The guy registered a paid number and earns on advertisers

In Russia and surrounding countries, this has not yet become so common, but in the West everyone has long been accustomed to strangers calling you almost every day for a personal phone and offering different goods and services. This extremely annoying practice is called “cold calls” in business (cold calls), which means a total call of all subscribers in a row, without prior agreement.

British geek Lee Bomo (Lee Beaumont) is also extremely tired of these stupid calls: he works at home, and calls are constantly distracted from work or rest. Without thinking twice, Bomo found a way to turn a source of constant irritation into a source of steady income. In November 2011, he registered a personal phone number in zone 0871, and since then he has been paid for each incoming call.

Registration of a paid number cost 10 pounds plus VAT. Each call to number 0871 costs 10 pence per minute, of which Bomo receives 7 pence . This is not much, but since the registration of the number, the resourceful geek from Leeds has already earned £ 300, or about 15,500 rubles. at the current rate.


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In a telephone interview for the BBC Radio Wales radio station, an entrepreneur says that at first he received 20-30 calls a month to a paid number, but last month this number dropped to 13. What is interesting, now these calls are not so annoying. He is happy and very verbose answers to all questions of marketers on the phone, even himself sometimes asks questions - and delays the conversation.

This practice cannot be considered fraud or unethical, because zone 0871 is known to everyone as paid. All marketing companies understand that they will pay for the call, so when they dial Li Bomo’s number, they consciously accept an open offer and invest money in the possibility of receiving a client.

The personal toll-free number Lee Bomo uses only for next of kin and friends, and acquaintances can always contact him for free on Skype. He never indicates his personal number when registering on the Internet or on other public pages. With a paid number, on the contrary, the Briton is actively registered in various marketing programs.