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Originally Posted by scottmandue
What he said... never give out my number and if my phone doesn't recognize the number I don't answer (if it is important they can leave a voice mail), call me paranoid but I can't help but feeling like if I register at a no call site they will turn around and sell my number.  |
It's the same with "unsubscribe" links in e-mail spam. Some are automatic (i.e. "one-click unsubscribe") and seem to be more legit. The ones I can't stand are the ones that take you to a page that says "enter the e-mail address you want unsubscribed". Yeah, right. I figure most of the times you do that all it's doing is providing some software a valid, now-verified e-mail address for them to sell and mercilessly spam the schyte out of.
To echo the above, I don't ever answer calls from unknown numbers and when they do come in, they get blacklisted / blocked immediately. I rotate mobile numbers every few years (goes hand-in-hand with moving / relocating so it ends up being every 5-6 years and seems to work okay).
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Originally Posted by pksystems
They have to see your number on the do not call list, so they know to never call it.
Of course, if they are outside of the country, they don't have to abide by the list, so the do not call list has been sold to foreigners.
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Ahh, the joys of globalization. One of many, many reasons I think the USA should tell the ROW to eff off and become much more isolationist than we presently are. It wouldn't surprise me at all if the USA-based companies simply forward the DNC registered list to their own subsidiaries who happen to be based overseas, or are simply owned 51% internationally (with the calls still coming out of the same center just "working for" that other subsidiary). The people who promulgate this stuff deserve to be flayed alive, IMHO.