Tyrant Posted May 19, 2016 Share Posted May 19, 2016 Recently I've been plagued with calls from all over the UK from folk who seem to want to help me claim compensation for accidents that I've supposedly had in my car. Sometimes they even specify a date. Unless you suffer a pretty severe head injury you're going to fucking remember if you were involved in an accident! What's even more annoying is that some pricks are passing on your details. The last one today has my full name, address and (previous) car details. I contacted my insurer (as the car has only ever been insured with them) and they say they never give out any details. So the only other folk it could be are the DVLA. So I'm going to have to get on the blower to them and accuse them accordingly. My old man's land line gets hogged by nuisance callers too. Many of them end up being recorded messages. They don't even give you the time of day after you've given them yours! Anyone managed to successfully remove themselves from cold callers' lists? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigAl Posted May 19, 2016 Share Posted May 19, 2016 Register with TPS. Worked for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyrant Posted May 19, 2016 Author Share Posted May 19, 2016 I registered both my and my old man's numbers with them back in 2014 and it's not made any difference. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manc_don Posted May 19, 2016 Share Posted May 19, 2016 I very rarely get them, but if I do it's on my mobile rather than landline as I'm x-directory. Something appears to have changed in terms of my mobile though as I didn't used to get any sales calls until late last year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scotfree Posted May 21, 2016 Share Posted May 21, 2016 It's really bad over here in Oz. I'm on the do not call list as well..... I've had ones from the accident mob and the Microsoft cunts as well. Worst thing about It is that It's usually the old yins that fall for It. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tom_widdows Posted May 21, 2016 Share Posted May 21, 2016 Mistake we made was switching from Virgin to BT. The only nuisance calls we had before the switch was from Virgin asking us to upgrade but there was only about 4 a year. Soon as the BT switch was complete (bastards wouldn't let us keep the old number) we started getting calls about replacement boilers/ insulation improvements and bizarrely from the Scottish Labour party which revealed the number we had been given was previously used by what i presume to be an elderly couple about 3miles up the road. Whilst Labour took us off their list the others are persistent to the point we now unplug the phone until the weekends. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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