Jumping the telephone on hold queue

[andy_vtec]

From here :www.thisismoney.co.uk/money-savers/article.html?in_article_id=405677&in_page_id=1

By keying in the following if you are on hold to various companies you can jump through and get answered quicker. Not tried it myself, but seems popular. Nice work.

TELEPHONE CHEAT CODES FOR MAJOR COMPANIES
Company Phone number

PRESS <0> <#> IN QUICK SUCCESSION
Alliance & Leicester 0870 9011001
American Express 01273 576576
Bank of Scotland 0845 7213141
Barclays 0845 7555555
BUPA 0845 6090111
Capital One 0800 9525150
Comet 0870 542 5425
Dell 0870 152 4699
DHL 0870 1100300
DVLA 0870 240009
Egg 0845 1233233
Goldfish 0141 2049005
Halifax 0845 7203040
HSBC 0845 7404404
Lloyds TSB 0800 0969779
NatWest 0870 3331993
NHS Direct 0845 4647
O2 0870 2410202
PC World 0870 2420444
Royal Mail 0845 7740740
Sainsbury's Bank 0845 3055888
Sky 0870 2404040
Tesco 0845 6040409
3Mobile [phone]

DON'T PRESS ANYTHING
Carphone Warehouse 0870 111 7400
Onetel 0800 957 0523
P&O 08705 212121
Southern Electric 0845 7444555
Southern Water 0845 2720845
Virgin Holidays 0870 220 2707

ENTER WRONG MOBILE No 3 TIMES
Orange 450 from Orange mobile

PRESS <*> <0> EACH TIME YOUHEAR AUTOMATEDVOICE
BT 0800 800 150

PRESS <0> THREE TIMES SLOWLY
T-Mobile [phone]

[Witchfinder]

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[Ace-T]

One company that I used to have contact with had such a bad phone system that by pressing a combination of keys when their 'Press 1 for this that and the other' came up you could get an outside line. Made calling ones relatives in Australia cheap! I believe this was known in the olden days as 'phone phreaking'?.

I was a good girl and did actually tell the boss of said company that you could do this but he didn't do anything about it!

Ace-T

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