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I don't get many calls at work as we normally correspond by email. In the rare occasion when my phone does ring I have recently hesitated and dreaded picking it up especially in the afternoon around 3 o'clock. Why? Well because I am sick and tired of getting cold calls from a T-Mobile call centre in India.
They wanted to offer me a free mobile
No joke, everyone in my department has received one of these calls so far. There was a time when everyone had received their call but me and I started to feel left out. Now I get at least two calls every day.
The first time I got a call, this little Indian voice asked me if I had a mobile. I told them I did. They said they wanted to offer me a free mobile connected to T-mobile. What's the catch I wondered as you don't get anything for free nowadays. So I decided to tell them I wasn't interested and hung up.
The next couple of times they rang I told them I wasn't interested straight away but they still continued to talk obviously to try and change my mind. Some times when they ring and you pick up the phone, the line is actually silent. If you wait long enough you will hear an automated message asking you to hold the line as someone is trying to call you. Then, surprise surprise, you get a distant Indian voice and you know it's them again.
The last time I got this automated message I decided to transfer the call to our fax machine. I must say I did get a sense of satisfaction out of that one!
I am hoping that the calls have actually stopped now because the last call I had was a couple of days ago. This time I actually interrupted them just as they started their spiel and told them to remove my number from their records as this was the fifth phone call I had received and I was sick and tired of receiving calls from them everyday. And guess what happened? They hung up on me. How rude? Well, all I can say is that after this experience I won't even consider a T-Mobile phone as I've not got a very good opinion of them right now.
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Next I received a text saying I had a voice mail, it was BG demanding payment. Then my phone crashed. Two minutes later I received another similar text and my phone crashed again. This went on all evening and night driving me crazy. I could not use it. I deleted old texts and refitted my battery. Next day I phoned BG complaints and they turned these texts off. All was fine.
I am disgusted by their thuggish back street behaviour which has left me quite shaken.
it just comes up as international on my phone. i've just answered the phone again and the woman was offering a free mobile on 3. I said i'm not interested and she said well would anyone else in the house be interested. I said no and was in the middle of telling them to stop calling especially at 7am in the morning and she laughed and hung up. i'm sooooooo mad right now. wish there number came up so I could ring back.
It started over one missed payment in 5 years and when I called the next day to say I would pay by the following Wednesday they agreed, but the calls kept on. Then their FS Escalation team said they would ask if it calls be stopped. Yes, I was told but they only stopped three days after the bill was waived by CPW.
I found a recent case under Protection from Harassment Act 2007: Ferguson v British Gas Trading Ltd [2009] EWCA Civ 46. British Gas applied to have case 'stuck out' basically stop it being considered fully because there was no case to even look at. The three high court judges were quite clear that British Gas were wrong. Very wrong. I will be seeking a lot of money from CPW.
I think it is an automatd call as there is no 0ne there and you cannot even return the call. How do you stop them. I have tried ringing but you get some bored person with a montone voice saying they are very sorry and will put a stop to the calls - they continue!!
Dont even think of using network 3. they have no control mechanism to stop this harrassment.
wakai koi chhez hai is dunia mian ok my ID is Numan_125007@yahoo.com ---pakisatani bucha
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