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Hoax! Cell Phone Numbers Go Public-Dismiss As Seasonal Rumor
Thursday, May 14th, 2009 @ 9:27 am | We Think
It’s that time of year friends. It’s the season when some one begins an interplanetary hoax about cell phone numbers going public. We received an email this morning from one of our fans suggesting we pass this faulty bit of information to our friends.
This baseless rumor has been around for at least four years. The email which sends cell phone subscribers to the panic button has language like:
“Cell phone numbers are being released to the telemarketing companies. “
Or,
“You will be billed for these calls”
and
“You must call from the telephone number you wish to have blocked.”
It’s all a bunch of hooey! Read what the Federal Trade Commission, (FTC), said about this subject more than two years ago. Or check out the article by “The Gadget Hound” Ben Patterson who wrote in January of this year. In it Patterson says:
“Snopes.com—the exhaustive Web-based index of urban legends—has a thorough entry on this particular rumor, which it quickly busts like a piñata. “
As urban legends, rumors and hoaxes go, this one is resilient and seemingly will not die.
Besides after the camflamma over the proposed Food Safety Act of 2009 we’re not likely to publish anything without at least spending sometime conducting the most superficial research.
This one was easy. A quick query into the major search engines using the phrase “Cell Phone Number Go Public” provides enough fodder from the results returned to easily prove this announcement about cell phones to be erroneous. We believe Snopes is a credible source.
We’re dismissing this one for the fake alert it is proven to be….again.
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