If you've ever wanted to turn the table on telemarketers, here's how. Driven to distraction by telemarketers? By using a little imagination, say consumers who have successfully fought back, you can ...
WASHINGTON - President Bush launched a national do-not-call list today to stop unwanted telemarketing, saying the last thing people need at home "is a call from a stranger with a sales pitch." ...
Two thoughts sprang to mind last week after an Oklahoma federal judge ruled that the Federal Trade Commission had overstepped its authority by creating a national "do-not-call list" against ...
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 ...
Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. HELENA - The Ghostbusters once asked: "Who you gonna call?" Now telemarketers may be wondering ...
NEW YORK (PIX11) – Some telemarketers are targeting phone numbers on the national “Do Not Call” registry because people are more likely to pick up, experts said. The registry currently has 221 million ...
Telemarketers yesterday filed two separate lawsuits against the Federal Trade Commission to try and stop a regulation that would restrict their calls to consumers. The “do-not-call” program, first ...
A federal judge's decision overturning the government's popular "do not call" list sent Congress and regulators into a hurried fix-it mode Wednesday, while Gov. Gray Davis vowed to protect ...
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 ...
WASHINGTON -- Some telemarketers are taking their fight over the government's popular do-not-call list to the Supreme Court, but the industry's largest group decided yesterday to bow out of the legal ...
WASHINGTON -- Telemarketers expanded their legal challenge to the government's do-not-call list, suing a second federal agency over the call-blocking service for consumers that the industry says will ...