<p>A notice was circulating at church yeaterday - large batches of cell numbers that had not heretofore been available to telemarketers are being turned over to the telemarketers this week??? Anyone hear about this?? The big deal is that you get charged for every telemarketing call you receive, even if unsolicited. I don’t know if it was a coincidence, but last night I had a VM on my cellphone from a computer trying to sell me DVDs.</p>
<p>Anyway, I logged onto <a href=“http://www.donotcall.gov%5B/url%5D”>www.donotcall.gov</a> and registered all our cell phone numbers, we had not done this before.</p>
<p>This is a hoax that has been circulating for about two years now. It is not true that cell phone numbers will be made available to telemarketers, and you do not need to register your cell phone numbers. Last night was a coincidence.</p>
<p>snopes.com is usually an excellent source of sniffing out these “urban legends”. The research on this one can be read [here[/url</a>]. That page includes a link to the definitive [url=<a href=“http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2005/04/dnc.htm]Federal”>www.ftc.gov/opa/2005/04/dnc.htm]Federal</a> Trade Commission notice](<a href=“http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/cell411.asp]here[/url”>www.snopes.com/politics/business/cell411.asp) on this subject. So don’t worry, someone was just passing on an urban legend!</p>