Has anyone received a call from a recorded message saying it's a government initiative phone call for people with £5000 debt or more? The professional sounding recorded message says that they can pay the debt and interest is written off?
At this point you are invited to press 5 on your telephone and you're put through to a representative.
First of all this recorded message auto dialler is illegal to operate without the prior consent of the recipient under Regulation 19 of the Privacy and Electronic Communication Regulations 2003 requires that companies or organisations making automated marketing telephone calls have the prior consent of the subscribers they are calling.
Unfortunately this call is made out side of the UK (usually from India or USA) and therefore isn't subject to our legislation.
Although I'm not stupid enough to press button 5 on my phone, I do know what actually happens if you do. I've found a lot about this call and it's is becoming a national problem. The UK government says that they have nothing what so ever to do with this call and digging about it transpires to be a private company who basically either lend you even more money and therefore increase your debt, place you in a repayment schedule and charge enormous amounts of money to basically managed repayments for your debt or subscribe you to an ISA.
The sales team are aggressive with their ways and continuously phone you up at home and work until you submit and buy their products. There are stories on the net that mobile phones are being targeted as well as ex directory lines.
The Telephone Preference Service is powerless to do anything about this because they can only deal with phone calls from people and are powerless if the call is a recorded playback.
Many people up and down the country are reporting having a call three or four times a day every day. I'm not surprised at all as we are now getting two calls a day every day and sometimes as late as 11pm
You can try and report this abuse to your telephone company but from what I've found out they'll charge you £20 a quater to stop these phone calls.
So let me know if you start to get these phone calls and perhaps something can be done about it if enough complain.
At this point you are invited to press 5 on your telephone and you're put through to a representative.
First of all this recorded message auto dialler is illegal to operate without the prior consent of the recipient under Regulation 19 of the Privacy and Electronic Communication Regulations 2003 requires that companies or organisations making automated marketing telephone calls have the prior consent of the subscribers they are calling.
Unfortunately this call is made out side of the UK (usually from India or USA) and therefore isn't subject to our legislation.
Although I'm not stupid enough to press button 5 on my phone, I do know what actually happens if you do. I've found a lot about this call and it's is becoming a national problem. The UK government says that they have nothing what so ever to do with this call and digging about it transpires to be a private company who basically either lend you even more money and therefore increase your debt, place you in a repayment schedule and charge enormous amounts of money to basically managed repayments for your debt or subscribe you to an ISA.
The sales team are aggressive with their ways and continuously phone you up at home and work until you submit and buy their products. There are stories on the net that mobile phones are being targeted as well as ex directory lines.
The Telephone Preference Service is powerless to do anything about this because they can only deal with phone calls from people and are powerless if the call is a recorded playback.
Many people up and down the country are reporting having a call three or four times a day every day. I'm not surprised at all as we are now getting two calls a day every day and sometimes as late as 11pm
You can try and report this abuse to your telephone company but from what I've found out they'll charge you £20 a quater to stop these phone calls.
So let me know if you start to get these phone calls and perhaps something can be done about it if enough complain.