cellphones for telemarketing

[bookwormom]

REMINDER...12 days from today, 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 TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS.
It take about 20 seconds.

[nancy1340]

You can also do this by going to www.donotcall.gov and register on line.

[DaNgEr_KiTtY]

thanks for the tip bookwormom! been working way too much lately & havent had time to catch up on the background news.

i have always despised telemarketers. i got tired of a land line years ago & ditched it for these reasons along with others that wasted my time. my cell phone served all of my needs. i dont advertise my business or have it in the phone book. this has been a brilliant idea so far.

after cell phone companies have to weigh the profit they make by selling you number to the amount of money they spend dealing with complaints from customers we may get a break. i hope they offer private numbers soon but that will take some time i am sure.

i bet some of you are scratchin your head wondering how i have a business with no advertisement or number in the book & as some of you know live in a small town. its been simple actually. be the best at what you do for miles around & those that want your services will find you. its kinda like a filter to jobs that dont interest me.

for some reason this reminds me of campaign finance reform mccain/feingold. i was wondering how the politicians would find a way to skirt around those laws just as i was wondering what would happen to all the telemarketers. i guess that they will always find a different way to do business in the end & some laws are a pathetic waste of time.

[grandmajoy]

You might want to check this out

http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2007/02/dnccellphones.shtm

joy

[CarolAnn]

Oopsie, that's an email I also got, but it's not true.

They can NOT call you on your cell phone. The website even says that.

Best check EVERYTHING on www.Snopes.com that you get in an email warning. I don't know why people start those, but they do.

[bookwormom]

Oh you mean that is not true Carol Ann? actually that is nice.
Of course it would not have affected me anyway, since I don't have a cell phone, I just tried to do you guys a kindness.

[CarolAnn]

I realized that you were trying to do a kindness right away . . . and I've gotten caught by those emails that way too.

My sister always forgets to check Snopes and always forwards them, and always gets chewed out by her well-meaning, (but rude) son who copies everyone she forwarded it to so that they also know she forgot to check Snopes again.

In case you've never used Snopes, it's a great website where they check out this kind of email to see if it's really true or not. In my opinion, it's a wicked and tricky person who writes these in the first place, relying on kindness of people (like you and my sister) who want just to help others and end up passing along their lies.

[Deberosa]

What happens if you call the number and give your information? Is this a way to steal your cell phone number.

I don't have a cell phone either but didn't try it. If it actually called a real number that asked for any information from you or maybe just took your caller id, it may be an identity theft scam.

Did anyone call the number? What happened?

[CarolAnn]

No, you actually CAN put your cell phone on the "do not call" list. The part that's a lie is the part that says telemarketers will soon be able to call you, and that you'll have to pay for the call.

That's what's so weird about the whole thing. There's no need to put your cell phone on that list. They don't need to "collect" your cell phone number because the phone companies have almost all given those lists to the government anyway - so it's not a plot by the government to collect numbers.

Some people evidently just like to get folks into a tizzy and write these kind of emails. I suspect some of them harbor a virus and spread it under cover of the false message, but not all do. Some are just "non-facts" that are sent out to no purpose at all that I can tell. Maybe there's a contest to see who can get their fabrication passed on to the most people? :P

[Deberosa]

Go figure. But what you have to watch out for now a days is that organized crime is running these rackets to collect large numbers of identiities. They sell these to the druggies who in turn buy their drugs with the money they steal!

I heard a lecture by an expert who is researching this. That's why the fake e-bay, bank and other emails that say you need to click on the link to verify your account.

This scam sounds like it's simply some ego trip to see how many times the e-mail returns to them...

[nancy1340]

The only think I know is that a couple of months ago I saw something about this on the news.

Now as far as Snoops, please remember they are not always right. The information put there is gathered by people that also can be mistaken. Not long ago they had something on there that supposedly had been debunked. It turned out it was true. Sorry, I don't remember just what it was.

It's better to be safe than sorry.

[333]

Peace,

I beg forgiveness , but this IS just a perfect example of how an oppressive society get folks all riled up and then registered and tagged, voluntarily. I gave up the cell phone a while back despite all the business and emergency practicality, simply because its is a voluntary dog collar.

Now its seems that this "no call" registry is what it is, a way to scare everyone into voluntary compliance under national registry, in other words count the beans, monitor the beans, then collect the beans.

There is absolutely no logic to allowing telemarketers to call you unwarranted and then of course you get charged for a call you never wanted to make or receive in the first place. It is outright thievery to allow, and blatant fraud to scare folks into compliance. Just my 2 cents.

333

[Deberosa]

The only emergency you would really need a cellphone is in a very very remote location because everyone else has one to dial 911 on!

Out of curiosity the other day in my tiny town I was stopped at the stop light and decided to count the cars that went through the intersection with the drivers talking on cell phones.

Out of 8 or so cars at least 4 were on their phone as they went through the intersection!!!

What could be that important??? Who's left who watches out where they are going?

We have much more than the government to worry about when protecting our personal information. The bad guys want it too and they are far more efficient at getting it than the government will ever be!

A little off topic, but at my work (at least the one I am at for now) has a big push for "wellness". Part of that is a "free health survey" that they are holding contests to see which area has the highest rate of participation. People are headed on over to the web site and typing in all kinds of personal health and habit information. I told my team to do it at their own risk, their boss sure wasn't going to join the bandwagon! Upon further inquiry I am told that the employer doesn't have the data - it goes directly to the insurance provider. Gee- a free way to gather data to justify more rate increases!!! When I pointed this out people were amazed - they had not even thought about what was being done with the detailed info they so willingly provided in the name of "wellness"!

This thread is a great example to remind us all to be very careful to how we disclose any kind of information. It's the weapon of the future in my opinion.