General Chat

We have an ansaphone on all the time so rarely take these calls, but sometimes if I am expecting a call I pick up the receiver half way through the message and get offered new boilers etc etc I then tell them we have no central heating, they sound astonished but it's true. Other times I let them waffle and then say Oh I am only staying here I can't help you, byeee.

I will try that 14258 number thanks


Lizx

p.s. I just googled What happens if I dial 14258 after a scam call and there are several comments about this, one seems to intimate it's only through sky and others say you have to add ** after the number.

Have been on 'no cold calls' list since it began but they still get through.

Many people who signed up for the Canadian version of the "no calls list" ended up getting MORE calls :-(


The Canadian Do Not Call list continues to receive heavy criticism, with people referring to it as "totally useless", due to the costly but totally ineffective enforcement, the large number of exempt groups and the ability for anyone from anywhere in the world to purchase sets of phone numbers for relatively low fees, and then abuse the Do Not Call List as a calling list.

There have been multiple examples of people placing themselves on the list, and then receiving a sudden increase in telemarketing calls three months later.


The Do Not Call List exempts ....................

....... Canadian registered charities,

....... political parties,

....... riding associations,

....... political candidates,

....... pollsters

....... newspapers of general circulation for the purpose of soliciting subscriptions.


....... organizations with whom residents have an existing business relationship are also exempt.

....... Telemarketers may also still call if a resident gave them permission in a written form or verbally.


The law also does not extend its protections to non-Canadian phone numbers.

We're on the Oz Do Not Call list... and we can report anyone who calls us. When we get a call from an unknown I now ask them if they know they're breaking the law, and they hang up.

We still get calls from charities.

Got one the other day, the woman said she was from some Aussie charity (can't remember the name) who supported children whose parents weren't well off, then she said I could give money to support a child in ETHIOPIA!! I said Ethiopia wasn't part of Australia, and she got all flustered. Stupid woman. No, I didn't donate.


:-(