Subscribe Via RSSHow to Stop Nuisance Phone Calls
Are you receiving an avalanche of junk text messages? Are you fed up with junk text messages clogging up your mobile phone?
If the answer to the above is YES then forward all your junk text messages to 7726 to help track down marketing cheats.
- Vodafone users should send junk text to 87726.
Help stop these automated calls and recorded messages being one of the curses of modern life.
Stop to Nuisance Phone Calls
To further help in stopping these nuisance phone calls register your numbers with the Telephone Preference Service (TPS). This bars unsolicited marketing calls on both a home and mobile number.
Unfortunately the Telephone Preference Service cannot stop calls from companies with whom you already have a relationship, or recorded messages. Call 0845 070 0707 or visit TPS online at http://www.tpsonline.org.uk/ctps/number_type.html for further help.
Don’t Want Marketing Calls?
Don’t opt-in to marketing calls when you are dealing with an organisation for the first time and when giving information online, via telephone or on a paper form.
Consider the information you are giving away carefully. Ask yourself, “do they really need this information to process my …” and be careful with tick boxes. Some firms require you to tick a box to opt out of marketing calls, others ask that you leave it blank.
- If you receive a marketing text message from a company number you know, or from a ‘short code’ number (usually five digits), then text back ‘STOP’.
- If the text is from an unknown number, do not respond. That may tell the sender they have an active number and potentially open number to even more messages, just forward the message to 7726.
