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 ...

A New York company has agreed to a settlement for causing millions of unwanted telemarketing calls to be made to Pennsylvanians, the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office said Friday. Fluent, LLC ...

Everything you need to know about the do-not-call list and stopping the calls. Nov. 12, 2007 — -- The Federal Trade Commission has penalized six companies a total of $7.7 million for calling ...

The federal government created the Do Not Call Registry nearly 20 years ago to give consumers protection from telemarketing calls, and later, robocalls. But despite the goals of the registry, American ...

her bank account number to a caller who told her she had the choice of paying $2.50 per month for 24 months or a one time fee of $299 to be placed on the list for 10 years. Petito said the woman got a ...

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An important thing to know about the National Do Not Call Registry is that it can stop only sales calls. You may continue to receive: In other words, putting your number on the National Do Not Call ...

WASHINGTON -- Politicians have finally found an issue they all can agree on: Telemarketers calling at dinnertime are a scourge that must be repulsed. Congress on Wednesday sent to President Bush two ...

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 ...

Telemarketing calls are an unyielding annoyance of the modern world- constantly irritating you and refusing to ever stop, no matter how hard you wish they would. They'll even call on you birthday, ...