Re: BBC2: The Great Phonecall Con
- From: Marcus Houlden <spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 12 Nov 2005 13:51:44 GMT
On Sat, 12 Nov 2005 10:45:05 +0000, Norman Wells <norman@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote the following to uk.media.tv.misc:
> In article <XM9df.6078$Lw5.255@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Carl Waring
><carl.waring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
>
>>Here's a question. The phone rings and, upon your answering it, a voice
>>tells you that have won a prize and to claim it all you have to do is call a
>>number.
>>
>>Do you...
>
> I wonder what tactics people here have to deter cold callers generally.
I go for the simple approach: "No thanks, I'm not interested." The villains
of the piece are the marketing dept, not the automaton who makes the call.
I'm ex-directory and TPS registered so I get very few calls anyway. It also
provides a certain amount of leverage if I do complain to ICSTIS or the
Information Commissioner. One SMS spam I received ended up in the company
being fined £10,000 and having its licence suspended for a year.
mh.
--
>From address is a blackhole. Reply-to address is valid.
"People are animals too."
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