Mobile sets the alarm bells ringing
Things are busy, busy, busy at the office today so when my mobile phone started ringing with a call from an 0800 number just now, the alarm bells rang too.
It clearly wasn't a friend or acquaintance and with number starting 0800 I suspected it may be a company ringing me at work to sell me something. There's never a good time for such things but while you're at work it can be particularly annoying.
But what if it was something important? The only way to know is to answer the call isn't it? Wrong! There is another way.
I decided to consult that modern day oracle Google by typing the number into the search box. What I got back was rather useful website called WhoCallsMe?
There I was able to find out (by way of comments from other web users) that the number belongs to Orange and they are selling home broadband, something I already have and am perfectly happy with, incidentally.
But I thought I'd share the site with you so that you too can avoid annoying sales calls. Good luck! Now it's back to work for me.... more soon.
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Steve Bax
Web Editor for the Surrey Herald
We get those a lot also... from sky, BT, Orange and various other companies.
We use the same web service to screen the calls and then log them into the phones memory as EVIL.... we answer them only if we have time and want to play a game of LEAD THEM ON right up to the point of sale and then change our minds or fake a knock at the door and run off saying it's a taxi for us. Keeps us amused.
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