So recently, I think from Friday, we keep getting International phone calls asking if they can do a survey, Got about 3 on Saturday, 1 yesterday, and waiting for one today surely!
Just wondering if anyone knows how to get rid of this? It's clear that somebody's sold off our details, or I think my dad might have signed up for something on the internet, as he's getting 10x of the spam email in his inbox (could be due to the fact his ISP is 'Supanet') but it just seems odd.
Any help from you guys would be great. =)
Phone calls and emails.
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Ebeneezer Scrooge
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TPS doesn't stop phone surveys, but as they are international calls, that isn't likely to help much anyway. Chances are your details have been sold.
Snarky
Simple. If you got a phone that displays the number that's calling you, don't answer anything that's "international" or "withheld." If a member of your family does that 141 thing before phoning, tell them to not do it when they phone you. If my bank desparately needs to get hold of me, they phone me on my mobile, not home phone.
Set up a special signal. If it's your dad ringing you, tell him "ring twice or three times, hang up, then ring again." - it was the code my mother used back in the day. Might cost him an extra cent or two in call charges but it's worth it to screen out the crap.Nate J wrote:We've already got a phone that displays it, but because I get a lot of calls from America, and my dad has business over there, can't really screen them, but I do like the idea of using the mobile.
Cheers for the help.
Now this is terribly interesting.
I have for some time been getting (quite frequent) wrong numbers on my mobile.
At least I thought as much, but yesterday I picked up the phone to have the person on the line claiming I had rung him. She was so successful in inducing a sense of guilt in me, going on about how I'd "woken up the whole house" (this by the way is a household that seemingly goes to bed at 9.00 PM, which is when I received the call) that I actually apologised to her.
I do rather regret apologising now, as it happens. But I am starting to wonder if the same situation is what happened with the previous c. 50 "wrong numbers", which is an improvement from thinking they were all insane.
I have for some time been getting (quite frequent) wrong numbers on my mobile.
At least I thought as much, but yesterday I picked up the phone to have the person on the line claiming I had rung him. She was so successful in inducing a sense of guilt in me, going on about how I'd "woken up the whole house" (this by the way is a household that seemingly goes to bed at 9.00 PM, which is when I received the call) that I actually apologised to her.
I do rather regret apologising now, as it happens. But I am starting to wonder if the same situation is what happened with the previous c. 50 "wrong numbers", which is an improvement from thinking they were all insane.
