Cell phone DoNotCall List

[undergroundpanther]

Might want to call this number y'all....
Cell Phone Do Not call list

JUST A REMINDER... 15 days from today, all cell
phone numbers are being released to telemarketing companies and you will start to receive sale calls. ..YOU WILL BE CHARGED FOR THESE
CALLS....To prevent this, call the following number from your cell phone:
888-382-1222 or register at donotcall.gov. If you call to register you must call from the actual phone to register.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.

please get this on the greatest page I think as many people as possible need to see this info...
Oh and did I say I HATE HATE HATE these pieces of shit corporate thugs and their telemarketing scams.

[Junkdrawer]

1. The clickable link is:

http://www.donotcall.gov

[Kadie]

2. This is an old email going around... here is snopes link...

Claim: Cell phone users must register their numbers with the national "Do Not Call" directory to prevent their cell phone numbers from being released to telemarketers.

Status: False.


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

[theoldman]

7. I regestered my cell and wired phone on the list.

So far no problems.

[aintitfunny]

3. Urban Legend - Per Snopes

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

[AirmensMom]

4. I registered all my phones.

I've been getting telemarketing calls on my cell phone for at least a year. I just don't answer them if I don't recognize the phone number. I'm hoping registering with donotcall.gov helps.

I hate them too. :grr:

[Ms. Toad]

18. Registering on the do not call list does help

You do have to follow up and actually file complaints, but the calls do eventually stop. It's been ages since we got a telemarketing call - but for several months one jerk kept calling. I just kept filing reports on him (cutting and pasting and inserting new dates made it easy). He eventually stopped - presumably when the reports caught up with him.

[Dinger]

5. K & R!

[Swamp Rat]

6. Urban Legend

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

[porphyrian]

8. Until then, simply avoid the Pavlovian response of answering every call.

First of all, I'm not reading you off if it sounds like I am. This is just one of my peaves, too.

Chances are, you will never win anything worthwhile by answering the phone, and anyone who is calling with anything important won't block their identity from you and/or not leave a message. There is no penalty for not answering. Really. Unless you have been assigned the duty of saving the world and the only way you'll receive your orders is by phone, nothing's going to happen. Except they might call back later.

I know I'm not like most people, but I never answer the phone when it rings unless I'm absolutely sure it's who I want to talk to. That means I pretty much never answer the phone. What gets me is how crazy that drives people. You'd think letting the rings go unanswered was giving them cancer or something.

Sorry to shanghai the thread, I just thought I'd throw that in there.

[undergroundpanther]

11. Pavlovian?

I don't answer my phone pavlovian style. In fact most calls I make are replies to messages. However I'd get peeved if telemarketers filled up my in-box with crap I'd have to sort throughout to reach my friends messages..Remember Spam,spammers didn't give a shit until the law forced them to.Corporations are conduct disordered,they have no sense of ethics or boundaries. They'll invade your space and all till sunday to get their fucking ads in,and they will do it until a law forces them to stop..they are pieces of shit. And I don't trust them and I want my phone for MY calls,not their bullshit.And if I don't answer I want it to be because I don't wanna talk. It's not gonna be me NOT answering MY calls because it might be an ad. Talk about pavlovian,not answering your own damn cell phone that YOU pay for because it's an ad is still a pavlovian response to telemarketers..They still control your responses. It is better to call and exempt yourself from these fucking assholes calls all together.

[porphyrian]

16. I agree and disagree.

It is a Pavlovian response to exhibit a programmed behavior at the sound of a bell, as with answering a phone. That doesn't really apply to me because not answering is not a programmed response. Believe me, I understand your anger and frustration about it, I just happen to expect less from phone companies than you do and I have a peave about people who can't stand NOT answering a ringing phone. I don't have a problem with people trying to get on a do not call list, I usually sign up myself. But, as with the error in thinking that building a wall will keep out immigrants, lists like this just make those determined to get through more creative and devious. And phone companies make just as much money, if not more, from telemarketers using their systems as average people. As long as that's true, you can count on them not really giving a shit.

[undergroundpanther]

9. Not an urban legend

I remember a few years ago there was a news report about a do not call registry for land line phones.I stayed up to get the number at 11 o'clock news report since I missed it on the 6 o'clock news. I called the do not call registry back than and there were NO telemarketer calls on our lines for years. When it expired we got telemarketer calls again. So I had to re register. This is a real deal folks.The email saying telemarketers may be charging us for the calls on our cell phones , might be bullshit.I don't know and I don't care because who wants harassing ad calls at all? I don't. Fuck 'em.

What have you got to lose except being a demographic to exploit for greedy assholes taking up your time and messing up your peace of mind? Telemarketing should be illegal IMHO And ads delivered to your home it's a shameful waste of trees.Companies need to be ruthlessly leashed(because a corporation have no ethics OR BOUNDARIES on it's own at all) and if they are not forced respect our mental and home space they won't. I'd be ruthless to protect human rights over corporate rights .If they violated the law I'd just stomp them out of existence. I don't care about corporations,they are not human beings,they are exploiters of human beings.Companies originally were supposed to serve society not exploit it. Companies IMPOV have no rights to invade my space with ads and marketing. It's a pity how tolerant of ad clutter and invasive marketing America is.

[DTinAZ]

13. Oh yes, it certainly is...

We're not saying that the entire DO NOT CALL program is an urban legend, but this particular "cell phone" warning is. Enter *all* your telephone numbers on the https://www.donotcall.gov/default.aspx website, but don't believe or circulate hoaxes.

DT

[Iowa]

10. Snopes says it is an urban legend, but I did it anyway...

It was a good reminder to update my land-line registration, and I did my parents and my daughters too while I was at it. And I added my cell too - it can't hurt.

Thanks to undergroundpanther for the reminder.

[Pugee]

12. I got a spam text message the other day. really weird.

[Raine]

14. I *think* I remember doing this

sometime last year.

[Old and In the Way]

15. Does it strike you as strange that this administration would be a

consumer advocate on this issue? Could that database have other uses for the Republican Party? I suspect that it's being put to other uses...

[Hippo_Tron]

19. He's a consumer advocate because people actually care about this

[WilliamPitt]

17. Hm

Every few months, I see a message like this: "Remember, you only have x days to get on the DNC list."

If memory serves, the deadline for this past...about six different times. I think this is a hoax.