Hahaha Classic. What a bunch of ****.

It wasn’t me who recorded this conversation….

I suggest you read the threads properly before flaming people (at least get your facts right), but judging from your piece I guess you are either American or illiterate or both.

The subject matter is about unsolicited auto-dialled sales calls with pre-recorded messages, which are illegal if originated in the UK, in which case the originator and many other people have reason to be annoyed.

Perhaps you work for one of these organisations and cannot defend yourself by fair and logical argument.

p.s visit a brothel, for your own good

I would doubt this is a ’scam’ in the way you mean it - it is called ‘telemarketing’ and has been around for years. Because they are calling from abroad, they can select a target area and start calling numbers from 000001 to 999998, calls that don’t connect don;t cost anything - the system can also detect answering machines, faxes and modems.

Believe it or not, there is actually a market for these call logs, because they retain a value, as they can sell on those numbers that were actually answered by a human, AND those numbers where the recipient responded.
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Peter

I am happily and profitably employed with no debts whatsoever.

This thread is for people who are constantly being harrassed by unwanted telephone calls and not about personal debt - so I’m not quite sure of the point of your vitriolic personal attack.

My comments are therefore directed at the originators of these calls and the inability of OFCOM to prevent them.

Perhaps you are too illiterate to read the thread or are you also an employee of these sales organisations with their unethical methods ?

P.S Does he even have a job I wonder!

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Misuse of automated calling systems

6.4 Power or predictive diallers offer the possibility of initiating calls to a sequence of numbers in accordance with stored instructions without the need for each individual number to be dialled in turn. They are widely used in call centres. For the purpose of the 2003 Regulations power diallers are more commonly known as automated calling systems with the additional qualification that the calls are made without human intervention. In this context, this means that the contents of the call do not involve an operator or live speech.
6.5 Under the 2003 Regulations it is an offence to use automated calling systems to make direct marketing calls which do not consist of live speech unless the called person has previously notified the caller that for the time being they consent to such communications being sent. An example of such a call is a recorded message for marketing purposes where no operator is present.
6.6 The concept of direct marketing that the 2003 Regulations rely on is very broad and applies not just to the advertisement of goods and services but also to the promotion of an organisation’s aims and ideals. It therefore applies to political and charitable, in addition to commercial, organisations. However there may be types of unsolicited recorded messages sent by automated calling systems that cause annoyance or inconvenience but which, for whatever reason, fall outside the 2003 Regulations.
6.7 Under the previous regulatory framework based on the Telecommunications Act 1984 the use of automated calling systems (then described as automatic calling equipment) for purposes other than direct marketing was regulated under a licence condition included in both individual and class telecommunications licences which applied to all communications providers and end-users running a licensed system. The effect of the condition was to prohibit the use of such systems without the consent of called parties to initiate calls that consisted of:
• recorded messages;
• silent calls;
• fax-scanning calls; and
• fax messages.

and here is the page for the entire document - http://www.ofcom.org.uk/consult/condocs/liberalisation2/responses/bt.pdf

However, as we are all aware these automated calls are now originating from outside UK law - e.g The USA in which cases, OFCOM are directly powerless to prosecute however, I cannot believe that it would be impossible to block calls coming in from confirmed offenders and that this could be done fairly quickly.

I get these calls approximately once a week, the last one was this afternoon - ‘Financial Debt Awareness’ and when I asked, I was told their number was 0203 0260046 as per previous people’s comments.

On another similar matter, I contacted OFCOM - sadly they are worse than useless, so don’t hold your breath about getting these types of calls stopped.

They do however seem to have taken the concept of customer service to another level though!!!!!

Thanks guys.

They will be getting reported.

Not the first time they’ve called, but my better half usually answers the phone, and just hangs up on them.

Does anyone know of a company called Search UK? We have been getting calls from them up to 3 times a day for the last 3 weeks or so. They ask for my fiance and if he’s not there they start asking me questions ‘Have you got a job’ ‘How many hours’ etc. Think they are debt company of some sort but cannot find any info on them. They have now been told repeatedly not to call, but still persist. When I spoke to the guy (’Zane’) yesterday he was rude and sarcastic and accused my fiance of lying to him by saying he was not working - which he never told them.

Fed up of them. Waiting for the next call so I can tell them to feck off

Any ideas who/ where/ what they are?

Thanks

Have tried to find out the other companies registered there with no luck, as yet.

Just got a call from the UK Debt Info company.

Fantastic effort from the guy that recorded the message. Priceless!

Reading from above, my experiences are a summation of the above.

I feel quite angry though that some person is going to fall for these numpties gambits. I’ve read the above in terms of stopping the problem at receipt. What can we do to stop these criminals at source?

I’m in between jobs so quite happy to follow up any suggestions.

cheers

As a tax payer Come on OFCOM/Info Commissioner do something about these people wasting my time, effort and tax payers money.