Falcon & Pointer Loses Licence Over 40M Nuisance Calls

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-west-wales-35292751

A modest victory for the small man, although a neighbour of mine has lost his job there.

Just goes to show that if enough of us complain, often enough, we can win in the end.

[TWR]

I see nothing has been said about the stress these company's inflict on people, along with the fine these people should be fined for each Individual call that's been done.

[mikey4444]

TWR...this Company, and others have plagued me over the last 2 years and that's for sure !

But I hope people will take on my advice about complaining....if we all did it, the authorities would have no option but to act.

[TWR]

Mikey, Been there with these calls, done my own research into PPI, Regained £1400, It's a very simple process to go through, people do not need the help of these Scammers, they take money for a bit of looking which each person can do themselves.

[mushroom25]

from the report:-

//Under new laws being introduced by the UK government, direct marketing companies will soon have to display their phone numbers to customers - companies that do not will face fines of up to £500,000.//

that bit of legislation is an empty vessel. today the nuisance calls I get on a depressingly regular basis do display their numbers, but they don't in fact come from where the number suggests - the ability to "spoof" phone numbers has existed for some time.

[TWR]

Mushroom, you can put a stop to these calls by purchasing a B.T. Nuisance call blocker phone, we had calls from my Uncle in Africa telling me I have a share in a gold mine, won a million on a lottery, won a car, the phone was worth every penny of the cost and very easy to set up.

[mikey4444]

Mush...I agree 100%.

Its just a way for the Authorities to pretend to do something, while in actual fact, doing nothing whatsoever....window dressing, that is all.

TWR...you are of course correct and I did the same. But these fraudsters target the old and vulnerable and that is why they need to be driven out of business.

[whiskeryron]

A technique passed on from a friend proved to be pretty good, if you receive a cold caller offering to sell you something say sorry I will have to leave you for a moment there is someone at the front door & leave the caller hanging on. Return to the phone later & hopefully your cold caller has run up a huge phone bill.

[mushroom25]

//Mushroom, you can put a stop to these calls by purchasing a B.T. Nuisance call blocker phone.... //

that's only effective if the scammers use the same indicated number; they don't. i've had calls from the same company (selling alleged fine wines) purporting to be from manchester, kidderminster, norwich, inverness and reading, to name but a few. with a number blocking phone, the scammers will always be a step ahead of you and you'll forever being adding new numbers to the list.

[TWR]

Never had a problem since this phone was set up Mush.

[jno]

poor guys, it can't be easy trying to hire Welshmen to make nuisances of themselves...

[mikey4444]

LOL jno !

[TWR]

Hoi Jno, I'll report you to the Discrimination board lol lol