Argh - Spam phone calls
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Last week or so we started getting "spam phone calls" from someone I and the rest of my family don't know who it is. When we answer the phone there's nobody there and the caller display reports an unlisted number. :mad: It happpens about 3 times a day now and it's really annoying! Rickard Andersson Here is my card, contact me later! UIN: 50302279 Sonork: 37318
Last week I received a total of 25 "NUMBER WITHHELD" phonecalls while I was at work. At one at some ungodly hour on Saturday morning. None left a message. I can't imagine anything being that important that they wouldn't leave a message. Anyway, if I had managed to answer the phone in time on Saturday morning they would have spoken with someone who would have been totally incomprehensible who was complaining about being woken after only 4 hours of sleep. --Colin Mackay--
EuroCPian Spring 2004 Get Together[^] "You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want." --Zig Ziglar
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Last week I received a total of 25 "NUMBER WITHHELD" phonecalls while I was at work. At one at some ungodly hour on Saturday morning. None left a message. I can't imagine anything being that important that they wouldn't leave a message. Anyway, if I had managed to answer the phone in time on Saturday morning they would have spoken with someone who would have been totally incomprehensible who was complaining about being woken after only 4 hours of sleep. --Colin Mackay--
EuroCPian Spring 2004 Get Together[^] "You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want." --Zig Ziglar
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I just got so hacked off with all these "dead" calls and telemarketing that I recently registered with these guys: telephone preference register[^] time will tell if it makes a difference: it suggests 28 days as the lead time. Debbie
I registered with them also. But your registration expires after a while. Certainly since I registered I've not received any "You've won a holiday", "Would you like a new kitchen?" etc. calls. The registration may have expired for me and that's where all these calls have come from. But as I didn't answer any I don't know. --Colin Mackay--
EuroCPian Spring 2004 Get Together[^] "You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want." --Zig Ziglar
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Last week or so we started getting "spam phone calls" from someone I and the rest of my family don't know who it is. When we answer the phone there's nobody there and the caller display reports an unlisted number. :mad: It happpens about 3 times a day now and it's really annoying! Rickard Andersson Here is my card, contact me later! UIN: 50302279 Sonork: 37318
Hook up a fax machine to your phone line for a couple of days. Have it answer all calls. That not only stops the calls, it usually gets your number removed from the call list. :) Chris Meech We're more like a hobbiest in a Home Depot drooling at all the shiny power tools, rather than a craftsman that makes the chair to an exacting level of comfort by measuring the customer's butt. Marc Clifton VB is like a toolbox, in the hands of a craftsman, you can end up with some amazing stuff, but without the skills to use it right you end up with Homer Simpson's attempt at building a barbeque or his attempt at a Spice rack. Michael P. Butler
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Hook up a fax machine to your phone line for a couple of days. Have it answer all calls. That not only stops the calls, it usually gets your number removed from the call list. :) Chris Meech We're more like a hobbiest in a Home Depot drooling at all the shiny power tools, rather than a craftsman that makes the chair to an exacting level of comfort by measuring the customer's butt. Marc Clifton VB is like a toolbox, in the hands of a craftsman, you can end up with some amazing stuff, but without the skills to use it right you end up with Homer Simpson's attempt at building a barbeque or his attempt at a Spice rack. Michael P. Butler
What will the FAX do? Rickard Andersson Here is my card, contact me later! UIN: 50302279 Sonork: 37318
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What will the FAX do? Rickard Andersson Here is my card, contact me later! UIN: 50302279 Sonork: 37318
It provides a worse irritation to the caller. Also when they realize it is a fax machine, the caller will drop the number from the list ( or transfer it over to their fax list :( ). Chris Meech We're more like a hobbiest in a Home Depot drooling at all the shiny power tools, rather than a craftsman that makes the chair to an exacting level of comfort by measuring the customer's butt. Marc Clifton VB is like a toolbox, in the hands of a craftsman, you can end up with some amazing stuff, but without the skills to use it right you end up with Homer Simpson's attempt at building a barbeque or his attempt at a Spice rack. Michael P. Butler
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It provides a worse irritation to the caller. Also when they realize it is a fax machine, the caller will drop the number from the list ( or transfer it over to their fax list :( ). Chris Meech We're more like a hobbiest in a Home Depot drooling at all the shiny power tools, rather than a craftsman that makes the chair to an exacting level of comfort by measuring the customer's butt. Marc Clifton VB is like a toolbox, in the hands of a craftsman, you can end up with some amazing stuff, but without the skills to use it right you end up with Homer Simpson's attempt at building a barbeque or his attempt at a Spice rack. Michael P. Butler
Wouldn't it be better to answer and give them the f-word combined with suitable nouns, prepositions, adjectives and adverbs? :rolleyes: -- Gott weiß ich will kein Engel sein.
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It provides a worse irritation to the caller. Also when they realize it is a fax machine, the caller will drop the number from the list ( or transfer it over to their fax list :( ). Chris Meech We're more like a hobbiest in a Home Depot drooling at all the shiny power tools, rather than a craftsman that makes the chair to an exacting level of comfort by measuring the customer's butt. Marc Clifton VB is like a toolbox, in the hands of a craftsman, you can end up with some amazing stuff, but without the skills to use it right you end up with Homer Simpson's attempt at building a barbeque or his attempt at a Spice rack. Michael P. Butler
Chris Meech wrote: or transfer it over to their fax list ...and then instead of getting silent phone calls you'll get fax handshakes instead :| I had a funny one the other day: answered the phone and a recorded voice said "I'm sorry, this call was intended for ansaphones only" :confused: Hmmm...I wonder how many marriages suffer from telemarketing-induced paranoia ? :rolleyes: Debbie
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Wouldn't it be better to answer and give them the f-word combined with suitable nouns, prepositions, adjectives and adverbs? :rolleyes: -- Gott weiß ich will kein Engel sein.
Jörgen Sigvardsson wrote: Wouldn't it be better to answer and give them the f-word combined with suitable nouns, prepositions, adjectives and adverbs? The problem is that 25% of the time, there will be nobody at the other end as other people were unlucky enough to answer the phone quicker. The second problem comes when you answer the phone and you get an Indian at the other end. They probably won't understand what you've said and think you are standing "thanks forcalling"; Michael But you know when the truth is told, That you can get what you want or you can just get old, Your're going to kick off before you even get halfway through. When will you realise... Vienna waits for you? - "The Stranger," Billy Joel
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Last week I received a total of 25 "NUMBER WITHHELD" phonecalls while I was at work. At one at some ungodly hour on Saturday morning. None left a message. I can't imagine anything being that important that they wouldn't leave a message. Anyway, if I had managed to answer the phone in time on Saturday morning they would have spoken with someone who would have been totally incomprehensible who was complaining about being woken after only 4 hours of sleep. --Colin Mackay--
EuroCPian Spring 2004 Get Together[^] "You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want." --Zig Ziglar
Maybe it was from a call centre in India *quack* Elaine :rose: PS That was the sound of me ducking ;P The tigress is here :-D