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 ...

It’s been well over a decade since a law took effect in Pennsylvania that gave its citizens a tool to put a halt to many of those pesky calls that interrupted dinner or your favorite TV show from some ...

ABC News Fixer shares tips for dealing with unending robocalls. Mortgage Investors Corp. has been slapped with a $7.5 million civil penalty for allegedly violating Do Not Call provisions of the FTC.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- More than 200 million people are on the do not call list, but many of them say they're still getting calls from telemarketers. As CBS2's Matt Kozar reported, Fred Parkes says ...

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 bills that ...

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Telemarketers are required to pay an annual subscription fee to access the FTC list so those numbers can be blocked from their dial-out programs. The companies also must update their own calling lists ...

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, ...

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 ...

We all know how difficult it can be to deal with telemarketers, and sometimes it feels like they’ll never stop calling you back. But now, former telemarketer Erica Elson is speaking out, sharing her ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The cherished dinner hour void of telemarketers could vanish next year for millions of people when phone numbers begin dropping off the national Do Not Call list. The Federal Trade ...