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DO YOU HAVE A CELL PHONE? YOU NEED TO READ THIS!

By
Real Estate Agent with EQUITY UTAH- SOLID

MOST OF US HAVE CELL PHONES! THIS WAS SHARED WITH ME TODAY, HOPE IT WILL BE OF SOME USE TO ALL OF YOU!

Reminder: Cell Phone Numbers Go Public today. All cell phone numbers are being released to telemarketing companies tomorrow 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 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 or you can go to www.donotcall.gov

I FEEL THESE PHONE CALLS ARE AN INVASION OF MY PRIVACY, WHAT DO YOU THINK? I SEEMED TO ALWAYS GET THESE CALLS WHEN I AM EXPECTING A CLIENT CALL. AND HOW ABOUT THE CALLS THAT SAY THEY ARE NOT SELLING ANYTHING THEY JUST WANT YOU TO TAKE A SURVEY?

Well as you can see from Alans comments, my friend and I were misinformed. But the info above can also be used to register your home phones too, which as we all know are sold to Telemarketers! I registered my cell phones anyway, better safe than sorry!

Comments (11)

ama hender
Lone Tree, CO

 Cell Chat Thanks for reminding me!! 





Oct 21, 2008 03:25 AM
Cheryl Winn
Keller Williams Realty - Rock Hill, SC

Thanks for the info.

Oct 21, 2008 03:36 AM
GENEIE MCINTOSH
EQUITY UTAH- SOLID - Heber City, UT

Amanda, A friend shared this with me, I had forgotten also! By the way cute smileys!

Your Friend, Geneie

Oct 21, 2008 08:51 AM
GENEIE MCINTOSH
EQUITY UTAH- SOLID - Heber City, UT

Cheryl, Glad to be of some help, besure to share this with your other friends too!

Your Friend, Geneie

Oct 21, 2008 08:52 AM
Robin Scott
Robin Scott, REALTOR® - Austin, TX
Broker, REALTOR® - Austin Texas

Geneie, Great post and short too. Lots of content in a small space.

Oct 22, 2008 04:42 AM
Rick Turner
Key Realty - Toledo, OH
Puts People In Their Places!!

Geneie,

Now that was fast and easy!  Thanks for the pointer!!!

Oct 22, 2008 04:55 AM
Tatyana Sturm
Exit Realty DTC - Aurora, CO
Denver Realtor, GRI, Denver/ Aurora CO Relocation

i hate the survey ones, if i wanted to do a survery I would have called in my self, thanks for the link

Oct 22, 2008 06:36 AM
Alan May
Jameson Sotheby's International Realty - Evanston, IL
Home is where the hearth is.

Geneie, this is not true...

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

always check any e-mail you get with snopes.com, before sending it out... most of those things that sound too good to be true, or too bad to be possible.... are neither true, nor possible.

Oct 22, 2008 06:45 AM
GENEIE MCINTOSH
EQUITY UTAH- SOLID - Heber City, UT

ALAN, THANKS FOR THE NEW INFO! I'M SORRY IF I CAUSED ANY UNDO ALARM! THE INFO ABOVE CAN ALSO BE USED TO REGISTER YOUR HOME PHONES AS WELL! I REGISTERED ALL MY PHONES- BETTER SAFE THAN SORRY!

THANKS AGAIN, GENEIE

Oct 23, 2008 11:20 AM
Jim Frimmer
HomeSmart Realty West - San Diego, CA
Realtor & CDPE, Mission Valley specialist

As Alan said. That email is at least 10 years old that I know of. If you get the one about Microsoft wanting to pay you money for each email you forward, that one currently is making the rounds again and is also bogus.

Unfortunately, registering any of your phones don't prevent the political robocalls. Seems that the legislators exempted political phone calls from the various do-not-call registries. Wonder why that is.

Oct 25, 2008 10:46 AM
Todd Clark - Retired
eXp Realty LLC - Tigard, OR
Principle Broker Oregon

Even being on this list and telling people to take me off their list, I still get 10-15 calls a day from marketing people. I HATE IT!

Todd Clark, Helping Families Home - www.IFoundYourNewHome.com

Nov 19, 2008 11:38 PM