[ale] OT: should I be worried?

[Scott Castaline]

Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 06:37 -0500, Tim Watts wrote:
>   
>> I routinely get voice spam on my land line phone about how I urgently
>> need to call a number about my soon-to-expire auto warranty (which I
>> don't have). (Yes, I'm one of the last 20 people in the country who is
>> not on the national DNC list -- don't ask why.) I can live with that.
>> But I was spooked a few days ago: After making a number of calls on my
>> cell, the message suddenly arrived on my cell phone where I NEVER get
>> spam. Is it possible or likely that this is more than just an eerie
>> coincidence?
>>     
>
> My guess is that it is just a coincidence... I have been getting those
> calls for a while now, myself.
>
> Going on a (still off-topic) tangent, I thought cell phones were not
> supposed to be called by these companies in the first place.
>
> 	--- Mike
>
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Nope, I believe that they are now open territory, that's why there is 
now a DNC list for cell phones. Although I ran into something that since 
portability of phone #s went into effect that most lists do not 
differentiate between landlines and cell #s anymore.