Received a email from a friend today.... Read through the thread I guess Cell phones
will not be called. Just read other peoples post. Make your own opinion.

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REMEMBER: Cell Phone Numbers Go Public next 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 TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS... It takes about 20 seconds.

 

FYI: This is a hoax.

 

Oh, comeon Dean, it's on the internet, so it has to be true!
Right Rob?

 

Yep...only been around since 2004. See Snopes.

 

Yet still, I have received unsolicited sales calls on my cell phone. Rare, though.

 

http://www.ftc.gov/donotcall

 

Per the FTC (cited from the donotcall web site):

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.

 

Apparently so. I been sent this particular gem about once a month for at least four years now.

 

it will still work for the home numbers


more info
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2008/04/dncfyi.shtm

 

Thanks for the info.