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Tea time again and the phone goes, no-one there, just about to starting enjoying you tea, & again the phone goes, *** Hell, you pick it up, good evening Sir / Madam "Can We" You put the phone down, we are on the TPS Apart from that, would you go as far as suing them for harassment? I am thinking of doing so, we should not have to put up with these calls.
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You need to put this into the Law forum.
But my thoughts are that the TPS is a voluntary code of practice isn't it ? You can complain, but only a legal eagle could tell you if you have a case for harassment. Surely each of these calls is from a different caller ? Is a single call harassment ?
As for foreign countries, I'd hate to think how far an individual would get. Identifying the caller is difficult enough, but then you have to deal with a foreign legal system.
Do as folk suggest. Don't answer international or withheld number calls. Can one get the phone company to block these automatically ?
As for domestic country callers, get yourself one of those blockers that come with a list of known spam callers, and to which you can add numbers as you receive and identify them, so they can't disturb you from that calling number a second time.
But my thoughts are that the TPS is a voluntary code of practice isn't it ? You can complain, but only a legal eagle could tell you if you have a case for harassment. Surely each of these calls is from a different caller ? Is a single call harassment ?
As for foreign countries, I'd hate to think how far an individual would get. Identifying the caller is difficult enough, but then you have to deal with a foreign legal system.
Do as folk suggest. Don't answer international or withheld number calls. Can one get the phone company to block these automatically ?
As for domestic country callers, get yourself one of those blockers that come with a list of known spam callers, and to which you can add numbers as you receive and identify them, so they can't disturb you from that calling number a second time.
I appreciate your comments, but these calls never used to happen, it's only within the last 4 > 5 years ago since these calls started, why should we have to purchase Blockers and the likes? we do have a rights regards Privacy & I think these callers are invading our Privacy by unwanted calls, correct me if I'm wrong.
>>>the TPS is a voluntary code of practice isn't it ?
No it isn't. The Privacy and Electronic (EC Directive) Regulations 2003 place a legal obligation upon businesses to comply with the provisions of the register.
This link is about still receiving unsolicited calls after registering with TPS:
http://
The complaints procedure is here:
https:/
As a criminal offence (as defined by the Protection from Harassment Act 1997) a successful prosecution can only be brought when it can be shown that the actions undertaken by the defendant were both
(a) repeated ; and
(b) targeted against a specific individual.
It's likely that a civil court would use similar guidelines, so the chances of successful civil action against a caller for harassment would appear to be extremely slim.
No it isn't. The Privacy and Electronic (EC Directive) Regulations 2003 place a legal obligation upon businesses to comply with the provisions of the register.
This link is about still receiving unsolicited calls after registering with TPS:
http://
The complaints procedure is here:
https:/
As a criminal offence (as defined by the Protection from Harassment Act 1997) a successful prosecution can only be brought when it can be shown that the actions undertaken by the defendant were both
(a) repeated ; and
(b) targeted against a specific individual.
It's likely that a civil court would use similar guidelines, so the chances of successful civil action against a caller for harassment would appear to be extremely slim.
I used to ask if they would hang on for a second as I was just answering a knock at my door. I would then just leave the phone off the hook and carry on watching tv. My kids used to take a guess as to how long they would hang on before holding up.
Other times when they asked "good evening sir, how are you today?" I would go into a long discussion about my health problems and see how long I could keep THEM on the phone for.
Don't have a land line now.
Other times when they asked "good evening sir, how are you today?" I would go into a long discussion about my health problems and see how long I could keep THEM on the phone for.
Don't have a land line now.
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