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Just had a call from plusnet
01-06-2017 3:49 PM
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Think it was just a general call seeing if im happy.
0114 number, i told him my telephone number, address etc, then he wanted to know certain letters of my password.
At this point im like ,hold on, i should be asking you who you are !! you rang me, for all i know you could fishing.
I know it was genuine as they have sent me a message in the member centre , saying i failed the data protection
We called you today to discuss your account, but the person we spoke to either refused or failed the DPA (Data Protection Act) check. We have left your account unchanged.
I just felt he wanted to know too much information, what a weird way of doing things in this cyber world we live in, not happy.
Re: Just had a call from plusnet
01-06-2017 4:07 PM
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Hi there,
Sorry to hear you're not happy with our data protection process.
We have to protect our customers data on outbound calls as much as on inbound calls, because we need to verify the person we're speaking to is the account holder or an authorised user of the account.
For example, if we called your phone number, I appreciate it's a good chance you'll be the one to answer, but we're unable to guarantee or verify that from simply dialling a set of digits.
Sorry if it caused you any inconvenience or frustration.
Anoush.
Re: Just had a call from plusnet
01-06-2017 4:15 PM
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@Gandalf This has been questioned many times before, how can the customer that has been called have any certainty that they are genuinely being called by a PlusNet employee. The caller asking for account information is totally wrong. Data protection has to work for both parties.
Re: Just had a call from plusnet
01-06-2017 4:28 PM
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I said to the bloke on the phone, you could be from india for all i know putting on a very good yorkshire accent 🙂
He asked me my name, address, post code, then he wanted password letters, im like no no no.
Re: Just had a call from plusnet
01-06-2017 4:31 PM
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I've always said that - you have no idea who it is calling you and with the ability these days to disguise phone numbers it's even more difficult to trust the company is who they say they are.
Why can't the password system work both ways?
Re: Just had a call from plusnet
01-06-2017 4:42 PM
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I think that you are answering the wrong problem @Gandalf. The real question in this and at least one other thread is "Why are Plusnet cold calling customers without checking their contact preferences?"
In this age of bogus calls, making unrequested "Service" calls and then requiring the responder to pass "DPA security checks" is just plain stupid! Many, if not most Users have unchecked the preference to allow calls by phone but they still get called. This practice has the potential to escalate into something much bigger if sufficient people refer to the ICO.
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Re: Just had a call from plusnet
01-06-2017 5:14 PM
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@MauriceC Whilst I appreciate what you're suggesting that is not the question asked by the original poster in this thread and is already a topic of discussion in the thread you've linked to.
Re: Just had a call from plusnet
01-06-2017 6:30 PM
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I think you're splitting hairs @Chris
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Re: Just had a call from plusnet
01-06-2017 6:43 PM
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I don't think so, although I do agree it's a good point you've made, there is an ongoing thread discussing the point you've mentioned and that is not what the OP started this thread for. Discussing that in this thread would duplicate the ongoing conversation and take this thread off-track.
Re: Just had a call from plusnet
01-06-2017 6:49 PM - edited 01-06-2017 6:50 PM
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@Gandalf wrote:
Hi there,
Sorry to hear you're not happy with our data protection process.
We have to protect our customers data on outbound calls as much as on inbound calls, because we need to verify the person we're speaking to is the account holder or an authorised user of the account.
@Gandalf On the flip side the customer also needs to verify (whilst on the call) who is calling before giving out personal information.
At the moment PN want to verify they are speaking with the correct person, with out easily allowing the other person to verify it is PN calling, that seem to be the problem at the moment.
One idea, when you call the customer, before the customer gives any personal information you send them a text/email that contains a few characters of their username and a quick message like "Hi this is (name) calling from PN "
That way i think the customer is more likely to talk to PN and give details
Regards
Mike
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Re: Just had a call from plusnet
02-06-2017 8:37 AM
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Re: Just had a call from plusnet
03-06-2017 11:55 AM
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Balb0wa: "... they have sent me a message in the member centre , saying i failed the data protection".
I think that is an outrageous interpretation. You have not failed in any way at all. You have been wise enough not to give security details to someone who rang you out of the blue. If anyone has failed, it is Plusnet, who have failed to prove to you that they are who they say they are.
Boooo!
Re: Just had a call from plusnet
03-06-2017 12:41 PM
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@Petard - While I understand going through DPA checks off the back off an unexpected phone call can be a tricky situation, if a customer refuses to go through DPA checks for any reason, we couldn't put that down as passing DPA and continue to discuss the account.
Personally, I would have gone with something along the lines of "Customer refused to go through DPA checks" but it is not incorrect that a customer failed to go through DPA checks if they refused to pass these on the call.
Re: Just had a call from plusnet
03-06-2017 2:11 PM
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@HarryB - As far as I can see, there is nothing a caller can say that will prove who he is. Whatever he knows he could have learnt from a data breach. Enough such breaches have been reported - and those are just the ones we know about. Companies often keep them secret.
It follows that the only safe thing we can do is not tell callers sensitive data. If the call is important, then we should ring the company back on a published number to be sure whom we're speaking to. If the call is unimportant, then it should not be made, since, as this thread shows, it just causes problems.
Can you confirm that the calls being talked about in Plusnet's forums now are important, and are not 'sugging' - selling under the guise of research (etc.)?
Re: Just had a call from plusnet
03-06-2017 2:15 PM
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@HarryB wrote:
Personally, I would have gone with something along the lines of "Customer refused to go through DPA checks" but it is not incorrect that a customer failed to go through DPA checks if they refused to pass these on the call.
@HarryB As a representative of Plusnets opinion I think you may be treading on some very thin ice here. There is a world of difference between refusing to respond with account details and failing to pass DPA. Some future analysis of account details may well categorise these two responses differently and not to the advantage of the account holder?
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