monsbrit (Jan 29 2011, 12:12 PM) said: > original post
I live in Wallonia and am being plagued by cold callers. What makes it worse is that they always hang up when I'm in the middle of explaining I'm not interested and before I get the chance to tell them to stop calling. Which is incredibly rude! Is there a register in Belgium where I can get my number taken off these cold calling lists?
Yes you can actually, and from my experience , it's quite effective
There are 2 main things you can do right away,
First, get on http://www.robinson.be/ , and there you can ask to be removed from marketing lists.
(Of course site FR/NL only, no EN)
Secondly, get on http://www.phoneinfo.be/en/index.html which will allow you to remove your phone / address / e-mail from all public directories (such as white/yellow pages)
From my perspective, it works quite well as I never received any cold call from anyone.
Don't expect this to be fast, it will take some time (months) for your change request to be propagated to all companies so you might still receive calls after doing that
And of course, there are some companies who do not actually care about those and might still call you
In addition, if you don't like "paper spam" in your mailbox and live in Wallonia, there is an official sticker you have to put on your mailbox to refuse "free press" and/or "ads" (you can select)
It's the only one that is enforced by the regional government , get to http://stoppub.wallonie.be/ (only in french)
Also depending on your cell phone provider, you can block all those "spam" texts you may receive
Example (FR/NL only): http://www.mobistar.be/fr/offre/info/controle-du-budget
Finally , as a last ressort, you can always file in a complaint (in English) to the
I tried , they do respond , they do follow up complaints (slowly but they do) and in the end , they will get you "unsubscribed" from pretty much anything "in Belgium"
