Unlisted # for free

"Rod" <[email protected]> wrote in article
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> Brian peterson wrote:

> ::: They charge you monthly for an unlisted/unpublished number. Check

> ::: your bill to see if there is a line item charge for that.

> :::

> ::

> ::

> :: I don't pay for an unlisted #, what I did was have the phone company

> :: list the phone under another name like Harry Johnson that way it is

> :: in a

> :: way unlisted. Just don't give your # out, and have it listed on the

> :: national do not call list. I haven't gotten a telemarketer call in

> :: over 2 years.

> ::

> :: [posted via phonescoop.com]

>

> Same here. If anyone calls and asks for the cat we know it's a telemarketer.

>

>



Right, the net effect is that we have an unlisted # without paying for
it.



It also works better than an unlisted # because someone can't call the
phone company and get the unlisted # in other unscrupulous ways.

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"Brian peterson" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> It also works better than an unlisted # because someone can't call the
> phone company and get the unlisted # in other unscrupulous ways.
>

I will argue that point. We have an unpublished number and we don't receive
any (as in maybe 2 per year ... from MCI) solicitous phone calls. Now we
are on the Minnesota do not call list and have not recieved any calls at all
(other than political surveys) in more than 6 months.

Tom Veldhouse

"Thomas T. Veldhouse" <[email protected]> wrote in article
<[email protected]>:
>
> "Brian peterson" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>
> > It also works better than an unlisted # because someone can't call the
> > phone company and get the unlisted # in other unscrupulous ways.
> >
>
> I will argue that point. We have an unpublished number and we don't receive
> any (as in maybe 2 per year ... from MCI) solicitous phone calls. Now we
> are on the Minnesota do not call list and have not recieved any calls at all
> (other than political surveys) in more than 6 months.
>
> Tom Veldhouse
>


I was generally speaking in terms of credit offers, and telemarketing.
And specifically speaking about in my case a stalker of my wife.

I prefer the different name, because we had an unlisted # for 2 years,
and still had telemarketers, and other people calling. When I asked how
they got an unlisted # they said the phone company. To me that is like
how the phone company gives you caller id then gives businesses unlisted
#'s on the caller id, and they then try to sell a privacy manager
program to block out the unwanted calls.

I never ever give out my real phone # now instead I give an email
address, and someone calling and the phone company asking for the # of
Brian Peterson will draw a blank.

A little know proviso of the nation do not call registry is that people
may call who have business with you, and that also included people
associated with the phone company. So say SBC operates a telemarketing
operation the telemarketers would have access to your #.

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