I just received an email asking to meet with me and discuss my business telephones. In the bottom of the email was this statement:
By providing your direct line, you hereby grant explicit written consent to accept via email, landline, text or additional mechanized pre-recorded, artificial or other systematized telemarketing calls or texts from selected business phone companies, their marketing partners, even if your contact information appears on a corporate, state or national Do Not Call list. Service fees may be applicable. Consent does not constitute purchase.
WTF? So, if I so much as respond to their email solicitation to talk and include my phone number as is in my signature included in all my email, I give them the above permission? Bull Fucking Shit!
This is the second time I've seen this. If you contact the RNC for any reason using their email form from their web site, you too, give them the same permission.