getting tissed off with silent phone calls

looks like some marketing company has got hold of my telephone number as they now ring btween 5-10 times a day we dont even answer anymore as its always silent,, after speaking to bt i have joined bt preference service and silent call gaurd to try and stop these ******s. the number is "08001218000" so if you see this number on your phone you need to get it blocked asap as its just pc generated from a call cntr they ring 100 numbers at a time get through to one and leave the other 99 on silent. is anyone else getting these or if you had in the past what did you do. ill give it till wkend and if it continues ill have to change my number

 

Try www.mpsonline.org.uk/tps/ You use MPS to stop receiving junk mail and TPS to stop receiving junk phone calls.

 

I even get the phone ring and its not silent, I wish it was, I get recorded messages.
Just signed up David, thanks.

 

david i was already signed up to tps and they still got through. bt have promised that they will try and stop it in the next 48 hours and if that doesnt work i can buy a blocker box for 59 quid . like hell i can i bet once i say im leaving i get it for free thats what usually happens . after searching the number on the internet this looks like to be a bigger problem than i thought

 

I have to admit, once I signed up all cr*p calls have stopped. The same with the junk mail. But there again, we are not with BT, we`re on cable.

 

Thankfully i dont seem to get the silent ones as my calls are diverted and this takes about 5 seconds.

Its usually the fake charitys I get, being a business number Im plauged with them and as calls to my landline are diverted i get charged the divert cost.

Ive found the best thing is to simply interupt them and say politely if your trying to sell me something then the answers no, most hang up before I do! if they still persit then I sudgest they go forth and multiply:D

 

i used to be inundated with calls for different people from companies, then i had a stroke of luck, i was banned from ebay because the person who owed lots of money had kept my new number (there old one) on their ebay file - so i rang BT and told them the number thay had given me was causing a whole load of problems and i asked for a new number -- thye didnt want to give me a new one so i said well i'm joining another comapny then, i got a new number and no more calls, and my ebay back. so have a word with your phone provider and say you'll go elsewhere.

 

shall be doing its a pain in the butt

 

I have had these calls before, very annoying i did the same as you have bt preference dont get them anymore

 

since i changed to talk talk (free broadband with them btw!) i get come back to bt letters all the time!

do you realise bt charge you �£4.50 just to pay your bill?

 

We have a strange person phone us .
It goes in waves, we can get 5 or 6 a day then nothing for a week or so.
They never speak just make noises down the phone.
The number in on 1471.
We did have a night one at 1.10 in the morning so I phoned BT .
They said they can put a block on the call but we have to get 3 night calls first.
They didn't say anything about a charge for doing it.
We are TPS registered.

 

I've had these calls if you hang on someone will eventually answer it's usually a call center in india, the person asks if you are mr whoever thats as far as they get,in a very firm voice I ask them what their name is what they are selling tell them i'm not interested and not to ring again, seems to work for a few weeks, if you don't answer and the connection is not made it automatically rings at regular intervals.

 

Shiney, it may take a couple of months to stop these calls,but if you DON`T sign up then the calls never stop.