Do Not Call Services - Stop Phone Solicitations, Anti-Spam, Spam Filtering

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STEP 1: Determine if you need 'Do Not Call'?
...or do you need a global stop spam and anti-Solicitation protection plan

Anti-Solicitation & Anti-Spam

The following information will assist in registration:

The average household receives 2 to 3 phone calls from telemarketers every day. Simply hanging up on them or asking them not to call again does not guarantee that your phone number will not be sold and called with other offers. The Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991, passed to protect consumers from telemarketers, has proven ineffective due to the fact that it simply takes too much time for the average consumer to document and chase down every telemarketer after they have already called.

Every telemarketer must keep a do-not-call list. The FTC adds your phone and fax numbers to their do-not-call lists before you're ever contacted.

The Do Not Call Anti-Solicitation Story

Over ten million users registered in four days. Then a few days later, it was 20 million. This past Wednesday, less than a month after registration opened for the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC's) National Do Not Call Registry, Americans had volunteered 28 million phone numbers, representing over a third of all U.S. households.

There are no signs it will slow down until... After all, who wants to be interrupted during breakfast, lunch or dinner with a pitch for something else you just don't need?

What is just as amazing is 89 percent of the numbers registered were done online, making the FTC's National Do Not Call initiative likely the most successfully launched site ever. For two weeks after it went live on June 25, the registry was the most searched-for site on the major search engines.

"It's been an off-the-charts hit," according to an FTC public affairs spokesperson. "We anticipated huge demand, and we got it."

Reports indicate that "The only spike in phone registration was the first two days the line east of the Mississippi was open." It is estimated the Web-to-phone registration ratio has been about 89:11.

The quantity of online registrations proves how important people find permission and privacy which are at the Do Not Call core values.

Most people find the Internet Do Not Call registry more convenient. But people's home time is also very precious -- which is why they don't want to be called by telemarketers. Even registering for the phone solicitor ban is giving up time at home."

The FTC is delighted. "Part of our mission is getting out consumer info on a lot of issues," an FTC spokesperson explains. "The Internet is a much more efficient method, given our budget constraints and the amount of information we need to get out. And it's the way people want to get information."

Hear that, telemarketers?

The public is saying: do not call. Many people are anti-Solicitation and anti-spam. Do you want to stop telemarketers, stop spam, stop junk email, abuse, unsolicited bulk email and all the riff-raff? Is do-it-yourself spam blocking, filtering, and hitting the delete key where you really want to spend your time?

Can You Stop Unsolicited email? Can You Stop Spam?

Maybe the Do Not Call registry is only doing a partial job? After all, do we really want to wait months to get on the list? Will the FTC really regulate and monitor the offenders? And what about all the other ways 'marketers' invade upon our private time? Does the word SPAM ring loudly in anyone's mind?

"So much junk mail is being sent -- 76 billion unsolicited e-mail messages will be delivered in 2003, according to eMarketer, an Internet research firm -- that fighting it can seem a waste of time. Filters are an imperfect tool, and asking to get your e-mail address removed from a mailing list is often an exercise in futility. Depressingly, the Federal Trade Commission recently reported that two-thirds of "unsubscribe" links in spam e-mail failed to work."
Wall Street Journal

There are two types of SPAM. Unsolicited Commercial Email UCE (SPAM) and Unsolicited Pandering Email UPE (Pornography). There is currently no Federal Law governing either UCE or UPE. Many States have adopted legislation making it illegal to send either to residents of that state. In nearly every case marketers sending out mass emails do not know which state the recipient lives in.

The FTC knows this and holds marketers accountable in the states that they have violated the law by documenting these violations and forwarding the information to the appropriate Sate Attorney Generals.

And What About Stopping Junk Mail?

"The amount of paper junk mail sent each year in the USA is staggering -- some 4 million tons, nearly half of which is never opened. Even if you recycle there are still enormous environmental costs in terms of ink, energy to produce deliver and recycle the paper, recycling inefficiencies and loss of virgin forest to create the high quality glossy paper much junk mail uses"
-FAA

And Then We Are Back to Anti-Solicitation...

"Telephonr Solicitation is a $400 billion a year business. Americans lose $40 billion a year to fraudulent telemarketers. Charities make more money from selling your name and number to the other Solicitation companies than from the donations they collect from calling. On average, only 24% of what you donate as a result of a Solicitation call will actually get to the charity on whose behalf the solicitation is made. The Solicitation company hired to make the call gets the rest."
-AntiTelemarketer

STEP 2: Registration for Do Not Contact Services

Help has finally arriving. Many groups are working to ensure that your privacy is protected and your wishes are respected. In summary, if you seek more protection than just that of a Phone Solicitation ban list, it is a 'Global' Do Not Contact service that you should consider. A broad based global service might require a small fee, but will certainly provide more benefits. We hope this information has been helpful.

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