Does anyone know if this is legit?!

 

"Subject: cell phone DO NOT CALL list

 

 

Hi Everyone,

 

Please see below. You should do this for your company cell phone and your personal cell phone in order to save your minutes and cost.

 

 

Starting Jan 1, 2005, all cell phone numbers will be made public to

telemarketing firms. So this means as of Jan 1, your cell phone may start

ringing off the hook with telemarketers, but unlike your home phone, most of

you pay for your incoming calls. These telemarketers will eat up your free

minutes and end up costing you money in the long run.

 

According to the National Do Not Call List, you have until Dec. 15th 2004 to

get on the national "Do not call list" for cell phones. They said that you

need to call 1-888-382-1222 from the cell phone that you wish to have put on

the "do not call list" to be put on the list. They also said you can do it

online at www.donotcall.gov

 

Registering only takes a minute, is in effect for 5 years and will possibly

save you money (definitely frustration)! Make sure you register now!

 

If you have any questions, please let me know.

 

Thanks,

Susan

I signed up for the residental do not call list and I gotten fewer telemarketing calls since then.

i always get calls from people who knew the girl who had my phone last. they dont speak english and always scream out desperately "ANNIE?!". its more annoying than telemarketers.

Whenever a telemarketer calls the dorm(and freakin credit card companies call it all the time its annoying as hell) we will just use ebaum soundboard of a random person like judge judy or arnold

Whenever a telemarketer calls the dorm(and freakin credit card companies call it all the time its annoying as hell) we will just use ebaum soundboard of a random person like judge judy or arnold

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:lol I flush the toilet on them.

I have MetroPCS so they can't eat up my minutes.

The link is legit. I signed up.

The email is a hoax.

 

Or, at least, the part about the telemarketers is.

 

From Snopes.com:

 

Claim: ? A directory of cell phone numbers will soon be published.

Status: ? Multiple:

 

* A consortium of wireless providers is planning to create a 411 (directory assistance) service for cell phone numbers: ? True.

 

* You must register your cell phone before 1 Janunary 2005 to prevent your number from being provided to telemarketers: ? False.

 

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* The Wireless 411 service would be strictly "opt-in" ? that is, wireless customers will be included in the directory only if they specifically request to be added. The phone numbers of wireless customers who do nothing will not be included, those who choose to be listed can have their numbers removed from the directory if they change their minds, and there is no charge for requesting to be included or choosing not to be included.

 

...

 

It is 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).