EULA be sorry!

[athelind]

Your Obedient Serpent just got a spam call on his cell phone.

It wasn't one of the scam calls about my "automobile service contract" expiring, the ones that everyone was getting for a while there. This was a local carpet cleaning outfit.

I assume that it was a spam call, and not a wrong number. I hung up as soon as she identified herself.You know

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[athelind]

Dude. You SO get a cookie.

[azhdragon]

this is why the american mobile phone system is so unfair.

it costs *you* money when someone rings you ... an event you have no control over, in cases like the above for example.

I couldn't believe it when Cingular turned out to be charging me for making calls that didn't even connect - it rang out at the other end, and yet I still lost my 25c worth of credit, just the same as if I had connected.

there's something seriously f*cked up about the american phone system.

[tombfyre]

I've been getting a lot of spam calls on my cell as well, but they're mostly of the automated kind. Plus the odd request for a survey or market research group. Further proof that our do-not-call list up here failed miserably.

People there selling off the numbers to telemarketers probably didn't help.

[araquan]

In my case it was the bogus debt collectors that got a hold of my number. I managed to ward them off though. Mostly by telling them in no uncertain terms that they would be hearing from the FTC if they didn't stop calling me.

[athelind]

My cell is the number I use on my resume, so I EXPECT and HOPE FOR numbers I don't recognize. This includes area codes -- we have four or five different ones within a 30-minute drive.

Of course, that just makes it even MORE annoying when some spammer calls!