Business ISP Andrews & Arnold ( AAISP ) has become so frustrated by unsolicited calls using auto-diallers and playing recorded marketing messages to their office phone lines, which is illegal because they have been registered under the Telephone Preference Service (TPS), that they have decided to get their own back by trapping any such calls with a recorded message.

Last week AAISP's Director, Adrian Kennard, reported that over the course of just 7 hours they had received more than 330 call attempts to numbers in their office DDI block alone from junk callers; approaching 1 call attempt per minute. Now just in case nobody knows the rule on this..


Since last week AAISP has introduced a new system that redirects calls from withheld numbers to a "honey pot", which plays back a recorded message and has already resulted in some comical conversations (two samples can be found here). The message itself is designed to coax the unsolicited caller into staying on the line, while also educating them about the law, and thus tying them up for as long as possible.


Kennard notes that he has since sent the first hour's recording to the governments Information Commissioners Office (ICO) but has yet to receive a reply. We highly recommend listening to the sample recordings, which make for a good giggle :cheese:.