O/T silent phone calls

[Bob Lee]

At 2.15 am I was awoken by the phone, fearing the worst I stumbled out of bed and answered the phone in a panic.

I have an elderly mother and elderly inlaws.  The phone was silent then hung up.  I pressed 1471 and was told they did not have the caller's number.

It took me 2 hours to get back to sleep.

9am and I receive a phonecall off my inlaws, they also received a phonecall about the same time 2.15 am, they are 80 years old and worried all the rest of the night.

I also was told one of my friends received the same phonecall, we all have a Boston number.

I assume it was an automated call from India or the States.

I am not a very happy tired bunny

[noughtyforties]

Do what we did and register with TPS, if you get any unwanted calls tell them you are TPS registered, they will apologize and not pester you again.

I get probably 1 nuisance call a month now, its worth the money.

[Lord Cutler Knobhead]

http://www.tpsonline.org.uk/tps/

It's a free service isn't it?

It worked for us for about a year and now they are creeping back.

[Finchley Tiger]

http://www.tpsonline.org.uk/tps/

It's a free service isn't it?

It worked for us for about a year and now they are creeping back.

The service is free, unfortunately it only covers calls made in the UK. If a company is using an overseas call centre to make the calls they do not need to "screen" against the TPS file to ensure calls are not made to TPS registered phone numbers.

[Lord Cutler Knobhead]

The service is free, unfortunately it only covers calls made in the UK. If a company is using an overseas call centre to make the calls they do not need to "screen" against the TPS file to ensure calls are not made to TPS registered phone numbers.

I.e talk talk who are always cold calling

[John C]

Ironic if talk talk cold call a lot given they are presently not calling me to tell when they are going to fix my broadband...

[amberarmy]

we often get recorded calls but we are unable to register with TPS as they don't identify themselves - all they do is supply a number where you can get further details of their service and i'm reluctant to call back in case its a scam to hike your phone bill even higher

how the heck do you register the caller with TPS if you don't actually know who the heck it is ??

[orangecoat]

i also had a phone call at that time of the morning once again no number this is very worrying

At 2.15 am I was awoken by the phone, fearing the worst I stumbled out of bed and answered the phone in a panic.

I have an elderly mother and elderly inlaws.  The phone was silent then hung up.  I pressed 1471 and was told they did not have the caller's number.

It took me 2 hours to get back to sleep.

9am and I receive a phonecall off my inlaws, they also received a phonecall about the same time 2.15 am, they are 80 years old and worried all the rest of the night.

I also was told one of my friends received the same phonecall, we all have a Boston number.

I assume it was an automated call from India or the States.

I am not a very happy tired bunny

[Fairfax]

I think you'll find that YOU register with TPS and they put you on a list. All companies are expected to check the list before they call you.

[Ed Kandi]

I think you'll find that YOU register with TPS and they put you on a list. All companies are expected to check the list before they call you.

It should be against the law for any company to cold-call any phone number in my opinion...but as its not, the only thing you can do is give them the sort of verbal abuse our managers got last week, then they might get themselves proper jobs  :dan