Stop cold calls in France

[Fred]

After the death of pacitel where you could opt out of cold calling Opt out of cold calling by phone there is a new service starting on June 01 2016.

Bloctel will be mandatory and abusers risk a fine of €75,000 so this will be better than the old Pacitel which was a voluntary system.

Starting from 01 June 2016 just go to the website below and enter your number of your landline and mobile if you no longer want cold calls, it will however take a month for your number to be removed as companies are obligated to check once per month.

https://bloctel.gouv.fr/

*Note the site isn't live yet so come back and click it on 01 June 2016.

[Admiral]

Thanks Fred.

I'll take a squint at the site come June 1.

We went Liste Rouge with France Telecom about five years ago which did stop 99 per cent of cold calls.  But....some automated nonsense rubbish still gets through.  Easy to deal with though - a bit of ripe Anglo-Saxon seems to do the trick.

On the down side it also cost an extra €2 per two months.

[Fred]

Thanks Fred.

I'll take a squint at the site come June 1.

We went Liste Rouge with France Telecom about five years ago which did stop 99 per cent of cold calls.  But....some automated nonsense rubbish still gets through.  Easy to deal with though - a bit of ripe Anglo-Saxon seems to do the trick.

On the down side it also cost an extra €2 per two months.

Once this is running it should stop all that.

You pay €2 for Liste Rouge? we get it free.

We never answer our phone, just let the answerphone get it. If they want you that bad they will speak then you can pick up.

[Fred]

They are getting a huge amount of people using the https://bloctel.gouv.fr/ site, but I've got mine done.

If it helps here is what to do. *Click images to enlarge.

Click the button marked with the red arrow.


And this one.


Scroll down to the bottom.


Now you need to fill in the questions. *Put your phone numbers in for contact and remember to add them again at the bottom you can add more by clicking "Ajouter à numéro de téléphone"


Now sit back and wait for an email.

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Votre demande d’inscription sur le site Bloctel, liste de protection contre le démarchage téléphonique, a bien été prise en compte.

ATTENTION : pour finaliser votre inscription, vous devez impérativement confirmer la réception de ce courriel en cliquant ici

Click ici

You are now registered and they will send you another Email to confirm. *It may take a while so be patient.