Almost everyone has been caught off guard by a spam call, with telemarketers trying again and again to grab a person's ...

WASHINGTON -- Telemarketers will be free to make sales pitches next week to people who registered for the national do-not-call list, the government said Friday. At the same time, the industry's ...

Learn how to stop spam calls in their tracks with effective methods to detect and block unwanted calls using call screening ...

When a telemarketer called Cathy Lacy recently asking her to donate to the Association for Disabled Firefighters, Lacy shifted into her consumer self-defense mode. Like many people, Lacy, an Oakton ...

million people who have signed up for the list, but it permits calls seeking charitable donations. Some charity callers, however, will be required to meet new standards as part of other changes to ...

The Federal Trade Commission announced updated fees on Tuesday for telemarketers — which can include the BDC and service departments at dealerships — who are accessing phone numbers on the National Do ...

When was the last time you ran to answer the phone, discovered it was a telemarketer, and said to yourself, “Excellent! The call I’ve been waiting for.” That’s what I thought — and it’s why I jumped ...

Seventy-five percent of New Yorkers have registered their number in the National Do Not Call Registry but the New York Department of State's Division of Consumer Protection is pushing for more to add ...

Indian telephone subscribers may soon get some relief from telemarketing calls — the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has proposed a National Do Not Call (NDNC) registry. Telemarketers ...

WASHINGTON -- Gleeful Americans are racing to sign up for a registry that will free them from most unwanted sales calls, but telemarketers warn that beyond the euphoria lies economic pain for the ...

How do I complain about telemarketer calls if I'm on Oklahoma's Don't Call list? How do I get on the national Do Not Call Registry? -- M.E., Tulsa. Oklahoma "Don't Call" list. Charlie Price, spokesman ...

Telemarketers don’t like bad telemarketing calls, either. In the HBO documentary, “Telemarketers,” directors Sam Lipman-Stern and Adam Bhala Lough hear as much when they go into a telemarketing center ...