Just a heads up for cell phone users:

maggiefan
maggiefan Posts: 223
edited July 2010 in The Clubhouse
Saw this on another forum, thought you guys would like to know.


REMEMBER: Cell Phone Numbers Go Public this month.
> REMINDER..... all cell phone numbers are being released to
> telemarketing companies and you will start to receive sales calls.
>
> .... YOU WILL BE CHARGED FOR THESE CALLS
>
> To prevent this, call the following number from your cell phone:
> 888-382-1222.
> It is the National DO NOT CALL list It will only take a minute of
> your time.. It blocks your number for five (5) years. You must call
> from the cell phone number you want to have blocked. You cannot call
> from a different phone number.
>
> HELP OTHERS BY PASSING THIS ON .. It takes about 20 seconds.
> https://www.donotcall.gov/default.aspx
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Larry
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited July 2010
    Wow

    Amazing how old this gem is.

    http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/cell411.asp
    If you will it, dude, it is no dream.
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  • agfrost
    agfrost Posts: 2,426
    edited July 2010
    bobman1235 wrote: »
    Amazing how old this gem is.

    http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/cell411.asp

    You're right, but I clicked with interest, as I just received the first unsolicited call on my cell in over a year this morning! (I may have won a Lincoln Navigator, all I have to do is call back!!!!)

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  • TNRabbit
    TNRabbit Posts: 2,168
    edited July 2010
    Why the heck do people mindlessly forward this stuff without checking it out?!?
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  • madmax
    madmax Posts: 12,434
    edited July 2010
    There is good reason to sign up on the "Do Not Call" registry whether or not cell phone numbers will be released. Years ago I was getting calls every 15 minutes on my home phone and every few hours on my cell phone. I put my numbers on the "do not call" list and after a few weeks the calls stopped completely, not any calls since. This had been going on for years. I had actually stopped answering any calls waiting to hear a known voice on the answering machine. I even turned off the ringer, the phone had become useless to me.
    https://www.donotcall.gov/register/reg.aspx
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  • thuffman03
    thuffman03 Posts: 1,325
    edited July 2010
    This has been going on for years. I really wish people would think for themselves and do a bit of fact checking before they open their mouth or send off that email.
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  • madmax
    madmax Posts: 12,434
    edited July 2010
    This statement is on the Do Not Call website:

    Cell Phones
    You may place your personal cell phone number on the National Do Not Call Registry. The registry has accepted cell phone numbers since it opened for registrations in June 2003. There is no deadline to register a home or cell phone number on the Registry.

    You may have received an email telling you that your cell phone is about to be assaulted by telemarketing calls as a result of a new cell phone number database; however, that is not the case. Federal Communications Commission regulations prohibit telemarketers from using automated dialers to call cell phone numbers.

    Even so, it got a lot of people off my home and cell phone. Remember, any time you give out your phone number, home or cell, you take the chance of getting on peoples lists.
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  • maggiefan
    maggiefan Posts: 223
    edited July 2010
    Sorry guys, didn't know this was old news. It won't happen again.
    Larry
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  • TouchOfEvil
    TouchOfEvil Posts: 967
    edited July 2010
    Whats a cellphone?
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  • bsturgeon89
    bsturgeon89 Posts: 128
    edited July 2010
    maggiefan wrote: »
    Sorry guys, didn't know this was old news. It won't happen again.

    Its ok,,,,,

    We kind of expect that kind of stuff from you people Up North....
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