[funguy37]

CELL PHONE SPAM

For the past few weeks I have been receiving phone calls with an electronic message:

"If you are (name mentioned) press 1 ...if you are not (name mentioned) press 2"

same foreign sounding name each time

I immediately hang up, i'm certain it is a scam that allows them access to my cell phone... don't even want to think what the next cell bill would be should I press either 1 or 2...

[bear]

Good advice! If the caller is from the U.S. and you are on the "no call list" it is a violation of federal law. If they are from another country the law does not apply. Sometimes you can tell foreign calls because a strange number will show on the caller ID (e.g. 1001). Once you give your cell phone number to anyone, all bets are off, and the law does not apply. Moral: Don't write your cell phone number on any forms.

[galaxy1]

funguy37, on 22 June 2009 - 10:11 AM, said:

<b>CELL PHONE SPAM</b> <img src="http://mma2om.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/< #EMO_DIR#>/lildevil.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":lildevil:" border="0" alt="lildevil.gif" />

For the past few weeks I have been receiving phone calls with an electronic message:

<b>"If you are (name mentioned) press 1 ...if you are not (name mentioned) press 2"</b>

same foreign sounding name each time

I immediately hang up, i'm certain it is a scam that allows them access to my cell phone... don't even want to think what the next cell bill would be should I press either 1 or 2...

Thanks for the alert! I think you are right (collecting cell phone numbers to sell for others to spam).

Frank

[leprechaun0075]

I only give out my cell phone number to my family and a few trusted friends. If I can't recognize the phone number of an incoming call on my landline or my cell phone, I won't even answer my phone.

One can never go wrong underestimating the integrity of marketing people.

[galaxy1]

leprechaun0075, on 24 February 2010 - 03:47 PM, said:

I only give out my cell phone number to my family and a few trusted friends. If I can't recognize the phone number of an incoming call on my landline or my cell phone, I won't even answer my phone.

One can never go wrong underestimating the integrity of marketing people.

It bothers me that one of the questions on the new census form is your phone number. More and more people use cell phones as their primary phone. I fear that some of these marketeers with low integrity will manage to get the phone numbers (under Freedom of Information) and our cell phones will be bombarded with telemarketing calls.

Frank