Bl00dy power diallers - we had one some years ago that was so persistent that we thought we had a crank caller - we complained to BT & finally the Police, who traced it to a power dialler based in Eire - it took nearly two years to sort out, at a rate of at least two calls a day.
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Life is just nature's way of keeping meat fresh
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A thorough search on Google brings up this information about the people who run this scam
TelXL Ltd
Mr Paul Gallini,
2 Chapel Court, Holly Walk, Lemington Spa, CV32 4YS
Tel: 07966 202 150
Fax: 01926452640
Nigel Fox
84 Stanbrook Road
Monkspath
Solihull
West Midlands
B90 4US
Tel 0121 2466733.
Been Missed Call scammed by 08700 679 834 or similar?
Phone the director Paul Gallini on his mobile 07966 202 150,
or Nigel Fox at home on 0121 2466733 to complain!Comment
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I really don't think you should give out addresses like that. Some miscreants might be tempted to make use of this information in a way that you wouldn't like.Originally posted by ihatetelxlComment
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Hmm i had something like this today from 07061764155. When you call back it answer immeadiatly and plays a ringing sound as if it is trying to connect you somewhere.
I put it down to spammy crap and hung up.Comment
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Complain to the regulator. It's this one:Originally posted by DaveB08700679834
whoever it is has phoned me 4 times in the last week and when I answer there is never anyone there.
On a related subject, how many times do I have to tell my phone provider I dont want to extend my contract, I dont want a new phone and I dont want them to keep ringing me up to ask me if I want them!
http://www.ico.gov.uk/
AIUI under the TPS it is an offence for a company to ring someone who has asked not to be rung, even if they aren't TPS registered.
timComment
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That'll be the 15 pound fixed charge number :-)Originally posted by Ardesco
timComment
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Is it somehow possible to do the following ?
Spam number calls you. You record the number.
You dial the number back and using some sort of tonal generator or whatever, get it to present to you a dial tone.
You then make it dial your own premium rate number.
Yeah, illegal I suppose, but just wondered. I once found a program many years ago, that played high pitch noises over the speakers. The instructions were to hold a phone next to the speakers. Lo and behold, it rang a number of my chosing using DTMF tones. Clever stuff.Last edited by Board Game Geek; 4 December 2006, 01:40.Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
C.S. LewisComment
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Going back to the early 90s, a colleague found that US phone menu systems wouldn't respond to a British phone. He bought a small gadget which you could hold to the phone mouthpiece and bash the desired numbers into.Originally posted by Board Game GeekBehold the warranty -- the bold print giveth and the fine print taketh away.Comment
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And how would that be worse than ringing a sequential list of numbers, not caring whether they opted in or are registered with TPS, then hanging up immediately so that the calls call back at £1.50/minute only to hear "please wait while we try to connect you ((ring ring)) ((ring ring))", to make thousands of pounds from innocent victims?Originally posted by expat
**** 'em - they deserve everything they get.
Been Missed Call scammed by 08700 679 834 or similar?
Phone the director Paul Gallini on his mobile 07966 202 150,
or Nigel Fox at home on 0121 2466733 to complain!
or if you manage to answer the call - waste their time for as long as you possibly can.Last edited by ihatetelxl; 5 December 2006, 13:04.Comment
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I sure hope I never get on the wrong side of you Sally !Originally posted by SallyAnne
Hell hath no fury indeed.Comment
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