting these type of calls, and found out how to stop them? (I'm registered with TPS)
b) Anyone a google wizard who is able to find out who that number is for?
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Daedalus DuGalle
Gallente
University of Caille
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Posted - 2007.11.14 12:44:00 -
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Greetings, friends. Do you wish to look as happy as me? Well, you've got the power inside you right now. So, use it, and send one dollar to Happy Dude, 742 Evergreen Terrace, Springfield. Don't delay, eternal happiness is just a dollar away.
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Sallah Hernandes
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Posted - 2007.11.14 13:14:00 -
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You could try registering a complaint with TPS - they would have access to more information than us nubs.
AS long as you can give them some specific date & time information they should be able to pass along a fine.
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MrTriggerHappy
Caldari
Interstellar eXodus
R0ADKILL
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Posted - 2007.11.14 14:01:00 -
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Phone BT, say that number is causing nuisance calls on more than one occassion and you wish to have it blocked, if they say no, they might suggest another course of action?
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Banana Torres
The Green Banana Corporation
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Posted - 2007.11.14 14:18:00 -
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0800 numbers are free to call from a public pay phone.
So, what happens when you phone it?
Well you get a automated system that says you have been approved for a loan and asks for a telephone number to call you back on.
Now, if I could be bothered I would enter a valid number and when the calls comes in I would get the name of the IFA that is harrassing me and report them to the FSA.
Then I would fill in lots of coupons for free books, CDs, and lovely stuff from crappy pottery firms in their name. And clog up the spamming bastards mailbox.
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duffmantt
Dragonian Freelancers
KIA Alliance
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Posted - 2007.11.14 14:25:00 -
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Well you get a automated system that says you have been approved for a loan and asks for a telephone number to call you back on.
Completely illegal and could be heavily fined and/or shut down by the FSA. I used to work in finances and assuming your British, get in touch with the FSA, they usually come down like a ton of bricks.
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Motokko
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Posted - 2007.11.14 14:38:00 -
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I unplugged my house phone several months ago and never looked back. Everyone who I want to contact me has my mobile number anyway. Now whenever any company or whatever asks for a phone number I can quite gladly give them the house number happy in the knowledge that they'll never be able to bug me.
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Terail Zoqial
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Posted - 2007.11.14 16:58:00 -
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I get some of that crap. I'm taking a bit of a guess and assuming virgin media sold a shed load of phone numbers off to crappy companies when they we're going through their pwned stage and needed money. Never had this crap with NTL 
I'm at work most of the time so I only get a few a week
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Valan
Genco
Interstellar Alcohol Conglomerate
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Posted - 2007.11.14 17:13:00 -
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Edited by: Valan on 14/11/2007 17:18:13
Every call in the UK is logged end of.
You should report it to the nuisance calls unit at your provider. If they're a large offender the route will get pulled from the switch and they won't be calling anyone.
Virgin have fobbed you off.
By the way I love the phone calls on a Saturday morning from my friendly offshore call centre trying to sell me something. They provide a great free service where someone phones you and you get to swear and yell at them for nothing. Cheaper than therapy. Yes I know they are people to but I really don't care, they shouldn't phone me up.
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I love old characters that post 'I've beeen playing the game four years' when I know their account has been sold on.
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Jenny Spitfire
Caldari
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Posted - 2007.11.14 19:41:00 -
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Pick up, then hang up. Problem solved.
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Seed CEO
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Posted - 2007.11.14 21:54:00 -
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Thanks for the tips.
Valan - thats as far as I got.
Duffmantt - I'll send off an email to the FSA at work tomorrow, but I've a feeling they wont care too much.
Jenny - Thats the point, I have to run for the phone and find that its some dodgy machine.
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Derovius Vaden
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Posted - 2007.11.14 23:00:00 -
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Originally by: Seed CEO
Thanks for the tips.
Valan - thats as far as I got.
Duffmantt - I'll send off an email to the FSA at work tomorrow, but I've a feeling they wont care too much.
Jenny - Thats the point, I have to run for the phone and find that its some dodgy machine.
1. Find the phone number of the source.
2. Built an autodialer server of your own, connect to internet.
3. Retaliate.
4. Profit.
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Darcel Black
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Posted - 2007.11.14 23:35:00 -
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Here's how you deal with them
Linkage
:P
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Drakesh
Caldari
CAD Inc.
Executive Outcomes
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Posted - 2007.11.15 03:35:00 -
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http://youtube.com/watch?v=9E-iDCROEoI
Old but good
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Iva Soreass
Perkone
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Posted - 2007.11.15 09:51:00 -
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I dunno if this site can help you at all - http://www.icstis.org.uk/
[20:03:51] Ciprian > no pls i have snakes
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Iva Soreass
Perkone
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Posted - 2007.11.15 09:53:00 -
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Also, i used to get bugged by this company before. So you know what i did ? they rang up one sunday afternoon (YES sunday !) so i said hold on some ones at the door, put the phone by the tv and left it there. Funny they never did call back again.
