evil telemarketers calling cell phones

How would they even get your cell number? Crazy.

All I got was a fax machine

My rule is this, if I don't know who is calling, I don't answer. While this means I might miss out on being Charlize Theron's date to the Oscars, it makes my life run a bit smoother.

I thought it was still illegal too (because people have to pay for a set amount of minutes) However, I did get a telemarketing call on mine a few weeks ago too. I hope I don't start getting a barrage of these stupid things. I don't even bother answering my home phone anymore because 90% of the time it's telemarketers calling. I just let it go straight to the answering machine.

[Edited on Aug 03, 2005 by mamet]

They're text marketing too. My dad got one the other day.

Actually, according to this, they still are barred from calling cell phones.

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[Edited on Jun 09, 2005 by mamet]

It's interesting - I've been working in voice over ip, and heard about a client of one of our clients getting fined pretty heavily for violating that. I guess they can get fined individually per state, as well as nationally.

I wasn't aware the rules regarding mobile phones had changed, either, but if you notice that page uses the verbiage "home or mobile phone."

That says autodialers - think it applies to call centers, too? (Where you're being called by a live human being..)

Sometimes I think I'm the only backwards redneck left on the planet that refuses to get a cell phone.

Wait: You have to pay to *receive* calls? Bonkers.

For people in the UK: It is illegal for people to call you if you have registered your number with the Telephone Preference Service, or if you have asked them not to. I still get the occasional call, but not nearly as many as I used to. The only time I've got an SMS since I reported it to ICSTIS and the operator got a £5,000 fine and a 6 month ban, so that's was nice.

TPS - UK

A couple more points: The "Don't press nine or they'll charge you a gajillion pounds" thing? That's a hoax.

The really annoying one at the moment is American Robot Voices. I'm not sure that this is much help, but at least it's a start.

I never answer unless I have the number in my phone. Even then, I often don't answer. Thank you for the link, though. Annoying phone calls that threaten to use up my minutes are... well, annoying.

Just do what I do. Take them into the toilet with you.

I thought I was the only one who did that.

s5, since when do the Amish carry cellular technology?

I signed up for it, thanks s5.

Whenever telemarketers call me I just tell them to hold for a second and then I put the phone up to my computer speakers and blast the most obnoxious metal music that I have. And then after a minute I say "Hello are you still there?...Oh ok. Just wait, could you hold on one more time for me, thanks." And then I put the phone back up to the speakers.

Some stupid magazine company called me trying to sell me a 5 yr subscription to 4 magazines I already have for $20/month. They could never tell me which mags I had. I was surprised that they called on my cell but then one of my friends told me that because a lot of people were putting their lan phone on the Do Not Call list, they got the okay to use cell #s which is stupid because they are wasting YOUR minutes. I put my number on the list and they stopped calling me. One time before my number took effect, they called and mispronounced my name so I told them they had the wrong number

I get text messaging spam all the time.

God yeah. Every time I get in, there's a message on the answer phone from an American robot

People are always trying to gte me to change my phone contract to them by cold-calling my mobile...bastards!