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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 2001, Sam Lipman-Stern was a teenage high school dropout working at Civic Development Group (CDG), a telemarketing company that ...

WASHINGTON — Federal regulators on Wednesday gave consumers new power to make their homes off limits to telephone solicitors offering home improvements, magazine subscriptions and other pitches. The ...

Telemarketing calls do not just interrupt dinner or work meetings; they can also open the door to real financial consequences ...

Is there anything more annoying than getting calls from telemarketers? We all get them, and many of us have fallen for one at some point in time. The simplest response is to just not answer calls from ...

In December 2023, the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) adopted new rules in an effort to close the “lead generator loophole” it believed existed with respect to consumer consent to receive ...

Over 2.6 million Do Not Call complaints were filed with the FTC, with robocalls dominating. Here are the top states affected ...

Telemarketers targeting New Jersey residents soon will be required to provide the telephone numbers of the people on whose behalf their calls are being made. And they must do so within the first 30 ...

There are plenty of people working to make the world a better place. Doctors vaccinate children in Africa. Researchers hunt cures for cancer. Then there’s Roger Anderson. He’s harnessing technology to ...