[20:03:51] Ciprian > no pls i have snakes
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Valan
Genco
Interstellar Alcohol Conglomerate
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Posted - 2007.11.15 11:44:00 -
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Or record a TS convo with you going yes, aha, ok loop it and put it next to the phone.
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I love old characters that post 'I've beeen playing the game four years' when I know their account has been sold on.
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KayO
MercenaryZ
Fate Weavers
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Posted - 2007.11.15 12:42:00 -
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Originally by: Drakesh
http://youtube.com/watch?v=9E-iDCROEoI
Old but good
omg that was Hilarious 
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Jago Kain
Amarr
Ramm's RDI
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Posted - 2007.11.16 03:31:00 -
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I generally have two ways of dealing with tele-marketing folk.
If I'm busy, or not in the mood for BS, I'll just ask them to remove my number from their database and not to call again.
However. If it's a bit of a slow day, I'm bored and have nothing better to do, I like to string them along a bit.
Whatever it is they are selling, I express an interest and ask them to tell me more. I generally affect a slow, drawly voice and I pretend to be stupid/confused/medicated/Scottish/whatever to drag out the time they spend talking to me. I ask them to repeat information again and again and hit them with a barrage of the most obvious and inane questions. I ask about extra insurance, different options, specifications, comparisions to competitiors products, payment plans, credit etc.; anything to keep them on the phone and talking to me.
If you pitch it right, you can keep one of these soulless, carrion swines on the phone for upwards of 20 minutes before they give it up as a bad job, and that's time they can't harrass anyone else for and, as most of them get paid on commission, it costs them to waste it talking to me.
I once kept a guy on the phone for over an hour discussing the pros and cons of private health insurance and what, exactly I'd be covered for and not. When I eventually dropped the bomb and admitted I'd only been talking to him to waste his time and stop him earning, and asked him how his day had been going up to that point, he went off like a firework and unleashed a torrent of verbal abuse that would shock a scouser as I hung up laughing. Most satisfying. 
Who knows, if they get enough timewasters on the other end of the phone, they may give up telesales, get a real job, and become vaguely human again and possibly even contribute something of worth to the world, instead of making a living out of selling crap to folk who ought to know better, but miraculously often don't.
So, next time one of these vultures breaches your bubble of tranquility with his/her nefarious BS, hit them where it really hurts. In the pocket.
You know it makes sense.
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Suziki BoD
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Posted - 2007.11.16 13:35:00 -
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Edited by: Suziki BoD on 16/11/2007 13:36:08
OK Shameless plug time.....
I work for the premium rate phone regulator its called PhonepayPlus webby www.phonepayplus.org.uk
Lots of information on this type of "service" only problem is we can only help you if your are actually billed for the phonecall(s) so make a note of day time ect more info the better.
I've passed the number listed to a mate in our investigations dept see what he turns up.... watch this space we could end up shafting them like we did to Richard and Judy
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DarkMatter
Sintered Sanity
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Posted - 2007.11.16 13:39:00 -
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Originally by: Jago Kain
I generally have two ways of dealing with tele-marketing folk.
If I'm busy, or not in the mood for BS, I'll just ask them to remove my number from their database and not to call again.
However. If it's a bit of a slow day, I'm bored and have nothing better to do, I like to string them along a bit.
Whatever it is they are selling, I express an interest and ask them to tell me more. I generally affect a slow, drawly voice and I pretend to be stupid/confused/medicated/Scottish/whatever to drag out the time they spend talking to me. I ask them to repeat information again and again and hit them with a barrage of the most obvious and inane questions. I ask about extra insurance, different options, specifications, comparisions to competitiors products, payment plans, credit etc.; anything to keep them on the phone and talking to me.
If you pitch it right, you can keep one of these soulless, carrion swines on the phone for upwards of 20 minutes before they give it up as a bad job, and that's time they can't harrass anyone else for and, as most of them get paid on commission, it costs them to waste it talking to me.
I once kept a guy on the phone for over an hour discussing the pros and cons of private health insurance and what, exactly I'd be covered for and not. When I eventually dropped the bomb and admitted I'd only been talking to him to waste his time and stop him earning, and asked him how his day had been going up to that point, he went off like a firework and unleashed a torrent of verbal abuse that would shock a scouser as I hung up laughing. Most satisfying.
Who knows, if they get enough timewasters on the other end of the phone, they may give up telesales, get a real job, and become vaguely human again and possibly even contribute something of worth to the world, instead of making a living out of selling crap to folk who ought to know better, but miraculously often don't.
So, next time one of these vultures breaches your bubble of tranquility with his/her nefarious BS, hit them where it really hurts. In the pocket.
You know it makes sense.
Sounds like fun, but I'd never have the patience...
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Darteis Elosia
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Posted - 2007.11.16 18:42:00 -
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I just deliver ALOT of swearing and insults. Works good for the most part. Sometimes i might play a high pitched audio tone extremly loud keep on the conversation and play along and keep cueing that tone in every now and then... Both tactics works wonders!
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