This
is quite interesting and may be a new technique
for getting round the PECR.
The
cold call started by thanking me for "your enquiry
on our website."
I had
never previously been to their website. However
the caller told me that there was an
aerial picture of my house there with illustrations of solar panels.
The
caller had my name, address and telephone number,
allegedly from the website. BUT I have
never entered it.
I
mentioned this and they suggested it was a hoax. While
this is perfectly possible, it is not
probable.
My
suspicion is that someone enters the data as if they
were me, doing it under the instructions of either the company or of
one of its
calling agents, and that they do this in order to circumvent the TPS
In
terms of true marketing this is pointless because it
turns a warm sales lead into a cold call, but idiots abound in life.
Anyone else had anything like this? I'm alerting the UKIC, and I suggest you do, too, if you get such a call.
Tim Trent - Consultant
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