Ignore any email warning you receive that your cell phone number is about to be released to telemarketers unless you sign up for the Do Not Call Registry. These "warnings" are a hoax. Please DO NOT "help others by passing this on to all your friends." Your friends will not thank you for perpetuating the hoax.
Under existing federal law, telemarketers who use auto-dialers (in other words, almost all telemarketers) are prohibited from calling cell phones. There is no legislation pending to change that law.
These hoax warnings have been around for years. They tend to resurface every time the cell phone companies talk about creating a cell phone directory. Adding your number to the Do Not Call Registry will not keep your number out of the directory nor will it prevent anyone who gets your number from calling you.
If you want to sign up for the DNC Registry anyway, call 1-888-382-1222 from the phone that you want excluded or go to www.donotcall.gov. Despite the panicked tones of these hoax emails, there is no deadline for doing so.
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