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When you registered with TPS did you read what they do and do not cover?  Had you done so, you would have seen that they DO NOT cover Market Research calls.  Being ex-directory only means your telephone number does not appear in a telephone directory.  Have you opted out of that part of the Electoral Roll which can be sold on?  Have you ticked the "opt out" box when buying things on the internet?  If you want to stop calls from legitimate Market Research companies, of which GKN/NOP is one, then it is easy.  Go to their website and use the "Contact Us" facility.  Ask them to remove your details from their data bases.  Job Done.

I have asked about this business of phone numbers and Electoral Registers before without success.      According to the Electoral Commission no one should be asked to provide their phone number at the point of registration.     So which Local Authorities take the opportunity to collect unauthorised information by the method, please?

but 192.com (amongst others) syphons data from multiple sources, eg Electoral Register, BTs Directory Enquiries, etc then sells lists to anyone that is prepared to pay.

I see someone ese has replied to your post.  I would just add that, although, of course, you do not give your telephone number on the Electoral Roll, your name and address are enough for the people making cold calls to find your telephone number.  It is just one more opportunity to get our information.

Market research they obviously totally ignore TPS and ex-directory numbers ,got them beat now caller display . Best money ever spent.

got a call from this number, I just said hello and they hung up then I blocked the number

Just had a call to my phone from this. To my mobile. How the hell have they got THIS number? I never give it out, certainly not to any company that might "pass it on" to other completely reputable callers...

Got a call from Indian sounding male claiming he was from microsoft and wanted to give me money back for not being able to fix my computer said money was £160 and I told him I had never paid this money, he wanted me to go to my computer and fill in form. Conversation ended

Just had a call Sunday morning saying calling for a survey for qvc had my name and tel no.i am so annoyed this is my 5 th call.i have asked repeatedly to remove me from dailing list and rang qvc.i am a customer of qvc and very annoyed my info has been passed on

I used to work for this company 2007-2012 mostly students working there. It is a genuine market research company in a large office. Sometimes the company we were calling on behalf of would forbid us from telling the person we called any details until after the survey making it frustratingly difficult for people to trust us. For some surveys the company we're calling for gave us the number & sometimes its random digit dialling by the computer. You should never be asked anything confidential. And if you are uncomfortable with any of the questions DECLINE that particular question and ask them to move onto the next question, it should be fine. If any member of staff did anything unethical they used to get sacked on the spot or thoroughly investigated immediately.

Ambulance chasers for an accident that did not happen should be ...........

My call was from Barclay's doing a survey

Just had a missed call from this no. there it's a London based number and I'm in Ireland so I'l not be answering it again unless they fancy giving me lots of money for doing nothing at all.

"Doing research on behalf of M&S bank" the caller said. All I can say is they call regularly whilst allegedly undertaking research for a whole host of companies. I must have had 5 calls or more in as many weeks.

Got one last night he was very polite market research from the co-operative bank did answers some questions. But not any thing important. How stupid was I going to my bank on Monday.?

Missed call. Read all this. Alarmed they have my number as it's a mobile. Damn them to hell

Gave his name as Jim orielly calling on behalf my bank to carry out a survey . He had my name! Told him I didn't want to talk to him or receive these calls and hung up

I was also called by them, but as one of my friends used to work in market research, I checked the GFK website and it is one of their genuine numbers.
See http://www.gfk.com/fileadmin/user_upload/coun ... anuary_2018.pdf.
At some stage we all must have ticked some box or left some box unticked, which means our bank or other service provider can ask GFK to call us for market research.
It must very frustrating for the people working for GFK to be treated like someone from those very irritating cold callers.

They called me.  Sounded very nervous and said they were from Santander!!   Couldn't even pronounce my name right.  Beware

GSK, market research company ringing on behalf of Santander bank.