Some good news from the FCC – they just put into effect tighter rules against telemarketing and spam texts. The rules basically state that written permission (which means on paper or electronic) is now required before reaching out to bothering people with prerecorded or direct sales calls.
My question to you, the reader, is this: Do you receive junk calls and/or texts on your cell phone now?
If I were to count how many junk calls/texts I get in a year, the number is around 10 to 20 combined, but maybe I’m just lucky to receive so few of them.
The way I handle junk calls and texts to my cell phone is that whenever I see an unfamiliar number, I will not answer it. After that, I Google the number. More often than not I’ll end up at 800notes, and bear in mind that website lists all types of telemarketer numbers and not just the toll-free variant. From there I usually find out very quickly whether the number that called with a telemarketer or not, and if so, they go straight to my "Reject" group on my cell phone.
It’s important to note that almost no two cell phone block calls the same way (although I wish they did). Some don’t offer the feature at all, or one model will block calls but not texts, the other will block texts but not calls and vice versa. Cell phones are weird like that.
However, the question remains – do you get junk calls/texts on your cell phone? If so, how often does it happen and what do you do about it, if anything?
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I don’t recieve an awful lot on my cell phone, however my land line number at my house recieves them constantly and for that reason i rarely answer the house phone (if they want me, they can call my cell phone).
this is so interesting post to read it..
I don’t use the landline except for the DSL connection. Since I don’t use a landline with voice, the telco has a “dummy” number attached to the account that occasionally gets called. Since I’m using a laser copy, fax, printer as one of my printers, I hooked the fax line port up to the landline so they will just get the carrier tone whenever they call, no matter how many times they call. It seems to work though. Unfortunately, there isn’t a similar feature built-in on cellphones. It would be nice if there was a way to pickup the call on the fly using the fax machine carrier tone without having to actually answer the phone. Spam texts should be a federal offense and easily reported by forwarding the text to a repository similar to spam@uce.gov for regular spam.
I recieve and It’s extremly
irritative