Well, it is a freephone number so you could call them (from a BT landline or BT payphone) - using 141 if you so wish.
And they have identified themselves by providing the 0800 number.
Of course it might be a false one that is not working?

Thanks for doing the legwork that I was too lazy to do; I assumed this was going to be some sort of overseas approach or maybe a scam.  As I am TPS registered, should they be calling me at all?   Or does passing the gig on to a third-party exploit a loophole of some sort?  Thinking about it, maybe I didn't (or did) tick or not cross a box on a form in this or a previous existence, so they've probably got me.

Anyhoo, I shall nevertheless continue to ignore them - if the "blue chip" wants to talk to me badly enough, it will take the time to make a proper approach.


As an aside, CPM's Head Office is about 4 miles away and employs local people.  I'm sure that someone I know must know of someone (or who knows someone who knows  yadayada ya) who works for them; perhaps I can glean some more info as to why they do it this way.

Thanks again.

a very nice man wrote on Aug 10^th, 2006 at 10:39pm:

I'm surprise they weren't replaced with ones advertising an 0870 number!