Do Not Call Registry

[mtnlaurel]

I have always meant to put my # on the Do Not Call Registry, but never got around to it until I got a Scammer Text on my cell phone today.

Here's the link if anyone else still needs to do it:
www.donotcall.gov

[ApatheticNoMore]

If you have a landline an unlisted number is far more effective. You simply won't get unwanted calls except from a few businesses you unfortunately gave your number to.

[bunnys]

I'm on for cell. Was on for landline--when I had one.

Never get calls I don't want unless I give someone my #.

Also put my address on the lists for junk mail and added my address for credit offers the other day. Sick of the junk mail.

[JaneV2.0]

I'm on the DNC list, but what works best for me is turning off the ringer on my land line and using my cell as a pager. I've been batting down junk mail for years; it's time to call or write for a permanent fix.

[Blackdog Lin]

Thank you! mtnlaurel. I too have been meaning to get this done - and your link made it too easy. Done and done.

[Jilly]

Thanks for the reminder. It is worth noting that any telephone number, listed or not, is vulnerable to the auto-dialers that many marketers use. If you have ever answered your phone and no one was there, it is most likely, unless you have a stalker, that a marketer used an auto-dialer system/program and when the first answering number connected, the others, you included, were dumped.

These systems do not even use lists, they just dial random numbers until they hit. They start with an area code, one of the exchanges within that code and the rest is randomly generated. Sucky.

I have a new pay-as-you-go phone and I started receiving spam calls on it within days of activating it, and the actual number did not exist anywhere before that. One really clever tactic someone is using is to leave a message for a particular person and ask the recipient to call a number to report if they are not the intended customer/client. They establish that the number is in use and then the calls probably begin in earnest. Dastardly.

I never answer any number with which I am not familiar, but I do listen to any voice mail, which might be just as bad. :~)