Phone # To Stop Tele-Marketers From Calling Your Cell Phone

[Me.]

Starting today phone #'s are being released. Not only that but you will be charged for these calls. The national do not call number is: 1-888-382-1222. The call must be made from your cell phone.

[peace frog]

1. Thanks for the tip!

Much appreciated.

[INdemo]

2. Yes but I included my cell phone #

on the list I submitted in January...so is this sufficient? I'm thinking yes.......(I'm referring to the no call list submitted to our State Attroney General's office)

[porphyrian]

3. ** A Note on the Do Not Call List **

Keep in mind, this ONLY applies to telephone SOLICITATION. Being on this list does NOT protect you from any kind of telephone polling or surveying. As long as politicians use telephone polling as an election tool, this will never change.

Also, paying your phone company to not list your phone number in the book does not mean people cannot call you. There are only so many area codes and prefixes available, and phone numbers can be randomly generated quite easily, and are for many sampling lists.

[alarimer]

14. I am on the list but still get solicitation calls

What's up with that? I never answer my phone. If somebody wants to get a hold of me they leave a message or call my cell. Still I hate the telemarketing calls. I suppose I should answer, if only to tell them I am on the list.

[porphyrian]

15. There are a few possibilities.

One, they may be solicitors that, for whatever reason, don't realize you are on the list. If this is the case, you can answer and tell them you're on the list, which should make them stop. If not, you have legal recourse, assuming they are indeed soliciting.

Two, they may be pollsters or doing a survey, which is not covered by the list unless they are trying to sell you something. In this case, the best way to get rid of them is to either never answer or answer and be as firmly and clearly refusing to participate as possible. Hang up as soon as you're sure they've understood what you said, don't let them keep you on the phone - that can be interpreted as a "soft refusal" which they will often try to convert in subsequent calls. Extreme rudeness and/or profanity can also work, but you risk the wrath of the low-paid "phone slut" who now has your phone number. This is similar to not pissing off the people that prepare your food in restaurants.

Three, you may have unwittingly signed something or filled out some form which, in the small print, gives them the right to call you even though you are on the list. Phone companies often do this - signing up to receive their services also gives them the right to contact you about "products and services" they want to sell you. You can probably get them to stop by putting up with the hassle of staying on the phone with them one time long enough to get them to change whatever it takes to make them stop. You may even be able to change this "setting" on a website, if they have one.

[EFerrari]

16. If you go to your state attorney general's website, there is

probably information there on how to file a complaint for violations of the DNC list. I filed one yesterday.

[dipsydoodle]

4. In the UK

that's already illegal and has been so for some.

[hobbit709]

5. There's only 6 people that have

my cell number. if caller ID isn't one of them, I just don't answer.

[madrchsod]

6. i`ll have to call us celluar

and see if they are releasing numbers. last i heard the ceo said over his dead body would the numbers ever be released. i never answer my phone unless i know the number..

[edhopper]

7. This is false

according to Snopes.com;
http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/cell411.asp

[Me.]

9. Don't Know If It Is False Or Not

as per the site you linked but I didn't get it from an email, got it from a union newsletter.

[JohnnyRingo]

11. Should have been "True, but not as represented"

A national directory will be compiled, but numbers will be included on an opt-in basis. If a cell phone subscriber does nothing, the number will not be listed. When the directory is ready, it will be available only as part of the existing 411 directory service, accessed by calling in and asking for a specific number. It will not be published in a book or on the Internet. And it will not be sold to telemarketers.

Cell phone subscribers can list their numbers on the do-not-call registry if they choose, but there is no deadline to get on the list, as the e-mail messages now circulating suggest

<snip>
So, although the gist of some warnings are correct in alerting consumers to a proposed directory of cell phone numbers, they are misleading in stating that such a directory will "soon be published" (the word "published" implies making a printed directory available, which the wireless consortium maintains they will not do) and in directing readers to sign up with the The National Do Not Call Registry. The latter step will not keep wireless customer listings out of the proposed Wireless 411 database — it will only add their phone numbers to a list of numbers off-limits to most telemarketers, a step which is premature (because the Wireless 411 directory has not yet been implemented) and largely unnecessary (because the Wireless 411 directory information is not supposed to be supplied to telemarketers, and because FCC regulations already in place block the bulk of telemarketing calls to cell phones).

<snip>
Updates: Verizon Wireless and U.S. Cellular Corp. have always declined to participate in the proposed cell phone directory, and initial partners Sprint Corp. and Alltel Corp. have since pulled away from the project due to concerns about bad publicity and possible new government regulations. So, as of January 2005, even if the cell phone directory database were compiled as planned, at least 45% of U.S. cell phone numbers wouldn't be included.

I guess it's a valid number for a "do not call" list....but no one will see it unless they get a call from a telemarketer asking if someone's on the list.
It comes down to whether you trust this company not to sell your number eventually (I think, It's pretty confusing)

[Me.]

12. Good Info

Thanks

[Blue Diadem]

8. you can do it online too

http://www.ftc.gov/donotcall/

I haven't heard about the cell phone #'s being released, the webpage says they are prohibited but its last update was 9/05

here is a snip from the website:


Cell Phones
You may place your personal cell phone number on the National Do Not Call Registry. The registry has accepted cell phone numbers since it opened for registrations in June 2003. There is no deadline to register a home or cell phone number on the Registry.

You may have received an email telling you that your cell phone is about to be assaulted by telemarketing calls as a result of a new cell phone number database; however, that is not the case. Federal Communications Commission regulations prohibit telemarketers from using automated dialers to call cell phone numbers.

[salin]

10. thanks.

I wouldn't imagine telemarketing would be effective per cells for the reason that you state... per the response:

Er - I am paying for this call? H*ll no I won't buy your product!

[Booster]

13. Thanks for this info. I'm starting to get calls on my landline phone

from mostly mortgage companies. They're really sneaky tho because they don't leave a company name or a phone number. You have to answer, punch in #1 on your phone to find out info. I did that and got a young girl and when I got the name of the company, I told her I was going to report the call and she said "you go right ahead". When I went to report the number the first thing they wanted was the company's phone number which I never got. Anybody else had this problem, and what do you do about it?

[MiniMe]

17. I have caller ID

And I don't answer phone calls from "unavaiable" or 1-800 numbers. I also don't call back messages that don't leave company names. Thats at home. On my cell phone, unless I know the number, I don't answer unless it is a local call.