Did you miss a call, don’t know the number, not sure if you should call back or not. There’s a great service at https://who-called.co.uk/
However, what we are trying to do here, is list numbers used by companies, Who Called might be able to tell you who called if you enter the phone number that called you.
It’s a really good and worthwhile website.
You can help take control of your telephone by registering your number with the telephone preference service (TPS) – this is free. If you have a fax machine you can also register with the fax preference service (FPS) again for free.
You should see a marked decrease in calls in a month. You could also get a caller display so you can see the callers number (or if it’s withheld). Some allow you to store the persons name, so you’ll see their name and number.
If you, like me, can get a caller display telephone with answering machine, you’ll may find that allowing the answering machine to answer will get rid of some cold call marketing callers.
If like me you’ve managed to totally loose your temper, once or twice, I’ve found that:
“WTF do you mean, why do I want to buy (your crappy service/device) WHERE THE HELL IS THE AMBULANCE, HOW MUCH MORE TIME HAVE WE GOT TO WAIT?!”
Hopefully the scammer will disconnect ASAP and you get the chance to vent your frustration on the cold sales caller, but not recommended, if you are calling 999 for a real!
Can you speak another language apart from English?
If you can, speak that language as you answer the phone, I did manage to annoy one Indian call centre worker by speaking in Welsh, eventually they said “this ****hole can’t even speak English” and hung up on me. Again the number of calls decreased even more, so seems logical the sales calls we had been getting were from the same “call centre”
One handy thing if your being plagued by what you think could be a foreign call centre and especially if it’s your mobile, is to consider answering calls in another language, all you need is “Good morning, how are you?” they’ll hang up after you saying that three times LOL
We’ve even answered calls to English numbers in Welsh. After all if they get the time of day wrong, are not going to know which STD codes are in England, Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland.
Welcome to Oh! Fudge (my) TELephone
I have decided to start this website because I am sick to death of cold sales callers. Despite being registered with the telephone preference service, I have discovered that a debt collection agency has been calling me around 4 times a day for 6 months and once I finally tell them they have the wrong number, I hang up and get a call from IPSOS MORI with a very difficult to hear guy with a Scottish accent … Arrrrggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
What made matters even worse is that I was woken up this morning by a damn text message which had the wrong first name about getting some sort of damn loan, followed by another. Whenever I’ve signed up for something you get a PIN to verify it is you that has signed up, so WTF did I get texts for someone else? and I had to pay to send the STOP command to them?
I should stress that debt collection agencies are allowed to call you as well as surveys. However, if you have bought a call blocking solution, as I did, you need to know the telephone numbers to enter them to block them. I plan making freedom of information requests and list the numbers, I and perhaps you should be blocking if you just can’t stop a company from calling you.