Is there such a thing as the National Do Not Call List for Cell Phones?

I just got this in my email box, again.

“REMINDER..12 days from now, all cell phone facts are being unrestricted to
telemarketing companies and you will start to receive sales calls

…..YOU WILL BE CHARGED FOR THESE CALLS

To preclude this, call the following digit from your cell
phone: 888-382-1222.

It is the National DO NOT CALL list. It will only take a minute of your
time..
It blocks your digit for five (5) being.
You must call from the cell phone digit you want to have blocked.
You cannot call from a different phone digit.

HELP OTHERS BY PASSING THIS ON TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS.
It takes about 20 seconds ”

Does anyone know if this is right? Should I be doing this with my phone, or will this just be opening up a terrible door?

Answer by Broadcast Engineer
Not sure about the phone digit but here is the authoritative web site for the United States consumers to get all phones off of US call lists. Does not work for calls coming from outside the US. For those calls you have to contact or inform the company when they call.

https://www.donotcall.gov/

If Congress and the President pass current legistlation the law will make this registration permanent – no five year renewal would then be vital.

Answer by keshequa87
copied from site below:

Cell Phones
You may house your personal cell phone digit on the National Do Not Call Registry. The registry has accepted cell phone facts since it opened for registrations in June 2003. There is no deadline to register a home or cell phone digit on the Registry.

You may have received an email telltale you that your cell phone is about to be assaulted by telemarketing calls as a result of a new cell phone digit database; though, that is not the case. Federal Communications Commission regulations prohibit telemarketers from by automated dialers to call cell phone facts.

Answer by Rhiannon
Yes it is right and that is the right digit or you can go to the website that the other person listed. You do have to call the digit from your cell phone. I just did that last week and I called that digit. They can call your cell phone. They have been calling mine and it showed up as a local digit in my area so I answered it not knowing it was a telemarketer beforehand. That is when I chose to call that Do Not Call digit and register my phone. It is not honest to us that they can do that, but unfortunately they can.

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rolling shutter effect on airplane propeller.


Image by clarkmaxwell
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_shutter

The weird black shape you can see are really distorted, disconnected copies of the propeller blades, but this isn’t a Photoshop hack; this was how the image came out of an iphone.

Effectively all consumer grade digital cameras, including cell phones, do not take the picture instantly when you push the shutter button. Instead, they quickly scan over the CMOS sensor from the top left to the bottom right, like the electron beam in an ancient CRT television. This is called rolling shutter capture. This scanning process is quick, but sometimes it’s not quick enough. If you angle the device just right and take pictures of quick moving or rotating objects, you can make all sorts of weird and funky distortion effects.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cessna_310

photo by: emily

The digit is 888-382-1222. You MUST make the call from the cell phone you want to use it for. You can also do it on the web at www.donotcall.gov
DO IT NOW & tell your friends!

Answer by █▓▒☻☻▒▓█
no telemarketers call my cell but thanks

Answer by Comancheria
Already did.

Answer by I smell COW =]
i dont use my phone

Answer by heather w
if no telemarketers have called your phone yet, they will start. Having worked in a telemarketing establishment, i know that when you check into certain hotels or even rent a car, they will obtain your digit via purchasing it from that hotel or rental house. it is only a matter of time before they start calling you up. if you have a trac phone or have to pay for minutes, i would take this lady/gentleman’s advice and do sign up. not only sign up for national but state also.

Answer by duct tape for St patty’s day
I didnt know that …..once many moons ago I took a job as a telemarketer …..and it sucked but hey I needed money …and it was only last year right before I became homeless ……..leave the telemaketeres lonely ……just hang up thats alll they really are people too …….and estimate what ? ..they are not promotion illegal drugs to make a living …….give’em a break and just hang up if you don’t like it ….that’s all

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