If you've ever wanted to turn the table on telemarketers, here's how. Driven to distraction by telemarketers? By using a little imagination, say consumers who have successfully fought back, you can ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. HELENA - The Ghostbusters once asked: "Who you gonna call?" Now telemarketers may be wondering ...

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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — Telemarketing ranked fourth among the 100 worst ideas of the 20th century in a poll by Time magazine. Curiously however, in the 21st century the $600 billion telemarketing industry is ...

Citizens could register phone numbers with state-maintained ‘do not call’ list. HELENA — Montanans tired of pesky telemarketers calling to sell everything from windshield repair to septic tank pumping ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — State officials issued a series of recommendations Tuesday on how New Yorkers can avoid telemarketing scams, and a new law named for a hit sitcom from the 1990s is the latest ...

The US Federal Trade Commission’s new ‘do not call’ rules could deprive telemarketers of up to 50 percent of their stateside audience, claims Matt Mattingley, director of government affairs for the ...

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 largest ...

An important thing to know about the National Do Not Call Registry is that it can stop only sales calls. You may continue to receive: In other words, putting your number on the National Do Not Call ...