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I'm ex directory and on Telephone Preference Service and still get sales calls!

tlc said:
Once they did that to me, said my computer was currently causing issues and they wanted to run a check and see. None of those callers are worth my time, but it could have been fun to call their bluff. Considering I have dialup the only way I could be verbally talking to them would be to have my computer disconnected.
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I've had a couple of those some years back. Got so I'd taunt them by waiting for them to finish their spiel so I could tell them I'm a Linux user and not Microsoft. They'd hang up before I could. :p
 
So scary! I feel WAY more safe with my iPad tablet then when I used Microsoft computers.
 
How would I know ? It’s never happened. But virus happened on my Microsoft computers at least once a year.
 
If you live in the UK & if I recall correctly.. every time your number leaks or is given to a website that is untrustworthy in that those websites allowed your number to be sold/shared/stolen/hacked stealthily.. then you have to reapply for the Telephone Preference Service. So that the block list that applies to you is updated... hopefully..
 
Wow...just got a robocall on Sunday. That almost never happens. Oh well, most robocalls I get are immediately forwarded into telephone oblivion, courtesy of "Nomorobo". :)

Yet the pattern remains familiar. The closer you get to the income tax filing deadline in April the more scammers try to press unsuspecting victims by phone.

I suppose the assumption is purely psychological...that people are rattled with the stress of a deadline and dealing with personal finances...so one more problem might make them falter in some way.

But it won't be me. :cool:
 
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Meh, I just Googled the TPS website, and clicked on the register link and it went to a 404 page.

Link.
 
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Mary Anne said:
The "Federal No-Call List" only “protects a number for 5 years,” and then one must register all over again.
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Not any more...

"Registrations never expire. Once you add a number to the Do Not Call Registry, you do not need to register it again."

National Do Not Call Registry

(Not that it really matters these days.) :eek:
 
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Rich Allen said:
https://www.mpsonline.org.uk//invalid.html

404 page when you click "continue" to register, WTF is this?!

I'm using the latest version of Chrome browser on Chrome OS if that makes any difference.
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Can't say I've noticed anyone posting access issues to that domain using Chrome. My systems also show it as a "safe" web link.

Could be a temporary backbone issue within the UK relative to your Internet provider. A server-side rather than a client-side concern. The kind all you can do it wait until resolved.

But if it persists into tomorrow or the next day it may be something else.
 
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