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True Call Nuisance Call Service 0333 8888 8888
May 8^th, 2015 at 6:39pm

Relatively new service i have seen a number of Trading Standard Departments recommending.

" Do you get annoyed when you fill in a form and have to enter your phone number even when you know that the company doesn’t really need it?

What are they going to do with it? Who will they give it to?

Your privacy is valuable – protect your phone number with trueCall38!

The solution: enter our phone number 0333 88 88 88 88 (that’s three threes, eight eights) as your phone number, and if, or rather when, they call, those cold call culprits will hear our short but sweet recorded message:-

      "trueCall38 is handling my calls. I prefer not to be contacted
      by phone, so please contact me via my email address.
      Goodbye!" "

http://www.truecall38.co.uk/

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Reply #1 - May 8^th, 2015 at 6:50pm

Nothing to stop you doing this sort of thing yourself.

EG. Get a cheap 01/02/3 number from someone like www.flextel.com put it on voicemail response only,leave a suitable voicemail message .
Whats more it will email you who has called in case its important.

Or you could do the same with a payg mobile number.

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Reply #2 - May 8^th, 2015 at 10:51pm

bigjohn wrote on May 8^th, 2015 at 6:50pm:

Nothing to stop you doing this sort of thing yourself. …

Indeed not.

One advantage of using the trueCall service is that they will aim to monitor those who call these numbers, as they do with calls trapped by the trueCall "call blocking" devices.

This could provide valuable intelligence for the enforcement agencies that prohibit use of unsolicited telephone marketing, rather than relying on the efforts of many individuals, to collect the data and present it in a consistent and usable form.

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Reply #3 - May 9^th, 2015 at 5:23am

SilentCallsVictim wrote on May 8^th, 2015 at 10:51pm:

bigjohn wrote on May 8^th, 2015 at 6:50pm:

Nothing to stop you doing this sort of thing yourself. …

Indeed not.

One advantage of using the trueCall service is that they will aim to monitor those who call these numbers, as they do with calls trapped by the trueCall "call blocking" devices.

This could provide valuable intelligence for the enforcement agencies that prohibit use of unsolicited telephone marketing, rather than relying on the efforts of many individuals, to collect the data and present it in a consistent and usable form.

Yes their is that good point.

And of course it enables them to sell more products.

From the FAQ section :

"Do you have a trueCall38 mobile number?

Watch this space ...

I'd like a set of personal trueCall38 numbers – are these available?

We are building a service that will allow you to buy personal ‘disposable' phone numbers that you can control from an App. You can give them out, and then redirect them to either your own phone number or voicemail (in which case you are notified when a message is received). When you no longer need the number you can just turn it off, and callers won't be able to get through to you (but you can still monitor their calls).Keep coming back to this web site to check for the availability of this service! "

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Heinz Supreme Member Offline Posts: 1,362 Essex	Re: True Call Nuisance Call Service 0333 8888 8888 Reply #4 - May 9^th, 2015 at 2:43pm I thought 03 numbers were, like standard phone numbers, all 11 digits, not 12.
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Reply #5 - May 9^th, 2015 at 5:48pm

Heinz wrote on May 9^th, 2015 at 2:43pm:

I thought 03 numbers were, like standard phone numbers, all 11 digits, not 12.

They have added an extra 8 at the end. I presume its merely for cosmetic purposes. The number answers after you have dialled seven 8,s.

They indicate it could cause problems on their site.

" Note: Some online forms are very fussy and won't accept the full trueCall38 number. If the number is rejected then enter 0333 8888 888 (three threes, seven eights). "

I know a company who did the same thing to make their mobile number look better . It ended 12312 they added a 3 to the end to get 123 123. It rang after 12. Some forms would not accept it and the networks would not send texts to it.

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