*77

[Synthohol]

are you sick of anonymous calls on cell or home phone? (mostly verizon)
dial *77 to activate anon call rejection *87 to deactivate.
the buttplug that blocks his/her # will get a recording instructing the caller to deactivate their call ID block if they want their call to go through.

im tired of getting hang-ups on my home phone and *69 says "we're sorry, the last person that called your line is not known"

[WackyComputer]

That's a nice tip.

Right now we pay $5 a month for something called "Call Intercept" and the phone sounds like a fire alarm every time unknowns call. It's the dumbest feature they ever talked my Mom into.

[sadako1]

Sorry Aaron, I just read that post and laughed out loud. In fact, I'm still laughing out loud! I suppose it's one way of letting you know that it's an unknown number... or you could have caller ID. My parent-in-law have a service where I have to dial my phone number in (I think it's something to do with the caller ID. As my number's on an international exchange, the information isn't sent so I have to put it in manually).

Over here there's a service called the "Telephone Preference Service" that actively takes your number out of the hands of telemarketing companies (not sure how it works). There's also a service that the post office runs that's supposed to do the same for your mail - like an email server's spam filter, only worse.... We still get spam, but very rarely get telephone cold-calls. In fact, I'm not even so sure that cold-calling's allowed here (one of the other UK Ninjas might be able to fill us in).

[DAVE185]

Is there any charge?

[illmatik]

I got my home phone on the do not call list and theres a similar one for junk mail (I estimate I was getting 15-20lbs a month of it) before I got myself on it.
I still get stuff from places I purchase items from (even ebay ones now dammit although these mails are pretty cool and worth checking out for some of the hard to find items I've bought) now and then, but the credit card offers and crap have been GREATLY reduced.

There's a number of steps you need to do, but its worth every keystroke.

https://www.dmaconsumers.org/cgi/offmailing

That site will help you a good bit and many links will link you to other lists.

optoutprescreen seems so fraudy looking but if you google it you'll see it was started by the major credit reporting agencies. Whats so f'd up is they say FIRM offers of credit or insurance.. What a joke.. I applied for a card which guaranteed me 15k of credit and when I got the card it was $600 limit!!! How FIRM is that?