02068884362

Got a call asking for previous owner who left here over 2 year's ago. When I said I wasn;t him she asked if I was the homeowner. Said was National Research Centre. When I asked which Nation she got confused. Was from Manila. Anyway, just said I wasnt interested and she went away quickly enough.

What is the point of these messages?
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Nothing will ever get done about these calls, there are hundreds of them, all over the net.
many of them only have a difference of one digit!
They are NOT international calls, so don't be fooled with that one.

Until the law is changed to prevent them from cold calling,
or prevent companies from selling your Details,
absolutely nothing can be done to stop them.

So... As I asked at the start of this message,
What is the point of these messages?   Answer =  NONE!

Just had some woman on this number responding to my (deep voice) "Hello" with "Hello, madam, am I speaking to Mr ..." Put it on speakerphone, kept quiet and left it until she hung up (took about 12 'hello?'s... <G>

had i call from this company asking to speak to my wife who had completed a survey in the last six months. as my wife passed away 7 years ago i asked to speak to someone else surprise surprise they hung up. something has to be done to legistate against these pests

Had a call from a withheld number at 8:30pm today. The caller had a broad Indian accent and asked for "the gentleman of the house".

He introduced himself as "Nick" and proceeded to explain that he was calling from the National Research Centre & wondered if I could spare a minute of my time to answer a lifestyle survey.

I replied by simply asking "where did you get my contact details from?" - he hung up immediately.

I think I get a lot of missed calls from the same people as, whenever I check my answerphone, there's always 1 or 2 messages with about 5 seconds of background hiss, and the number is always withheld.

It'd be interesting to see if anyone manages to make these calls stop. However, the existence of this site where we can compare similar experiences is at least a small comfort :-)

Next time I might humour them and give a comedy made up name, like Mike Hunt or Drew Peacock - oh the joy that would bring me if the rang back asking for either of those names :-D

Just had a call from National Research Centre asking for lady of the house.  Started to ask for postcode, so I told him we were ex directory & to remove us from his list at which point he hung up.  Pretty annoyed where they got our number from as most careful not to hand it out and rarely receive cold calls.

Just called again.  Out of area number.  Politely asked to be removed from database.  Fingers crossed.

Call from 'National Research Centre' asking for my mother by name.  On hearing that she died 7 years ago, no apology, just that I would do instead!  I was very, very rude to the caller!

I have been telephone every evening since Friday 19th November from the 'National Research Centre' they are careful to block their number.

It is a cold call number as they ask for someone who has never lived in my flat, or had my phone number - I never give out mine.  It cannot be genuine market research.

In spite of the fact that I started off politely and told them to remove my number I still get the calls.

just had a call from this number.
sounded like an asian lady.
wanted me to answer 10 questions and very persistant.

gave a blast of my high frequency panic alalm and i then hung up.

perhaps that might just persuade them to not call me again..

I guess just another of those early evening time-wasters - got to my phone too late so I didn't answer - fortunately I now realise from looking here afterwards - thanks for a useful site! ;o)

Had a call today from this number from a guy named Henry, said he was from the National research Council. He was asking for a guy who presumably had my number before me. I asked him why he was calling me and he replied that I had completed a survey within the last six months. I have had this number for over 12 months and have never completed any surveys. Asked the guy to delete my number from their database, which promised to do. We shall see.

I have reported these people before to the TPS, they are in my opinion a complete waste of time.

Had several calls from this number.  When have Indian mothers started calling their son Logan!!!!

I have had my current phone number for 6 years but I can tell you the name and address of the previous people who had this phone number as we get a lot of people calling for them still! They obviously changed their number as they were avoiding creditors and good old Virgin gave us their number. Usually I tell people that they have the wrong number and that's enough. I'm registered with the TPS so I don't get very many cold calls - not as much as I used to.

Over the last few days we have had several calls from this company asking for the previous people. I tell them they have the wrong number. They either just hang up or ask if they could talk to me. If I tell them I am registered with TPS they hang up, if I start to explain I don't want them to phone they hang up. I'm extremely fed up with these people and their constant calls.  Today so far (its only 3pm) I have had 14 calls from them. Nobody can help me stop them. I feel very angry and very let down that I am having to endure this.

got a call from this number very often and i want to know who this is from.Thank you so much

Just got a silent call from this number 2 minutes ago, I said hello more than once and just silence on the other end. This is ridiculous, i am tps registered and work shifts, my mother is ill and i am afraid not to answer the phone in case something has happened, it is unacceptable that with the concerns i have with my mum and the  inconvenience of answering the phone just off night shift, that these people shouldnt even have my number, never mind the fact that they didnt even speak when i answered. Who are these people.

I got one of those tonight from the 02068884362 number, claiming to be about 'lifestyle' and not sales. She would not say who was sponsoring the 'research' (my first question - I am a researcher and train people doing proper research) or where this 'National Research Centre' was. Finally let her know she was wasting time and hung up. The first questions were about sky, home ownership status (which I declined to answer), home insurance date (declined and I ended the call, quite politely). I've had calls from them before, but some time ago.

A woman keeps calling and asking for someone who doesn't live here, once I state that this is an x directory number and ask why she is calling, she hangs up....then she phones again a couple of weeks later asking for the same person

got a  call tonight  from a 0206 number from an asian sounding lady, in broken english, saying she was from some national research centre so i thought it was a british number and claimed to be doing a survey and i was only answering 5 questions, and was very persistent, i was very skeptical and kept asking me my age and if i had sky and what my address was, but it was an old address from abt 10 years ago, (i never corrected her) so its an old database they are using definitely, so sounds like scam and they are selling on our answers to some spam companies

Same story as everyone else - lifestyle company survey blah blah blah. As they were asking for my wife using her previous married name of more than 2 years ago - I informed them that under the data protection act they have a duty to keep an up-to-date record of who they are calling - she said she loved me then hung up. Obviously they are using information that is greater than 2 years old. We have also moved address but kept the old number. I wouldn't be suprised if they are using an old telephone book. Hope they call again - I need a little more to trace them.