Are other AV and GS readers being plagued and pestered by ‘phone calls we receive at any odd times from people trying to sell their goods and services or companies asking you to participate in their surveys?
These calls have the habit of taking you by surprise at inopportune moments while you are having dinner or are in company or watching your favorite TV programmes.
Recently, I have started receiving calls purporting to come from a well known firm where the caller says that £60 per month subscription will be taken from my account unless I unsubscribe.
To unsubscribe, I would need to give my details. I gave details of my name and address but when he asked for my bank account number and branch, I thought that something was fishy and put the phone down.
What can one do in these circumstances? I hate phone calls which interrupt my evening, especially when someone is trying to sell me something. I understand that there are websites which profess that they can stop these calls.
However I am skeptical about them working for me. I now pick up the phone and keep it off the hook. This way the callers would incur call charges and would stop them ringing again. I also ask the caller what was in it for me.
I hope these tactics would work. Other readers may have some other tricks up their sleeve and may want to share them with us.
Dinesh Sheth
Newbury Park, Ilford
