National Do Not Call Registry
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Mygetaway | Thursday, July 03, 2003 - 09:00 am     For anyone who hasn't seen this or done it already, here's the link to the DO NOT CALL registry page. You can do it online, or by phone. They just started doing it in our State. Yey!! I really hope this works. http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/edcams/donotcall/index.html |
Mygetaway | Thursday, July 03, 2003 - 09:43 am     Whoops.. I guess I forgot to mention this is for telemarketers. I guess I figured it was self explanatory, but just in case... Sorry |
Squaredsc | Thursday, July 03, 2003 - 09:45 am     its ok mga. i have already registered via puter. someone sent an email around at work and home. so im waiting to see if at&t will leave me alone. |
Bastable | Thursday, July 03, 2003 - 10:07 am     You can sign up now, but it doesn't take effect until October. Also, if you ever told AT&T in the past that they could call you (by accidentally ignoring a box during an online signup, for example--a common trick) and you normally do business with them, they could still call you because they can claim you're already a customer. Something to think about--but after the list kicks in, it will be easy to call the few businesses who keep contacting you and tell them to stop it. |
Squaredsc | Thursday, July 03, 2003 - 10:29 am     shukran bastable, i am an at&t customer and i just hang up on them. |
Karuuna | Thursday, July 03, 2003 - 10:35 am     The list doesn't include banks, however, or any nonprofits. Banks are some of the biggest offenders with their credit card and refinance your mortgage offers. Guess bankers have a darn big lobby in Washington! PS - If you're in Colorado and you are signed up for the state do not call list, you will automatically be listed for the national one. And a more comprehensive do-not-call list is operated by the Direct Marketing Association, as well as do not mail (for junk mail), and do not spam (for legitimate companies, doesn't work for the *** enlargement groups). The website is the-dma.org. |
Willsfan | Thursday, July 03, 2003 - 11:32 am     I signed up my home phone two days ago and you can also add your cell phone number. You can do three numbers at a time - click on the email they send to confirm it and that's it. Very simple process. I didn't put my mobile numbers (2) on their list because the telemarketers download the entire list in order to see who not to call & since I have never recieved a call (yet) why should I put my number up for them to perhaps sell to someone overseas that isn't covered by our laws. Does this make any sense? I don't know how to explain it. I don't want anyone to know my cell number. And since I use Bank Of America, Sears, Whirlpool, Visa, and Bank of Oklahoma they can still call me twice a day trying to sell me something. I have caller ID so when I'm home I don't even pick up if I don't recognize the number. |
Sanfranjoshfan | Thursday, July 03, 2003 - 12:35 pm     I'm holding off for now...I've had an unlisted number for years and years and my telemarketing calls are very rare, and when they DO happen, I ask to be put on their do not call list and they don't call again. My worry is this...I already get some political calls, and if this list does not apply to politicians and banks and nonprofits....then who's to say that those groups can't check the list to GET new numbers that they don't already have? After all, they CAN call those numbers legally, right? I'll wait....and in the meantime I'll hope that this prediction that I heard on a news show does not happen....that those durn telemarketing <self edited> don't simply switch to SPAM!!! |
Whoami | Thursday, July 03, 2003 - 01:21 pm     I'm so grateful for those DNC lists! My mom has a Chase visa card. They'd call her 3 or 4 times a day to sell her life insurance and lord knows what else. It got to where they'd call, I'd answer, and ask whose calling. As soon as I heard Chase, I'd tell them she was unavailable if they're only calling to sell her something. Sometimes I'd just take the phone away from my face and talk loudly to Mom, "It's Chase again, do you want to talk to them?" She'd say no, and I'd get back on (knowing they'd heard the whole thing, and tell them. Sometimes they'd already hung up by the time I put the phone to my ear. One time, the caller got persnickety and wanted to know why she didn't want to come to the phone. And I told them "cause she's sick of getting three or four calls a day from you guys trying to sell her something she's told you over and over again that she's not interested. In fact, she's considering cancelling her account with you because of it." I don't know if it was that last call from them and my response, or the DNC list that inspired it, but thankfully they stopped calling. |
Whoami | Thursday, July 03, 2003 - 03:24 pm     Man Gets Even With Telemarketers  |
Sanfranjoshfan | Thursday, July 03, 2003 - 05:46 pm     Internet spammer can't take what he dishes out http://www.freep.com/money/tech/mwend6_20021206.htm December 6, 2002 BY MIKE WENDLAND FREE PRESS COLUMNIST West Bloomfield bulk e-mailer Alan Ralsky, who just may be the world's biggest sender of Internet spam, is getting a taste of his own medicine. Ever since I wrote a story on him a couple of weeks ago http://www.freep.com/money/tech/mwend22_20021122.htm he says he's been inundated with ads, catalogs and brochures delivered by the U.S. Postal Service to his brand-new $740,000 home. It's all the result of a well-organized campaign by the anti-spam community, and Ralsky doesn't find it funny. "They've signed me up for every advertising campaign and mailing list there is," he told me. "These people are out of their minds. They're harassing me." That they are. Gleefully. Almost 300 anti-Ralsky posts were made on the Slashdot.org Web site, where the plan was hatched after spam haters posted his address, even an aerial view of his neighborhood. "Several tons of snail mail spam every day might just annoy him as much as his spam annoys me," wrote one of the anti-spammers. Ralsky is indeed annoyed. He says he's asked Bloomfield Hills attorney Robert Harrison to sue the anti-spammers. |
Grannyg | Thursday, July 03, 2003 - 06:00 pm     I want his address. |
Tishala | Thursday, July 03, 2003 - 06:00 pm     I just wish these covered those phone calls on electin day. I get calls from Barbara Boxer, Diane Feinstein, Gray Davis, and the whole democratic party every election day. I'm sure they are nice people, but I don't need to have them calling me to remind me to do what I have already done. |
Lucy | Monday, August 25, 2003 - 02:39 pm     bump |
Kealoha | Sunday, August 31, 2003 - 01:47 pm     Today is the last day to register for the "Do Not Call" list, where it takes effect on Oct 1st. If you register after Aug 31st it will take effect 3 months later. Just thought I'd pass this along.
donotcall.gov |
Pamy | Sunday, August 31, 2003 - 01:56 pm     Thanks for the reminder! |
Sia | Monday, September 01, 2003 - 09:12 am     I registered yesterday, just making it in time. I'm glad to have done it. Thanks for the reminder. There's a toll-free number, as well. You just need to call from the phone that you want added to the list. The number is 1-888-382-1222. |
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