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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Image Credit: Shutterstock. Telemarketing calls are an unyielding annoyance of the modern world- constantly irritating you and ...

On August 27, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced an update to the fees telemarketers must pay to access phone numbers on the National Do Not Call (DNC) Registry for the fiscal year 2025. The ...

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 ...

Allstate Insurance Company was sued under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, after one of its subcontractors repeatedly ...

"Your auto warranty is about to expire." The first time I got that recorded phone call, I tried to figure out which vehicles in my household it could be. Since two were 10 years old and one was almost ...

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 ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Losing millions of potential customers to a "do-not-call" list will almost certainly mean big layoffs at telemarketing companies, where employees already hang from one of the ...

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 ...

PENNSYLVANIA — The Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office announced it reached a settlement with a Colorado-based lead generator for selling Pennsylvanians’ information to telemarketing companies.

WASHINGTON — The Federal Trade Commission wants to create a national “do not call” registry, making it illegal for telemarketers to call anyone on that list. And if the registry is created, the advice ...