{"id":6283,"date":"2008-03-18T17:13:02","date_gmt":"2008-03-18T17:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grayblog.co.uk\/2008\/03\/making-a-nuisance\/"},"modified":"2008-03-18T17:13:02","modified_gmt":"2008-03-18T17:13:02","slug":"making-a-nuisance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/2008\/03\/18\/making-a-nuisance\/","title":{"rendered":"Making a nuisance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been having problems with nuisance calls on my business line. They call, it rings, I pick up&#8230; *click*&#8230;. they hang up.<\/p>\n<p>Ho hum. 1471. Telephone number: 0800 389 6818.<\/p>\n<p>A quick Google search reveals that gazillions of people are having the same problem. This is a marketing company and they use a computer to dial zillions of numbers, including mine. It hangs up. You 1471<a title=\"Gordon makes up words\" href=\"http:\/\/www.onemanblogs.co.uk\/index.php\/archives\/2008\/03\/18\/the-art-of-complaining\" target=\"_blank\">erise<\/a>\u00a0the number and call back. They try to sell you something (mobile telephony, broadband, double glazing, whatever) &#8211; earning money as they go from their 0800 number (yes, they earn money from that).<\/p>\n<p>But, the good news is that you can stop it. Well, in theory you can. There is a free service called <a title=\"Silent Call Guard\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ukdatait.co.uk\/cgi-bin\/sgAddNumber.cgi\" target=\"_blank\">SilentCallGard<\/a>. You dial a number (0870 444 3969 &#8211; or go online), punch in your number and it subscribes you for two years (although the website says 12 months). It blocks all automated calls from these evil phone spammers, although be warned that it only blocks calls from companies that are signed up to its register and membership of the register is not obligatory.<\/p>\n<p>So, we shall see if it works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been having problems with nuisance calls on my business line. They call, it rings, I pick up&#8230; *click*&#8230;. they hang up. Ho hum. 1471. Telephone number: 0800 389 6818. A quick Google search reveals that gazillions of people are having the same problem. This is a marketing company and they use a computer to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}