Tag: ppi

April 29, 2016

BT Engineer Charges Cold Caller

Richard Herman was plagued by calls from a PPI cold calling company. He asked them to stop calling him but the calls continued. So, next call he warned them that if they called again he would bill them for his time at £10 per minute.

The Nuisance Calls continued and he kept a log and recordings of all Nuisance Calls about PPI received. He informed them that would base his bill for the use of his telephone electricity and time dealing with their calls.

He submitted a bill top the company (PPI Claim line Limited) for £195 which was 19.5 minutes of his time answering and dealing with the unwanted calls.

Even when the company denied making the PPI Nuisance Calls to him it didn’t deter him. He took them to court, but the case didn’t continue.

They settled out of court for £220 and paid him.

Hooray for Richard Herman.

Make them pay for wasting your time.

April 23, 2016

Update on Time-Wasters

So, what rubbish emails and calls have there been to Brooklands Radio station in the last few days?

Still getting calls from the same stupid PPI chasers. Pathetic. Unfortunately they use a computer to dial and play their message so they can keep on dialling the entire population repeatedly.

A Chinese company HungFung International want us to sell their nit removal combs. But it’s all fake – the supposed email address etc. are all just links to websites they get paid for promoting.

A supposed message from someone on LinkedIn. It’s fake. They copied the format of a real LinkedIn message request just to get us to click on some website that no doubt contains a scam.

Funding Circle offering us a business loan. We’re a volunteer organisation. No loans thank you.

An email proclaiming that Kids Stay Free at the Moon Palace Hotel in Cancun. May be a copy of a real advert for the hotel but sent from a spammer to get us to click on websites they want us to visit.

These people just waste our time and clog up the Internet with rubbish.

March 30, 2016

PPI Cold Calls

According to figures from Citizens Advice, 30 million people, or two thirds of British adults, have already received messages about PPI – and 98 per cent did not give permission to be contacted.

Richard Lloyd, executive director of Which?, said: ” People can use our free online claims tool to get in touch with their bank if they think they have a PPI claim.” Do not deal with the PPI claims companies that keep cold calling.

A couple of years ago there was a huge number of PPI calls – many homes were being called several times a day, every day.

That’s reduced a lot so nowadays but there are still some companies calling though not many.

The remaining companies often use computers to call you and relay a message asking you to press 1 to speak to someone. Unfortunately if you don’t press 1 then the computer will phone again and again – maybe in a day’s time, maybe in a week’s time. If you have the time and patience then you can press 1 speak to someone and demand they stop phoning you. Maybe that works with some of the cold calling companies.

We shouldn’t be plagued by these companies. The sooner PPI is finished the better.