Quote:Personally I find registering with the TPS to be more than adequate rather than going through all this rigmarole.
But if you really have nothing better to do with your time than jump through all these elaborate hoops top make a phone call then that's entirely up to you.
0866 numbers are not yet regulated in the UK because the calls originate abroad; the Information Commissioner is still looking into how to deal with them. As far as the TPS, even if they find a way to include them numbers, all the overseas companies will claim is they were trying to contact a Mr Smith (who never existed) at your number.
My problem is that I live in an area where everyone has two or three part time jobs and has time off in the middle of the day. These calls usually happen at around lunchtime between 12noon and 2pm UK time in our area.
If I don't answer, they let the phone ring for half an hour (literally) before their computer terminates the call. If I do answer (whether I say hello or nothing) then it takes 30 seconds for the call to hangup, and about 20 minutes later a different 0866 number calls.
Changing telephone number does not help as they are apparently targetting the entire exchange and will ring again sooner or later.
I consider that to be harrassment (and indeed in the USA it is illegal to "cause the phone to continuously ring" and that is rigidly enforced - but not in the UK). I only managed to get rid of the calls using the answering machine trick above, and even then they ring 2-3 times a month. The triple beep in the answering machine is what deters them.