to have a HUGE problem with Mortgage Payment Protection Insurance phone calls?

[razzlew6]

Grrr!!!!! Every day I get automated calls from companies telling me I could have a claim against an MPPI company. I never listen to more than 2 secs of them so don't know if there's an option at the end to unsubscribe but I find it SO rude and invasive that I get menaced by these companies who can't even be bothered to pay for a person to call me!!!!!!!! Just got 2 from different companies within 5mins while giving DS his tea. Any idea if I can get these kind of calls blocked??? (am with BT). thanks!

pisses me orf too.

www.bt.com/includingyou/calling-easier-unwanted-calls.html

Home phone security
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BT Privacy at Home ? Control your incoming calls
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** Customers who are billed every three months must make at least six chargeable calls within those three months, otherwise BT reserves the right to charge £8.10 a quarter (customers who are billed monthly must make at least 2 chargeable calls a month otherwise will be charged £2.70 a month).

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let them do their spiel
all the way through

then go
"wha ?" (silent T)
a few times
if they comment
"nah mate, I'm from the baliffs"
you'll be off their list PDQ

Register with the Telephone Preference Service: www.tpsonline.org.uk/ctps/number_type.html
can take a few weeks to take effect, but if the companies ringing are UK based then this should stop them.

It drives me insane that they ring us at work every day (huge company, over 50,000 employees)- we are not allowed to ignore calls, we have to take them, even though we can see they are spam calls. If we don't pick up (eg everyone out of the office at lunch, 1 person manning phones, and stuck ont he phone) then they automatically ring back around 20 mins later, and again, and again.

It makes me so angry that they know we have to pick-up, so they can claim they've rung enough numbers to get their advertising fees (or whatever it is they do to make money) just by dialling all our numbers (which are freely available to the public).

I get these all the time even though we are registered with the TPS. I think they might not be UK-based. Drives me up the wall as well!