Bogus TPS Calls

Bogus TPS Calls

The Telephone Preference Service is completely free to consumers.

TPS will not call a subscriber of the service to ask for personal details or payment to complete a registration.

If you have registered via the web and have received an e-mail confirmation and clicked on the attached link, that's it! Your number will be registered for FREE with TPS.

They will not contact you again in relation to your registration (unless you have number(s) registered with the Corporate TPS, where they will contact you annually by email to renew your subscription - this is still a free service).

If you do receive a call from someone claiming to be from the TPS

or a similar sounding organisation, asking for personal information or charging you for this service, their advice is to not pay or give them any personal details, it is most likely a scam.

We are aware of a number of organisations that call from overseas, possibly India claiming to be TPS or affiliated with TPS or BT. They ask for your credit card details to complete a registration to stop unwanted calls. They often claim that you previously gave your permission for this call. This is a scam. Never give out your credit card details over the phone.

The names of some of these organisations, given to us by consumers are:

Alien Touch
SAIS Corp Ltd
Icon Global Services
IG Services
ITC
Biztek (or Bisdek) Telecomms
Consumer Advice Bureau

-  TPS advice is NOT to pay them.

We are currently having people called in our area so I have contacted the TPS in London and have been given the above information. Go to the website www.tpsonline.org.uk for more information and advice in the case of receiving a call