Cell phone numbers going public tomorrow REMINDER....all cell phone numbers areIf my friend is reading this: I am sorry, I do not mean to embarrass you. You are not the only person sending this type of thing; however, yours is just the one last "scary" email I have received that has made me boil over. Friends: emails labeled as noted below are usually untrue, worthless and time/space-consuming.
being released to telemarketing companies tomorrow and you will start to receive
sale calls. ....YOU WILL BE CHARGED FOR THESE CALLS To prevent this, call
the following number from your cell phone: 888-382-1222. It is the
National DO NOT CALL list. It will only take a minute of your time It
blocks your number for five (5) years. You must call from the cell phone number
you want to have blocked. You cannot call from a different phone number. HELP
OTHERS BY PASSING THIS ON TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS. It take about 20
seconds.
Perfume robbers
Kidnapped Child Rumor
Evan Trembley
"to my child": Rachel Arlington
Aspartame
Deodorant causing breast cancer
Anything with a title like that, or is a forward of a forward of a forwarded forward...Please do NOT SEND IT TO ME! I promise not to send you the next "email 40 ppl or your mother dies" chain letter I get. From time to time I do get some items that are interesting to me. I will take the time to research the issue, see at the very least if there is some information on it at Snopes or urbanlegend.com and then (and ONLY then) i will forward it, removing all of the previous forwards and indents and such so you as the audience would only get the "meat" and not the "filler".
In the past, it was bad enough to get an envelope in the mail addressed to you with no return label/address....it could be a chain mail letter...AHHHHHHH; however, now that we have access to the majority of the world at our fingertips, that doesn't mean that you/me/we should forward every precious nugget of half-truthful information.
Even if this were true (the cell-phone thing), I won't get charged for the calls as I don't answer calls from #'s that I do not know. If I do not answer the call, I don't get charged for the minutes. Additionally, I have a plan that has enough minutes that I end up losing them after they roll-over for so many months. I in fact don't know of anyone who pays "per call" or "per minute" on their wireless plan unless they are using prepaid wireless devices in which case, please DO call the # for the Do Not Call list!!!
OK, rant is over.
1 comment:
I agree with everything you are saying about the Ashly Flores, missing child, cell phone ban set to expire genre of chain e-mail. Other things I'd add to my "don't forward to me list" include inspirational e-mails (I won't be inspired), patriotic e-mails (I don't need an e-mail to love my country), and chain e-mails where the hook is "add your name to a list and Microsoft will send money" (I'm sure we all get enough spam in our e-mails).
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