Nuisance Calls & unsolicited mail.

Posted by: BigH47 on 08 November 2007

The following is for information only. Whether they will work is not for discussion. Take it for what it is please.

An article in my union mag suggests:-

Those no one there phone calls made by machines to establish when people are in the house. If you get one before it clears hit # (hash) key 5 or 6 times quickly. Apparently it confuses the dialling machine programme.

Loads of unsolicited mail for windows,Pizza, Credit cards etc? Keep hold of them for a while then send them back. With pizza one in the credit card envelope etc etc.Fill in the credit card with joke entries someone will then have to read and reject them.

Howard
Posted on: 08 November 2007 by Malky
I got one of those "You have won a Caribean cruise" messages a couple of years ago, inviting you to press 9 for more info, which then connects you to a £5 per min thing which you can't disconnect from for 20 mins.
I hung up and called the operator. They told me they are computer generated from overseas and, thus, being ex-directory or being registred with the Telephone Preferencing service offers no defence.
I bet they ensnare a few unsuspecting souls.
Posted on: 08 November 2007 by Beano
You want to deal with these calls like I do, have a listen and just make up a date of birth or enable cookies. There is no foul language in it!

http://howtoprankatelemarketer.ytmnd.com/

Beano
Posted on: 08 November 2007 by Bob McC
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which then connects you to a £5 per min thing which you can't disconnect from for 20 mins.


urban myth surely!
Posted on: 08 November 2007 by Adam Meredith
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Originally posted by bob mccluckie:
urban myth surely!


seems so - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/12/08/dial_9_scam_snares_wilts/
Posted on: 08 November 2007 by AV@naim
Adam,

please stop calling me at 3 in the morning, breathing heavily down the phone...
Posted on: 08 November 2007 by Malky
quote:
Originally posted by Adam Meredith:
quote:
Originally posted by bob mccluckie:
urban myth surely!


seems so - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/12/08/dial_9_scam_snares_wilts/


Well I'll be darned. Maybe I missed out on a cruise then.
Posted on: 08 November 2007 by BigH47
In 2001 my wife got a call just as she was leaving for work. " Congratulations you have won 2 return tickets, where would you like to go?" Yeah OK thought the misses Florida says my wife OK we will ring back. The next day they rang back and asked when we wanted to go and sent us details a couple of days later. We had been picked out of people using a travel web site. It was free and worked well apart from some adjustments to the flights caused by 9/11 which was a couple of weeks after this call. End result free trip to see friend in Florida over Halloween.