On Sep 5, 2007, at 8:29, Dora Smith wrote:
I got this from my mother in law - took two minutes to register both
my phones (the land line as well); you can also register at
http://www.donotcall.gov - It's a U.S. government program.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/cell411.asp
The cell-phone providers *do not* and *will not* release phone numbers
to telemarketers. Only to spook organisations (NSA, FBI, CIA etc), for
entirely different purposes (listening in though they don't want you to
know that) and that doesn't come out of your pocket.
I suspect that the phone number given to call might not lead to the
official do-not call registry (which does exist for *landlines*, even
though it's only half-efficient) but to some place which collects the
cell-phone numbers (otherwise hard to find, since they're not in any
phonebook) in order to sell them to telemarketers.
This rumour has been going on for over a year now.
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Tamara P Duvall http://t-n-lace.net/
Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland)
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