"While people registered with the TPS report a decrease in nuisance calls after signing up, they received on average 10 unsolicited calls in the last month," the group said. Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Lee Beaumont told BBC Radio 4's You and Yours programme about his 0871 number 
 
 He added he was "very honest" and the companies did ask why he had a such a number. Calls remain the most common form of contact about PPI claims, followed by automated landline messages and text messages to mobiles. A survey for charity Citizens Advice found that two-thirds of those asked had received unwanted calls, texts, emails or letters about PPI mis-selling.
– Lee Beaumont was sick of telemarketers calling him, so he came up with a brilliant solution: He made them pay him for the privilege. The Leeds man signed up for an 0871-number (the British equivalent of a 900-number), and began giving that out to banks, utility companies, and other commercial concerns, he tells the BBC. Now, whenever anyone calls him, it costs them 10 pence a minute. He has a non-pay number, but he only gives it out to friends and family. When companies ask why he has a pay line, Beaumont says he's "very honest," telling them it's "because I'm getting annoyed with PPI phone calls when I'm trying to watch Coronation Street." The line has so far earned Beaumont around $465, while reducing the number of calls he receives a month from 20-30 to about 13. Schemes like Beaumont's make sense in the UK, because its version of the do-not-call list is a tad ineffective. A study this year found that people on it get twice as many calls as people who aren't.