It's the Telephone Preference Service, if you register with them, it's supposed to result in your number being deleted from all the lists that they sell with everyone's phone numbers on them. It doesn't work completely, though it does reduce the call and if you tell the caller it's a TPS number, they immediately hang up. There's also the MPS(Mail Preference Service) which is supposed to stop all junk mail, but that barely works at all.
I always ponder whether to register or not, but I enjoy taking the piss out of the callers. For example, on Monday I was rang by a sports survey company, and they now think I'm a white british fully practising Sikh, who's a 170lbs midget at 4'4", with one leg who only gets off my bed to exercise by watering the plants on the window ledge for 30 seconds once a day.
At my London flat, they installed a bin under the post boxes, for everyone to throw the junk mail in. They then added an amount to the service charge, to get someone to come and empty it twice a week, so not only did I get mail that I didn't want, but I actually had to pay someone to take it away again. I don't buy take-away pizza's on principal now, I blame them entirely for the cutting down of the Amazonian rainforest.
the only junk mail I get is regarding p*nis enlargement or weight loss. anyone know how to divert emails from junk into inbox? :-( thought most of phonejacker wasn't funny but the Nigerian bloke with the offer that was too good to be true parody was pretty much spot on.
From junk to inbox? If you're on hotmail just tick the box next to the email and then click on "this is not junk". If it's the other way round again click the box next to the email and then click "mark as junk"
Many thanks for the Warning - But you should never listen to anyone like that over the phone especially Cold Callers.
I'm going to have to go and Google that now you've said it, there was a brilliant one the other day that was true. EDIT: Found it, it's the underwear bomber. Not only is he someone who hopes to be given a load of virgins for kiiling people, but he thinks the best way to get there is to blow his cock off. Anyway, the description of his dad was what made me laugh: Can you imagine being the FBI agent taking that to your senior officer? "Yeah boss, I've had an email from a Nigerian banker who's got connections to their government who says he needs our help..."
Cheers OLM we have this in France too, I know there's a couple other ex-pat Tigers on here and it's called the Liste Orange (and there's the Liste Rouge) http://www.agence.francetelecom.com/racine_boutique/residentiel/fp/230/fiche_produit.html free service* joined it just now myself too.. let's see if it works..
The only junk mail I seem to get has Michael Parkinson's face on it, telling me I can have peace of mind since I'm nearly dead. I'm 27.
In addition, the TPS only has any effect on companies that want to sell or market something, and anyone doing any kind of research is completely exempt from it and can and will still call you. Almost everyone who has it is unaware of this and will make themselves look silly moaning about it to a research company who aren't going to give a ****. Wasn't this was it? Active people survey I've worked on this, it's actually for a pretty decent cause.
Just in case you were wondering, I still haven't received my £1,050,000, or my inheritance from Banki Moon
I keep getting emails from girls who say they have had to go home to deal with the loss of a parent and they need someone to deal with the money, so they can get it out the country and after they will give me a percentage.... still waiting. Or the banks asking me to log in to my online account which I don't have!!!. I do occasionally get ones from Halifax that go into my Inbox rather than spam, I delete and log on by going to the website not via their emails
