Cell Phone phone solicitation help please
I am now getting phone solicitations to my cell #. I get charged for those minutes. I called Cingular and they were absolutely no help at all. Said they can't do anything and that it would cost me $36 to change phone #!! Does anyone have any suggestions please?? Does the DoNotCall.gov apply to cell phones too?? |
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VerveUp wrote: Does the DoNotCall.gov apply to cell phones too??
Yes, it does! Also, I make a point of never answering the call for a number I don't recognize or where the incoming number is blocked / unavailable. |
| Really? Are they the same "businesses" contacting you or are they different? |
| I love this forum! Getting such quick responses. The incoming call was an 888 # pre-recorded message about cruises and they left a message in my voice mail.
Why couldn't the dumb girl at Cingular suggest DoNotCall.gov for a solution. I guess since they get paid for the calls they aren't allowed to recommend it? |
ButtersStotch wrote: Really? Are they the same "businesses" contacting you or are they different?
I've seen the incoming call toll free #'s before but don't answer them. This is the first that actually left a message. I know when I first got the phone I kept getting messages for a guy named "Sweet Pea" (  ) but they have since stopped. So I am probably dealing with his cell phone aftermath but the toll free #'s just started. |
| You are getting charged for minutes when the phone calls go to voicemail?? |
| Sometimes phone numbers get re-assigned fairly quickly. I am thinking someone else had your phone number fairly recently and cingular put your number back into circulation and you ended up being assigned the number for your phone. I feel your pain as the home phone number Verizon assigned us at the end of last June belonged to someone else right before we got the number. It is now March of the following year and I am still receiving angry phone calls for someone else. My husband and I have called Verizon several times to complain about the situation to no avail. |
| Is Shaniqua there?
Quote: Shaniqua don't live here no mo! Shaniqua don't live here no mo! Shaniqua don't live here no mo! [Caller:] "Is Shaniqua there?" "HELL NO!" |
ButtersStotch wrote: Really? Are they the same "businesses" contacting you or are they different?
Since she has not given out her number, I think Deb was talking about random, unsolicited calls from unknown businesness. It is true that a company with whom you have an existing business relationship is permitted to call you even if your number is on the do not call list. You can still ask them to take you off of their own calling lists, however. |
Fred,CanYouSeeMe? wrote: Sometimes phone numbers get re-assigned fairly quickly. I am thinking someone else had your phone number fairly recently and cingular put your number back into circulation and you ended up being assigned the number for your phone. I feel your pain as the home phone number Verizon assigned us at the end of last June belonged to someone else right before we got the number. It is now March of the following year and I am still receiving angry phone calls for someone else. My husband and I have called Verizon several times to complain about the situation to no avail.
Phone companies are supposed to "age" the number for a period of time before reassigning it. Sometimes mistakes are made. And really there is nothing the phone company can do if friends, family, and former businesses do not update their own records. Have you tried asking for a new number? Sometimes, the company will waive the fee for this sort of problem, especially if you write a really heartfelt letter. |
| You may also be able to pick up your cellphone's messages from a landline telephone without incurring cell minutes. Some plans DO charge for external VoiceMail access, some do not. Check with your carrier! |
| Telemarketing calls all come from a small number of major companies that other companies have out-sourced to.
There are only 4 or 5 major ones that I am aware of. Each of those has many clients to call for. You can tell them to take you off the list, and they are required by law to do so immediately, though most give a disclaimer that it may take up to 30 days to process the request. That will only get you off one of their clients lists though. You can also request that they take you off their corporate list. That means they have to take you off the list of any company they call on behalf of, via their own company. The do not call list works too, but takes longer. |
| It's weird, though, how it happens. I started getting solicitations a while ago on my cell phone (I'd had the same phone # for years) but all of a sudden I was getting calls. I never answered them and I don't think they left messages. They called at least once a day (it was from 3 or 4 different numbers) for like a month and then stopped and I haven't heard back...
I also around the same time started getting weird text messages on my phone about trips to Veags and going out to bars and bachelor parties...I'd had this number for years when this started happening...the texts were interesting, though!  |
| Is the federal do not call list still in effect? You could put your # on there, and then the solicitations SHOULD stop. |
Valerie wrote: ButtersStotch wrote: Really? Are they the same "businesses" contacting you or are they different? Since she has not given out her number, I think Deb was talking about random, unsolicited calls from unknown businesness. It is true that a company with whom you have an existing business relationship is permitted to call you even if your number is on the do not call list. You can still ask them to take you off of their own calling lists, however. No, I realized that they were unsolicited, I just wondered if it was the same offender every time. Ever since I bought my wedding dress, I've been receiving tons of spam calls, thanks to the bridal shop selling them my information. I thought I was only giving them my number for purposes of calling me about the dress. I don't remember reading anything about giving them permission to share in anything that I filled out but I admit, I haven't gone back to double check it either. Quote: I also around the same time started getting weird text messages on my phone about trips to Veags and going out to bars and bachelor parties...I'd had this number for years when this started happening...the texts were interesting, though!
Steph, this happened to this girl that I work with. One day she came running into my office and said "OMG, look at this one!" It was a text message that said "C'mon, you know I don't hurt kids." It was so creepy but hilarious at the same time. |
VerveUp wrote: The incoming call was an 888 # pre-recorded message about cruises and they left a message in my voice mail.
Sounds like my old company made the call. 
Their messages were like.... "Hi this is so and so, sorry we missed you. I just want to congratulate you on "winning a cruise" blah, blah, blah As a person formally in marketing of this kind of crap I added my cell phone to the DNC list quite a few years ago. If anyone hasn't done so yet I recommend you do. If you are on the DNC list you do have legal recourse against this kind of thing as legit marketing companies are supposed to be cross referencing their call lists against the DNC list. They are also supposed to make sure you are removed from their calling lists if you ask to be removed, even if you aren't on the DNC. Unfortunately these marketing companies aquire lists of phone numbers from other companies that don't use the DNC and you may receive phone calls because of this. The biggest thing I can recommend is when filling out paperwork or contest info is to never put your cell phone on that info. Contest stuff, like sweepstakes to win cars etc.... all take your phone numbers and sell them to marketing companies. BEWARE!! |
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