Ofcom complains

The phone rings. I pick it up and say hello. There's no-one there. I put it down.

And the problem is?

Steve

The message from "shazzbat" contains these words:

The problem is when it does it several times at night. Normally I'd just leave it off the hook but Mum was in hospital with a suspected stroke so that wasn't an option.

Anyway - it's clearly someone maliciously trying to get people to ring his personal number - he probably knows about it by now!

Spamming a car group with un-related email by people like this is the problem.

I see this idiot's number is available I'd call him up and tell him not to do this.

But I will call up and hang up at least 50 times before doing so.

Registration with the TPS sorted mine.

Hmm. It may well be. But where? Links?

If you can get that sort of thing so wrong, how effective is any 'campaign' likely to be???

I've never found OFCOM at all useful in any problems I've ever had. It's either not their problem or they can't do anything about it.

The message from "Garland" contains these words:

You don't seriously reckon it's the person who's phone number is shown doing the spamming, do you? It's someone pissed off at him trying to make his life miserable.

Silent Calls Victim wrote on Tue, 03 Jan 2006

I've followed your campaign (or is that obsession) with vauge interest in uk.telecom, but it's rather off-topic for uk.rec.cars.maintenance, don't you think?

I would certainly say that spam is a worse problem than silent calls, just going by the relative amounts I recieve.

Please, stop multi-posting this, before I start my own campaign...

Guy King wrote on Tue, 3 Jan 2006 13:17:25 GMT:

No, in this case, I do beleive that he is for real. If you look back through uk.telecom, there's a lot of history...

I'd call him up, but not tell him anything. Let him think he is getting a silent call.