Re: [OT] Phone Spam (was: Re: [Hampshire] Just checking)

> Dr Adam J Trickett wrote:
>>
>> At least we don't get phone calls trying to sell things in the evenings
>> at the moment...!
>>
>>
>
> There's a BT service you can subscribe to (for free) that effectively
> removes you from the list that cold-callers use. Unfortunately I have
> forgotten how to enable it - it has been an age since we did it - but it
> is worth the effort of find ing it out. We get perhaps one or two calls
> a month from off-shore firms now, where we were getting called on a
> daily basis prior to opting out.
>

The service is BT Privacy:

http://www.productsandservices.bt.com/consumerProducts/displayProduct.do?productId=CON-3399&s_cid=con_FURL_privacy

But you can just register with the TPS yourself which should stop all UK
calls:

http://www.tpsonline.org.uk/tps/