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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.
Penn
This is one of those yes-true and no-false rumors, started in 2004..
Email: Cell Phone Numbers Going Public
Netlore Archive: Message urges adding mobile numbers to Do Not Call List
By David Emery , About.com Guide
See More About: cell phone urban legends do not call registry
Forwarded email warns that a directory of cell phone numbers will soon be published and urges users to dial 888-382-1222 to list their numbers with the federal Do Not Call Registry to prevent telemarketing calls.
Description: Email rumor
Circulating since: Sep. 2004
Status: Mostly false
http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/business/a/cell_directory.htm
Analysis: This rumor has been circulating continuously since September 2004. Despite a small grain of truth at its core, it's mostly false, misleading, and outdated.
Here's what you need to know:
Yes, you can add your cell phone number(s) to the National Do Not Call Registry.
No, you won't suddenly be at the mercy of 10,000 telemarketers if you don't.
Contrary to what's claimed in these emails, cell phone numbers aren't about to "go public."
It's true that a few years back several of the major wireless providers announced a plan to establish a universal cell phone directory, but the plan did not consist of simply publishing everyone's cell phone numbers for the world to see, nor were the numbers to be "released to telemarketers" as claimed above. The directory was to be made available only via telephone, only to those who dialed directory assistance and paid a fee, and only with individual wireless customers' consent.
The point has been moot since 2006 anyway, when the wireless directory plan was permanently shelved. I'm not aware of any similar proposals currently in the works.
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.
BUNK!
REMEMBER: Cell Phone Numbers Go Public this month.
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.
There's need to call that number, because.....You can REGISTER any phone number(s) (land line or cell) on the National Do Not Call list ONLINE
https://www.donotcall.gov/register/reg.aspx
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 http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2008/04/dncfyi.shtm.
You know I sat on this for a few weeks before posting. I even used the number provided which for an urban legend must be fairly sophisticated, because the number is answered, stating you have reached the no call center, followed by two questions that are answered by pressing 1.
Urban legends rarely, if ever maintain a call center; marketers perhaps do.
I'll update this thread should I be inundated with calls.
In the meantime I hope your are mistaken, but thanks for the heads up.
AngelsSix
06-05-2011, 19:58
http://www.bbb.org/us/article/your-cell-number-is-not-going-public-21014
Have you gotten an email forwarded to you by one of your friends lately saying that one day very soon the list of all cell phone numbers is going to go public and you will be spammed by unwanted sales calls? Actually, it’s not going to happen.
There are some rumors that just will not die, and this is one of them. Since at least 2004 there’s been an email making the rounds that says that all cell phone numbers are about to go public and be released to telemarketers. According to the email, you will be spammed by sales calls (and they will go on your cell phone bill) unless you call a special number at the national Do Not Call (DNC) Registry to get your cell phone number blocked for the next 5 years.
So, what’s the real deal? Well, there is a national DNC Registry, and there’s no harm in registering your cell phone number on it, but there is NO national release of cell phone numbers scheduled or planned. According to the Web site snopes.com, this rumor started several years ago when some of the major wireless companies planned to create a 411 national directory. In the end, the directory never happened – but the rumor that it’s out there and telemarketers will soon have access to it just won’t go away.
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has a special Web page http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2007/02/dnccellphones.shtm about this story-that-will-not-die. On it they say that:
Cell phone numbers are NOT being released to telemarketers, and you will NOT soon be getting telemarketing calls on your cell phone.
There is NO deadline to register your cell phone number with the DNC Registry.
Telemarketers are not allowed to use automated dialers to call cell phone numbers. Since that’s what most of them use, they wouldn’t be calling your cell phone number even if they had it.
There is only one DNC Registry. There is no separate one for cell phones. The DNC Registry registers both cell phones and land lines. You must call from the phone number that you want to register. If you register online, you must respond to a confirmation e-mail.
And, by the way, in 2007 the FTC got rid of the 5-year expiration date on DNC registries. So once your number’s registered, you won’t have to renew it.
To put your phone number in the DNC Registry, go to www.donotcall.gov or call toll-free, 1-888-382-1222. But there’s no need to panic if you don’t get around to it today.
I have not gotten any spam or telemarketer calls on my cell phone. I do not have it registered.
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