Join the Do Not Call Registry and rest easy. May 30, 2013 — -- If your phone rings incessantly during the dinner hour with offers of "free" cruises or low-interest credit cards, consider adding ...

People fed up with unwanted telemarketing can sign up for a national do-not-call list that will block many sales calls, the Federal Trade Commission said. On July 1, consumers will be able to register ...

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 ...

Despite the Do Not Call Registry, telemarketers are back and they know where to reach you: on your mobile phone. Here's how to keep them at bay I know I’m not the only one who hates telemarketers. For ...

OMAHA, Neb. -- In the months before the national do-not-call list went into effect, Stuart Discount laid off more than 150 of his workers at his telemarketing company. Now, however, the company is ...

SPRINGFIELD -- The state's new ``no-call'' law should reduce, but won't eliminate, unwanted telemarketing calls, Illinois regulators said Wednesday. Proposed rules outlined at a workshop in ...

DeMayo Law Offices, a North Carolina personal injury law firm, and its legal intake service provider were hit with a consumer class action alleging they violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act ...

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 ...

HELENA — Montanans tired of pesky telemarketers calling to sell everything from windshield repair to septic tank pumping could get some relief under a proposal two state officials are backing.

WASHINGTON — When a telemarketer calls, there’s usually a few seconds of silence from the time you say hello to the beginning of the pitch. That “dead air” isn’t just irritating — it may now be ...

OKLAHOMA CITY -- The Senate Business and Labor Committee OK'd a House bill that would allow Oklahomans to place their telephone numbers off-limits to some telemarketers. The bill by Rep. Bill Paulk, D ...

(CBS News) – The November election is four months away. Millions of Americans are getting texts from political campaigns asking for support and donations. Those texts even hit phones on the Do Not ...