telemarketers

Officials are warning consumers about people calling for donations, pretending to be raising money for the Department of Child Services -- a department which does not exist. Indiana Deputy Attorney General Abigail Kuzma says that government agencies or departments will never solicit charitable...

The number of Americans registered in the Do Not Call registry increased during the past year, while the number of complaints about annoying telemarketers decreased, according to the Federal Trade Commission, which just published the National Do Not Call Registry Data Book for Fiscal...

Ohioan Charles Papenfus is cooling his heels today in a St. Louis jail, unable to raise the $45,000 bail, after a bitter exchange with a phone rep of a company that hustles car warranties. Papenfus, infuriated by the company's actions, threatened to burn the company's building down, then hunt down...

A lot of people don't like telemarketers calling during dinner -- but the lady in the YouTube video below really doesn't like them. In fact, she has evidence that miscarriages, appendix problems and other medical woes are caused by telemarketers. She also has a friend who was gang-raped and found...

On December 1, the Federal Trade Commission closed one of the major loopholes that were still open to telemarketers. Although the 2003 Do-Not-Call Implementation Act made it illegal for telemarketers to contact registered phone numbers, the law did not extend to charities and companies with whom...