CONSUMER ALERT

Do not give out your cell phone numbers or you will be telemarketed to death. Two more emails from people who work in INCOMING CALL CENTERS, one in Omaha and the other in Santa Barbara. According to both, any sales person failing to ask for the cell phone number is subject to termination and people working there get a bounty of $2 per five cell phone numbers collected. This is because people forget to put their cell phone numbers on the don't call lists and leads containing these numbers can be sold for a higher price than those leads without cell phone numbers. When you "call in" on an 800 number for goods and services and give out any phone number that isn't on a don't call list you are in for it. All info is sold to telemarketing companies as soon as your credit card order clears (your money has been collected). They do not care that you will be paying for their solicitations. DON'T GIVE OUT YOUR CELL PHONE NUMBER
Under the too clever by half email the writer says that phone numbers are necessary because the phone number is the password needed to access information on line. If you want their service then you better have a phone number made up. Let somebody else get bothered.