Another possibility to prevent using the plain text list as a list of people to call is to provide honeypot numbers, unique to each telemarketer [ citation needed ]. If a telemarketer, or anyone he has given the list to, then calls one of the honeypot numbers, stiff penalties can be applied to the telemarketer. If the originating number of a violating call is either foreign or disguised, the CRTC could apply the penalties to the telco which delivered the call to the subscriber's line since that telco acted as an agent of the telemarketer by delivering the call.
Canada's National Do Not Call List
The service notified callers selected by the user from a list of available businesses that the individual exercised his or her right under privacy laws not to receive communications from the notified business. It was intended to cover those organizations excluded from the DNCL. In , iOptOut. It has not been in operation since, and as of 2 August , iOptOut. The service is limited to screening telemarketing from participating companies only. After registration , it takes six weeks to be effective and lasts for three years but is only for mail distributions.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. For similar registries in other countries, see Do not call list. Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission. Retrieved 2 October Ottawa: Parliament of Canada. Archived from the original on 27 April Michael Geist website. Retrieved 17 January CBC News.
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I stated they are not to call us again and to delete our number from their records. I checked the caller's number on and found it was Posted By: Carol Springer. I told her I was about to go online to check this out and she offered to hold! I asked her how much this service would cost me and and when told the amount, said No thank you These calls are constant but thankfully I am pretty wise to them now but I do feel for some people who are sometimes to polite to just hang up or get caught out by these people.
Posted By: Mick. Please be aware that even if you return the box after a month or three there is a follow up call to say that you only cancelled the box but not the service.
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My wife had changed her card after the first time when we got no refund and realised we had been scammed but they gave her the first four numbers of the new card convincing her to supply the rest of the details. We have now contacted the bank and they cancelled her card and passed our case to their fraud department, old duffers caught twice that's us.
We had sent the box back within seven days with a covering letter so be aware of this second call. Posted By: Dianne R. I've just had a scam call from 'Tom' in an Indian call centre calling themselves the 'National Do Not Call Register' saying they are a government backed scheme to stop nuisance calls as the TPS service isn't working! They give you a call centre number of which is currently reported as a scam number. Posted By: Sarah Mitchell.
Said 'never heard of it ' and hung up. Posted By: Jemma. I just had the donotcall. I said I wasn't interested and they said it's something the government have made mandatory and my line will be disconnected without it, I argued this and got transferred to a manager who gave me the same spiel. I said it's a load of rubbish and the manager got angry and started shouting swear words and horrible words at me and so i hung up! I would love to put in a complaint but cant seem to find the company details?
Posted By: Sue Morcumb. Have been with them for 2 years, so it is no wonder that I am still getting hundreds of Nuisance Calls still. Thank you for your update. Who can you trust these days, I must admit I do not use my Landline anymore or answer it,as it is a waste of time. Posted By: Christine Williams. I am not surprised to see here that it is a SCAM!!!! Posted By: Sandra Willmore.
I have just finished being spoken to at speed by an Indian sounding woman, called 'Sandra' from Bournemouth. She said her company was, 'Do Not Call. Lots of fast speaking about a small black box to be fixed to back of phone etc Posted By: Tim Turner. Just had a call from We understand that even though you are registered with TPS you are still receiving a large volume of nuisance calls. We are going to add you to our register and send you a box which will prevent these calls" At this point I said, "No, thank you, I do not want to be on your database or to pay you any money.
I do not respond to cold calls, but if you send me the deatils through the post I will make up my own mind. Don't stand for this nonsense! How ironic, a con based a con! Posted By: Donna Gillan. Posted By: Jos. Posted By: Girish. Oh, I find that a bit scary. At least the phone callers you can have a bit of fun - I hand the phone over to the three year old, or practice my funny accents. You have changed my vision of living the life.
Do not call Register. Posted By: Hilary Webster.
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I also had a call from this Do not call register on Monday 2nd feb from an Indian accented lady saying her name was Christine and the company was based in Bournemouth. She must have got my details from my comment to Ofgem via the TPS line. I resisted, saying I never gave this out to any organisation I didn't know and would check first and ring her back.
This she didn't like so I hung up with her still going on. Haven't rung back. I'm a pensioner but not one who can be pushed around, fortunately. Posted By: David Parker. I have called the police and bank feel so stupid. Posted By: Clare. They rang us at 7am this morning Wednesday 4th February , the irony of receiving such a call at this time in the morning was not entirely lost on us - especially as we are already on the TPS and have been for years. Needless to say the conversation didn't progress too far Posted By: Paula Perkins.
Posted By: Patrick Ohrn. At or about P. He was very aggressive with me, and after promising me the world, said I had to give a credit card verification number my credit card number He insisted that the he did not want the credit card number which he claimed was only a verification number, the first four he had but the next 9 which are usually xx. Like a fool I, after much arguing that I would not give him my number, I gave it to him.
I hung up on him but he phoned me back and I, unfortunately relented. Realizing my stupidity, I phone my bank and cancelled my card.
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He also gave me an number and insisted this was a national toll free number which is a bogus. He caught me at a real weak moment. If you was Call Blocking, contact your phone company.
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Posted By: P. I have just been contacted by a man named Charles with the same comments as the people below. I was told it was 1. I have just contacted my bank and cancelled the payment. I will return the box unopened. Posted By: Elaine Pearson. I have also had the same call today. A woman with an Indian accent called Caroline!!! I told Brad!!! I didn't get to the payment details but would never have given my bank info over the phone to someone like this. What worries me is the 's of elderly people who will probably be taken in by this. Posted By: Stewart McCormick.
By the sound of the caller, "Barry", he was based in India. This seemed very dubious to me and made me wonder whether the box would be able to overhear calls. The final nail in the coffin was when I was asked to provide card details over the phone, and this on an unsolicited call! Posted By: Margaret Smith. When asked how the'box'worked, I was told it was preprogrammed to exclude unwelcome calls - impossible!