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[BobTheCrate]

I went bollistic at him like, cheeky tw*t.

I sure hope I never get on the wrong side of you Sally !

Hell hath no fury indeed.

[ihatetelxl]

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.

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?

**** '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.

[Sysman]

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.

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.

[Board Game Geek]

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.

[tim123]

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.

That'll be the 15 pound fixed charge number :-)

tim

[tim123]

08700679834

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!

Complain to the regulator. It's this one:

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.

tim

[Ardesco]

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.

[expat]

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!

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.

[ihatetelxl]

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!

[hattra]

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.

[Ivor1]

Its a power dialer, dials loads of numbers once its gets a ring tone it should whack it to a call operator, if no call operator around it should play a message, think its illegal if no message.

I had the one recently where they called and I could someone say 'hello, hello' as if they couldnt hear me then put phone down, had it 5 times in two weeks, it was a scam as the return number was a premium rate.

[MarillionFan]

That looks like the number my missus was on about. It went on for about two weeks until eventually one day someone was on the other end of the phone.

My GF then proceeded to have a go at the chap and lo and behold - he cut her off.

Incredible.

[Pondlife]

http://www.stevecastledine.com/sc.ns...ument&comments

That's all I could find with google. Anyone tried with SKA?

[SallyAnne]

08700679834

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!

I was with Vodaphone, and got so sick of them charging me a fortune I switched to Orange (who are just as crap, but its new crap, so its immediately better).
Vodaphone had automatically extended my contract, and I had to WRITE to them giving them 30 days notice to cancel!
So I did, and a guy from Vodaphone rang me up and started having a massive go at me down the phone, basically calling me stupid for changing providers. He was shouting at me in the end man- very very strong sales technique. I went bollistic at him like, cheeky tw*t.

Also on that phone, I get calls exactly like the ones you're experiencing - when I call back there is no one there. I've only done it once like - I have a feeling its a scam of some sort.

[andy]

i get called from india all the time to renew my mobile contract