This morning my cell phone was called by six different fax machines one after another. And I called the verizon and they were all like, so what?
I just found it weird because I was of the assumption that automated dialing of cell phones was illegal. And anybody who does this should be shot.
I think this is some pretext for a cell phone telemarketer to start calling phones. How he got the number I don't know because I don't give out my cell phone number.
What this guy is doing is testing some automation system by which he'll start mass calling people's cell phones. When people start picking up the calls and just hearing the "beep beep beep" of a fax machine they'll stop answering their phones. Next comes phase 2, now since people won't answer their phones, the machines will then get into your voice mail. From there, they'll just start leaving advertising messages.
What you have now is a voice mail spam operation. You'll be deluged by the same amount of voice mail spam that plagues email these days.
Imagine it, the next time you check your voice mail, you'll be confronted with ads for some drug or penis enhancement or diet pill. And you'll have to sift through all this voice mail spam in order to find the messages from people you want.
As far as I know, there's no filtering system for voice mail. It will be nearly impossible to discern a spam voice mail from a real voice mail. This troubles me and maybe I'm fanatical about this. But I think people should really be alarmed.
here are the numbers:
212-832-0274
212-832-9274
212-832-3976
212-832-0889
212-832-9582
212-832-0375
If anybody can trace any of these numbers back to some jerk who is setting up his fax machines to dial people's cell phones, could you shoot him and get back to me?
Posted by joel at November 9, 2004 09:20 AM