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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Every time your phone rings, there's a decent chance it's a telemarketer calling. How do telemarketers get your phone number, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Telemarketing company Lead My Way has fallen foul of the Do Not Call rules governing unsolicited telemarketing calls, paying a penalty of $285,600 for an infringement following an investigation by the ...

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 ...