Cell phones & telemarketers: Is this true??? by BrownCoat1

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Cell phones & telemarketers: Is this true???

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UPDATED: Sunday, June 18, 2006 04:48
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Friday, June 16, 2006 6:51 AM

May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one.

My wife received an email from a friend that I have cut & pasted below. It sounds like b.s. to me. Anyone heard anything about this?

Quote:
REMINDER....12 days from today, all cell phone numbers are being
released to telemarketing companies and you will start to receive sale
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 wish to have blocked.
You cannot call from a different phone number.

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"May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one."

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Friday, June 16, 2006 6:58 AM

LOSTMARAUDER

Completely false...

http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/cell411.asp

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Friday, June 16, 2006 7:00 AM

FUTUREMRSFILLION

The Buzz
Cell phone number release is a hoax
Compiled from Times wires
Published January 23, 2006

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Heard the one about your cell phone number being released to telemarketers?

Don't worry, it's a hoax. A widely circulated e-mail claims that cell phone numbers soon will be made available to telemarketing companies. If you don't add your number to the national do-not-call registry, goes the claim, your cell phone could be targeted - and you'll be stuck paying for the call. The e-mail is so prevalent that the hoax is at the top of the "25 Hottest Urban Legends" list compiled by snopes.com. It could be more of a misunderstanding than a hoax. The confusion, snopes.com says, is rooted in a proposal by cell phone companies to create a directory of cell phone numbers that would be made available to directory assistance providers. But the directory is only an idea, and under the proposal, cell phone owners would have to volunteer to be included. And there would be no printed list that telemarketers could access

I am on The List. We are The Forsaken and we aim to burn!
"We don't fear the reaper"

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Friday, June 16, 2006 7:01 AM

PHOENIXROSE

You think you know--what's to come, what you are. You haven't even begun.

I put my cellphone number on the Do Not Call List awhile ago... just to be safe. You can add it online; shouldn't have to call anyone.

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Friday, June 16, 2006 7:04 AM

CHRISISALL

I am happily cell phone-free.

Chrisisall

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Sunday, June 18, 2006 4:48 AM

NAFLM

Reminds me of an email that I received some years back when still in university. Someone made a parody of all the "apocalyptic virus" and other doom-and-gloom emails that were going around at the time. The parody described the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide ("breathing it can kill you!") and how it is found almost everywhere in society.

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