CELL PHONE SOLICITATION.

Thank you, sir. Don

Thanks 4th. Heck, that was easy.

snopes.com: Cell Phone Numbers Given to Telemarketers

Yes, I hate it when you guys just repost sh** you get in your email w/o verifying it first. This one appears to have been floating around misleading folks for over 3 years.

1) Cell phone numbers are not being made public. They change too quickly (do you guys have any idea how many prepaid cell phones there are out there?)

2) The Do Not Call list is forever (or until the number is released back into the available pool [see prepaid cell phone comment above])

DNC Registry said:

Your registration will not expire. Telephone numbers placed on the National Do Not Call Registry will remain on it permanently due to the Do-Not-Call Improvement Act of 2007, which became law in February 2008. Read more about it at Fees Telemarketers Pay to Access Registry Set.

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3) You can also sign up online at Do Not Call Registry.

sniper69 said:

snopes.com: Cell Phone Numbers Given to Telemarketers

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Yeah I was going to say I fell for it the first time around

Shit! oh.well. I called in my cell phone anyway. I do get some solitations on it now. Now I can really get vulgar with them. P.S. The telemarketer's computers generate the numbers to be called. They don't come out of a phone book. If your cell phone number is generated, it gets called.

partsman said:

I do get some solitations on it now. Now I can really get vulgar with them.

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No, now you can make money off of them.

If they violate the DNCL, you get paid per infraction.

You guys really need to look into how this can work for you.

Thanks Tim.I got the # to call in my last phone bill,but they failed to mention that my cell # was going public.

Really, I could be making a fortune off all the frickin 402 area code number that call every week.

railbuggy said:

Thanks Tim.I got the # to call in my last phone bill,but they failed to mention that my cell # was going public.

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That's because it's not.

Your darn tootin Rails...

railbuggy said:

Thanks Tim.I got the # to call in my last phone bill,but they failed to mention that my cell # was going public.

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I am startin to get solicitation calls on my cell.
Oh yeah. Oh yeah. I want to buy your product. Oh yes I do.. Hoh..
"Yes Sir. where exactly are you."
"I will drive there and rip your eyeballs out."
"I studied Karate for over two weeks." :scared:
"Do you know you are burnin my airtime."
"Do you know when I am on this computer I can literally smash Bruce Lees face in."
"Go ahead. Call me again. Tough guy. Oh yeah."
"Huh I bet I get no more calls after that one." Oh you betcha. :woot:

nalioth said:

If they violate the DNCL, you get paid per infraction.

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Never in a million years. Telemarketers *define* "fly by night"; by the time anyone could get any action going, they'd be long gone.

International fiber is dirt cheap, too. I've heard many call centers are in the Caribbean, but we get calls from India or Pakistan. Fat lot of good "the law" is going to do about that.

hey i got a call from pakistan --some Taliban is trying to sell me long discount distance!- if i buy now a get a free pin up calender!

A guy at my work printed that out last year and hung it up at work, the three guys that used it started getting calls a couple days later.

If I don't recognize the number I don't answer it, if it's important they will leave a message.

Coils said:

A guy at my work printed that out last year and hung it up at work, the three guys that used it started getting calls a couple days later.

If I don't recognize the number I don't answer it, if it's important they will leave a message.

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As the pictogram suggests, the above is a joke - the number in the OP is the actual "Do Not Call Registry" signup number.


(there's enough bullsh** in this thread already)

Nalioth FUCK YOU (no I'm not yelling), I don't know everything like you do, but I'm not a liar.

The Do Not Call list does not work any better than any other govt-run program.
I have registered my home phone a couple of times- with both the Feds and the State.

We still get 3 - 4 calls a day.... sometimes more.

Coils said:

Nalioth FUCK YOU (no I'm not yelling), I don't know everything like you do, but I'm not a liar.

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I never said you were.

I was addressing the folks who don't recognize the pictograms as "picturesque adjectives" and who might take your statement as "true" (yes there are folks who have not a clue about "smilies" and how they modify sentences on discussion boards).

Please read it again.