I have a feeling that everybody who doesn’t want to get called is going to sign up at this site and are actually being tricked to give out more info, and will eventually get spammed my e-mail and telemarketers even harder. I’m just strange that way I guess.
Evil telemarketers:
“Ah Hah!, we’ve got all of them now sir! Bwahhaaah hah hah hah!”
Yeah, I’m not so sure about it. I signed up online a couple of days ago, and I have not yet received a confirmation e-mail to which I must respond in order for my number to be added to the list.
PA, I’ve already signed up. The only info they ask for is your phone number (or numbers, you can add up to 3 at a time) and a valid e-mail address.
I thought about it being a scam, too, but I’m not giving out any info that isn’t pretty readily available. Seems pretty safe to me.
I have also not received a confirmation email. However, I followed the link from cnn.com so I’m relatively certain it wasn’t a bogus URL. I only worry that the web design team underestimated the ingenuity of the hackers who would want a ready-made list of active email addresses and the phone numbers that go with them.
For some reason, I think that, fine or no, reputable telemarketers wouldn’t wish to call the numbers on the do-not-call list simply because it would be a waste of a valuable 15 seconds that could be spent calling someone likely to buy. Why would any salesman waste his time calling a number he knows will be a dead end?
FISH
I don’t think so. I signed up for the Wisconsin DNC list online last year, and everything has gone smoothly - telemarketer calls are down, way down, and I haven’t noticed any spam increase. I use my Yahoo address to sign up and most spam hits the bulk mail folder (which I rarely look at - I just empty it) anyways.
The reason a lot of people didn’t get an e-mail(I tried yesterday and didn’t get mine until today) was because the site was totally overwhelmed, up to 1000 hits per second and times.
I’d personally perfer a device that allows you to remotely destroy the telemarketers phone when they call you, but until then…
Because it also creates a big, big list of valid e-mail addresses, which we all know spammer will pay for?
If the Google experience I just had is any indicator, you may not even get email.
I filled in the form at Google to have our phone taken off the “easy search” thing where all you have to do is enter the area code-phone number and it will give a map to your house! I thought a one-step result of that type was excessive. I’d rather a stalker go to at least two steps.
In any case, our state has had a DNC list for a while and we’ve been on it and IF a telemarketer gets by it, we politely inform them that they’re breaking the law.
Only one had the gall to try to argue us out of that and was treated to a click in reply.
How does one go about getting this form?
Joe K
If you go to Google and type in the 10-digit phone number for your phone (include area code xxx-xxx-xxxx) then if your phone is in their directory it’ll come back with your name and address. You then have some map options (including Mapquest).
Next to this is a phone icon and some message about if you want your number removed from their search. Click the icon and it takes you to the form. (The icon may be down the page – I’m doing this from memory.)
You give them your name and city and email address.
They say it will be handled withing 48 hours.
I never got email but our number no longer brings back anything but a page saying we’re not in their directory.
Yes, the government is out to get you. We never landed on the moon. The CIA killed JFK. TV secrety emits rays that control our mind. And the donotcall.gov is a way to let telemarkets have your phone number and email address.
Well one things for sure, they’re after our money. And to me, that translates “out to get you”.
If you don’t want to risk spam, then sign up with another email if you want, get one from yahoo, they are free…
wireless, the phone number itself is the only thing that would be retained, according th the various articles. And read me again: I mentioned the list of emails already, thanks.
FISH
Aren’t .gov extensions limited only to official goverment sites?
Yeah, that is my first thought too, that this is a scam for Big Brother Watching Me.
If Big Brother is that bored that he has to watch my life, well, bring it on. I’ll put him into a coma.
Sorry, FISH - did my reply come off as snarky to you? It wasn’t intended. Really.
And you mentioned hackers and e-mails, but not the monetary value of the list, so I didn’t make the connection with your second paragraph and telemarketers.
Again, sorry!
-Wireless