Cell Phones & Telemarketers

Beginning next week, your cell phone number will be available to telemarketers. Following are the places where you can register to get your number blocked:

http://www.donotcall.gov (National Do Not Call site)

888-382-1222 (call must be made from the cell phone you want blocked)

Thanks woman!

I just did via the link and it was very easy!!!!

Nicole

Yeah, easy for me, too. Last thing I need is Telemarketers using up my minutes... not to mention annoying the poop outa me!

great info and thanks!

Your cell number won't me made available to telemarketers unless you give permission.

I sure hope so! Calling me on my cell phone to solicit would not only be an invasion of my privacy but also an invasion of my pocketbook.

Dangerous too depending on where you are when you answer it!

Here's more info on this:

http://www.detnews.com/2004/technology/0408/04/etech-228881.htm

http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_cell_phone_directory.htm

Thanks Darius. My cell phone is my only phone now, and I have not had one single telemarketing phone call on it. I'm so happy to be able to get registered on the No Call list. Thanks so much!

It would really irk me to get sales and other unsolicited calls eating up my minutes. Thanks for the info, Darius and Cheryl. At least most wireless carriers display caller ID on customers' phones so some discretion can be used. Still, many telemarketers come up as "no caller ID" on our land line and probably will on cellphones, too.

I have my old house phone set up on "Remote Call Forward" (for a monthly fee of course) to my cell phone. They wouldn't let me keep the number when I moved 4 miles down the road.

My new home phone is used for DSL, my fax and outgoing local calls. Incoming calls get the annoying fax tone.

I ramble on......my point is, my cell phone has caller ID on it. I never answer those "number not available" calls nor any calls I don't recognize the number for. If it's important they will leave a message and I will return the call.

In addition, my cell phone has this neat little quirk to it. I have the ringer set to Mozart and when a number not available call comes in, the phone does the regular ring instead of the melody. Saves me having to climb down off that ladder and run for the phone.

Anyway, again, Thanks for the tip Darius.

Afterthought: I have noticed some of the telemarketing companies are displaying 800 numbers now to trick you into answering. Also, many of the Fireman and Policeman associations leave their numbers visible. Although I do my share of giving, even the charitable groups sell their lists. You have to stop somewhere.

Molly

Exactly! The assignable ring tones are a really handy thing!

I'm not sure my phone has that feature... but then the booklet has such a tiny type size I cannot read it.

Darius,

I didn't read it either, Lord who has time to read the manuals on every gadget we depend on in our lives. I just found out when I happened to question the ring tone. But it is really a cool idea.

Molly

Shucks, I'd have read it if I could! I'd like to know how to program it!

What model phone do you have? I know T-Mobile has Flash tutorials on their website, showing how to use features of various phones. Maybe your carrier does, too, or you could just look at T-Mobile's site?

It's a new Motorola V60s phone, GSP.

You can go to http://commerce.motorola.com/consumer/QWhtml/manual.html and look at the manual for the V60i (GSM) - that should be the same. At least you can enlarge the text that way. I don't think T-Mobile has the tutorials available unless you're a customer. Your own wireless carrier might have info on their site, though.

Kimberley,

You are amaazzzing!!!!

Molly

Thanks, GW... and cheaper than a magnifying glass, LOL.

They've already been calling some cell phones - with the automatic number dialing many of those companies have. Enough to drive people crazy.

My DH has been getting CONSTANT phone calls (not a solictor, I don't think) for someone named Audra. The phone call is coming from Maryland. Unfortunately, it is an automated message that asks you to call a certain number and then use a certain reference number. It says it so fast we never can find a pen in time to write it all down, thus the phone calls keep repeating, over and over and over and over again.

DH has had this cell number for over 3 years. Not sure why this suddenly started happening but it is starting to agitate him.

Sometimes in cases like that, it's the result of a typo in a company's database.

Aaargh, last night I got a call from a telemarketer and the man said, "Hello, is Lisa there?". When I said he'd gotten a wrong number, he said, "Oh, then may I speak to the lady of the house?". Sheesh.

We keep getting calls from a number that comes up as "Dove Foundation", too. Last time I answered, I told the caller I wanted to be added to their Do Not Call list and that I've received numerous calls since asking. I said I have the company's name and number on my caller ID. The man sounded alarmed and promised to take care of it. Right.

Karrie, cant you block that number?
One of the good things about living in turkey is that they havent been clued in on the phone solicitor mania. It is truly very nice, I remember we would get anywhere from 5 to 15 calls a nite, in the middle of dinner usually, and very irritating. Now we get none. none at all....it's great!

I get a deal from the company I retired from, cell phone service for about $10 a month, and I use it generally for a quick outgoing call. Only my family has the number , and it's turned off most of the time, so they can call me until the cows come home and nobody will pick up, and I don't activate the voice mail feature so they are out of luck. If I get a call, it will give me a message that a call has come in and show the number but I don't get charged for that.

Favorite things to do to telemarketers: Pretend I'm deaf and ask them to talk louder, put the phone down and walk away, until it does that beeping thing. Tell them I have something to sell them if they have a minute to listen, then describe something very very bizarre or boring in great detail. Tell them the party they are calling is deceased. Speak in broken English and tell them I'm the maid and the householders are on an extended tour out of the country. We don't get many calls...this seems to have removed us from quite a few lists.

lol meez...that is funny

Need help!!
Link doesn't work for me.
How do I cut & paste?

Copy this but take out the spaces after the /// and before gov

http:// www.donotcall. gov

darius,I don't know if it's my computer or me,I can't get the hyperlink that you so kindly gave me-it reads the page can not be displayed.

whoops, left out a part... try this, still leaving out the same spaces
https:// www.donotcall. gov

http://www.donotcall.gov/

If that doesn't work, go up to your browser's address spot (where it says www.davesgarden.com) and just type in donotcall.gov and hit enter.

I don't know what is wrong-nothing is working for me,but thank all of you trying to help me.

Colie, then use the phone number in the first post, but FROM your cell phone.

Thanks darius,I will do that.