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Del Lardo
22-06-2009, 10:18
Remove your number from Directory Enquiries here (http://www.118800.co.uk/removeme/remove.html)
Feek
22-06-2009, 10:22
Is that genuine? I saw it last week and wondered if it was harvesting numbers.
Burble
22-06-2009, 10:23
They don't make it easy - the captcha thing on their website is pretty much buggered. I tries last week to get my work mobile removed and despite being 100% sure I'd entered the right characters it told me 5 times that I'd got it wrong. Then it took 2 hours to get a text from them with a code and a further 6 attempts at the captcha to enter the code.

Then I found the easier way to remove my number was to text E (for exclude) to 118800.
Burble
22-06-2009, 10:24
Is that genuine? I saw it last week and wondered if it was harvesting numbers.

Apparently it is. I saw our Vodafone account manager on Thursday and he says that Vodafone are treating is as genuine.
Feek
22-06-2009, 10:36
I've just emailed my account manager asking if he can get all our numbers taken off, I can't be dealing with over 600 entries there!
Nutcase
22-06-2009, 18:23
It didn't work the other day because they had been on the radio so the site was innundated with requests to be taken off ;D

Both mine have been made ex-directory.
Wryel
22-06-2009, 18:46
I bet debt collection agencies are loving this, removed mine straight away.
Feek
22-06-2009, 19:27
The reply from my Vodafone account manager. I feel happier.

Regarding the new mobile phone directory, Vodafone customers can rest assured that we don't provide customers' telephone numbers or contact details to any directory service provider except where the customer has specifically and proactively requested that their details are included in such services. We're not involved in the set up or operation of Connectivity's 118 800 service. However, phone number information may have been supplied to the service from other third party sources.
Joe 90
22-06-2009, 19:30
whoo. thanks. removed \o/

*although i did a search first and i don't think i was in it anyway.
Burble
22-06-2009, 19:30
Just because Vodafone haven't supplied the numbers doesn't mean 118800 don't have them. My work mobile number is allegedly available on there (it tells me it thinks they have it but I've not given them £1 to find out) and as far as I'm aware my number hasn't been shoved online or anything like that.
Feek
22-06-2009, 19:35
Yes, I realised that when I re-read it from the last sentence. I'm going to mass email all my mobile phone users asking them to send the required text *sigh*
LeperousDust
22-06-2009, 20:08
I don't know yet if i actually want to be removed, i can see the benefit of being on the database as long as its not abused, which i can't really see how it will be...