For those of you paying a cell phone bill; As of Tuesday, September 11, 2012, thanks to the cell companies, the telemarketers and their fucking lobbyists, all cell phone numbers will be made public. To prevent your cell from being slammed with charges for stupid robo calls, call 1-888-382-1222 and place your number on the national Do-Not-Call list.

FU##ING A$$HOLES!

....and I f$$$#ing pay by the minute...bastards. I don't even set up my messages because I don't want to pay to retrieve messages from misdialed private calls!!!! let alone, unwelcomed calls made from telemarketters/poll researchers that are being made on purpose!!!!

OMG!

thanks Danno. Calling now. I will pass the info on.

.....you must call from the phone you wish to have included on the do not call list.

....so fast, it will only cost you one minute though!

I think this maybe a hoax with a grain of truth

http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/business/a/cell_directory.htm

click on the link and it should explain

Link fixed: Urban Legends

Lol, every year this gets people all worked up. Do a little research before you just randomly dial some 800 or 888 number folks. You very easily could have just given your number to a marketing firm just by dialing the number! Don't be naive guys.

I have received several robo-calls from places I have never been lately and when I do a reverse phone lookup, the numbers come up invalid. One comes from someone looking for someone who may have had my number before me. Even if it is illegal, there's no way to trace the origin of the calls, so their illegality is moot. I figure the one call to the No-Call list is cheaper than two of these idiots trying to call me since cell phone time is cell phone time and it all costs money. Feel free to not call if you wish. It's your money.

Umm...where do you think they got your number??

I think the computer runs through a series of numbers for a given area code and exchange one at a time until it gets a ringtone and then the message kicks on automatically with the answer. Most never leave a voice message and when they do, it's animated just like when you pick up. The one I get most frequently goes, "This is an important call for so-and-so such-and-such. If you are not this person, you can ignore this call. If you are this person, please stay on the line for this important message from whatever-the-sales-pitch-is." For listed land-lines, they've got your name already. For unlisted ones, it's just a matter of having the database that reveals the person's name. If they get you to pick up, and you stay on the line long enough, a human comes on, but I've never let it get that far.

There is a company that recently moved into some local offices and all they are is a boiler room full of phone lines. They somehow access new car sales databases and when an owner's warranty is about to expire, they call and attempt to sell you an extended warranty. The BBB has given them an "F" rating, so they move around from state-to-state to keep from getting shut down. With all the empty retail and office space, landlords and communities welcome them, but they are more or less a giant scam perpetrated on an unsuspecting public. Their warranties are crap and the complaints go mostly unresolved. This is only one of many types of telemarketing scam.

or you can go here and register 3 numbers. Legitimate, I've been using it for years.
donotcall.gov

I'm not sure about the US, but in Canada they had a "Do Not Call List" and everyone that put their number on that list received a lot more calls as it turned out the list outside of Canada was on the honor system and ended up being a convenient list for non-Canadian telemarketers to get phone numbers.

The part about numbers going public may be a "scam" or a "hoax" but we haven't had a junk call since we signed up all our cells and land lines around here, so it's definitely worth the 20 seconds it takes to sign up.

You can solve that problem easy. Don't answer if it isn't in your contacts.

My cellphone has the Privacy Star ap on it. I can block callers, and I can report calls. They file reports with FCC and DoNotCall.gov both, and once that happens, that number never calls again.

You have to be on the National Do-Not-Call List for 31 days before the FCC will accept a complaint, so the sooner, the better.

and it works.
We were getting phishing bully's/scams on "You owe such and such amount of monies to so and so".
Really? I ain't in arrears to nobody on nothin'.They had my name and addy but that was it and constantly demanded further personal information,of course,I used it as an excuse to verbally abuse the asshats.
This crap went on for weeks until the DNC deal kicked in.I couldn't believe the stones on these people.
I feel bad for the elders and just plain stupid that fall prey to these tactics.

The only places allowed to call, even if you're on the donotcall list, church, government, places you've done business with in the past. So unfortunately, I've been getting polling calls several times a week for the last few months. 3 times just today.

My mom got a call from her great nephew Ben's friend Ryan, saying Ben was in jail and he needed $3000 to bail him out. She called Ben on his cell, and he's not in jail, and Ryan was on the couch next to him. Pretty advanced scam.

My mom got a call from her great nephew Ben's friend Ryan, saying Ben was in jail and he needed $3000 to bail him out. She called Ben on his cell, and he's not in jail, and Ryan was on the couch next to him. Pretty advanced scam.

You'll be surprised to learn how many people still fall for that one.

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