Cell phone list or Scam ?

[Lunacie]

Just got this in email? Anyone know if this is legitimate or a scam? Would I actually be signing up for a cell-phone-no-call-list or would I be sharing my cell phone number for anyone on the internet to begin calling it?

Directory of cell phone numbers

A directory of cell phone numbers will soon be published
for all consumers to have access to. This will open the doors
for solicitors to call you on your cell phones, using up the
precious minutes that we pay lots of money for.

The Federal Trade Commission has set up a "do not call"
list. It is called a cell phone registry. To be included on the
"do not call" list, you must call from the number you wish
to register. The number is 1-888-382-1222 or you can go
to their website at <www.donotcall.gov (http://www.donotcall.gov/)>.

[Hellenic_Witch]

Just got this in email? Anyone know if this is legitimate or a scam? Would I actually be signing up for a cell-phone-no-call-list or would I be sharing my cell phone number for anyone on the internet to begin calling it?

Directory of cell phone numbers

A directory of cell phone numbers will soon be published
for all consumers to have access to. This will open the doors
for solicitors to call you on your cell phones, using up the
precious minutes that we pay lots of money for.

The Federal Trade Commission has set up a "do not call"
list. It is called a cell phone registry. To be included on the
"do not call" list, you must call from the number you wish
to register. The number is 1-888-382-1222 or you can go
to their website at <www.donotcall.gov (http://www.donotcall.gov/)>.
Hmmmmm. I think it's a scam.

[halfwaynowhere]

well, we signed up for the no call list with our home phones, i think now they are opening it up to cell phones. the website is the same one we used to sign up, it looks legit to me.

[Phoenix Blue]

Everything here is on the money. The San Fransisco Chronicle printed an article (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/05/21/BUG4S6PLN71.DTL&type=business) May 21 about this:


Washington -- Mobile phones, once immune to telemarketers and e-mail spammers, could become as vulnerable as home phone lines and computer inboxes when a wireless subscriber directory is published later this year.

Critics fear that the directory being developed by the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association will undermine privacy and flood cell phones with unwanted calls and messages.

[Antoninus]

I think its easier to just deal with solicitors.

[Lunacie]

Thank you so much. I have really enjoyed the last two years of not having a land line and being telemarket-call free. I'd hate to have to spend money on getting calls I don't want to get. Gonna go sign up right now.

[Sequoia]

Well, I suppose all you have to do is the same thing as before - the do-not-call list.

By the way, something you guys might not know: I did a temp job at one point for a telephone research company- solicitors, salespeople, etc cannot call you if you are on the list, but if it is a telephone survey, then they are allowed to sell your phone numbers. I got a couple people who became incredibly pissed off that I called, because they were on the "do not call" list. I felt a bit helpless, because there wasn't exactly anything I could do about it.

People who hang up rudely on survey-collectors (considering true telemarketers are pretty uncommon now) don't seem to realize that most of these people don't want to be doing this... it's a job, to support themselves and their families. :( The companies actually require you call in the evening hours because that's when most people are home. I usually apologized if they didn't want to participate in the survey.

[Silver_FireStar]

Scam or not it doesn't matter. Soliciters calling you won't use your precious money up, and if they do publish a list of numbers you will be notified by whatever company you have bought the phone with and you will be able to go on the no call list then before the thing is published with ease of mind that you are not giving your number out

[Lunacie]

I don't have as much faith in the cell phone companies letting the customers know about this.

[Phoenix Blue]

Soliciters calling you won't use your precious money up...
Baloney. Incoming calls use minutes, same as outgoing calls do.