Almost everyone has been caught off guard by a spam call, with telemarketers trying again and again to grab a person's ...

Spam calls are a widespread modern nuisance affecting nearly everyone with a mobile phone. Recently, a user on X (formerly ...

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 ...

OMAHA, Neb. -- In the months before the national do-not-call list went into effect, Stuart Discount laid off more than 150 of his workers at his telemarketing company. Now, however, the company is ...

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 ...

HELENA — Montanans tired of pesky telemarketers calling to sell everything from windshield repair to septic tank pumping could get some relief under a proposal two state officials are backing.

WASHINGTON — When a telemarketer calls, there’s usually a few seconds of silence from the time you say hello to the beginning of the pitch. That “dead air” isn’t just irritating — it may now be ...