Getting banks to admit charges are automated

[jonni2bad]

I think it's a great idea - we're only looking for a few people to slip up, and it's perhaps no more than the price of a stamp and envelope....

 

(which, according to those very banks, works out at around £39)

 

Surely worth a shot........

[jonni2bad]

There have been extensive posts on this subject, and it is DEFINATELY ok to record calls, without making it clear you are doing so, and this can be used later - it's not just for personal clarification!

 

There is a small point, and a very unlikely scenario, whereby you cannot do this if the conversation can be accessed by another party, but this has no meaning to, or impact on, general phone users.

 

So, in short, record away and don't tell them!

[jonni2bad]

Yes, that's pretty much what I'm saying.

 

BF has even had a sound-file interview of a expert in privacy laws confirming it.

 

* Recording is not unlawful.

 

* There is nothing to stop you recording a call as long as you do not tamper with equipmemt which is not yours i.e. BT telephone lines.

 

* There is no need to give warnings that the call is being recorded.

 

* There is no confidentiality in the call unless you have agreed with the other person in advance or there are other circumstances which make it clear that the conversation is subject to a duty of confidenatiality.

 

* If you overhear someone else's call which is clearly of a confidential nature in circumstances which are clearly intended to be confidential then there is confidence in the recording.

 

* You do not need to inform the other party unless there has been an interception in the course of transmission and you don't have a warrant. This, as I mentioned above, is not relative for joe bloggs at home recording a call from a bank.

 

* You can make a recording and you can share it with everyone without permission - if the circumstances are such that the contents of the conversation are not confidential.

 

The worst case scenario for using this info would be that you would have to refer to it, having perhaps copied the script to a 'hard copy' alternative (i.e. a notepad). This is, for instance, the way that police use recoded conversations as evidence in court.

 

John