NEW YORK (PIX11) – Some telemarketers are targeting phone numbers on the national “Do Not Call” registry because people are more likely to pick up, experts said. The registry currently has 221 million ...

Last year, Los Angeles Times columnist David Lazarus asked readers to submit their best methods for dealing with telemarketers , including the robotic kind like “Rachel from cardholder services.” ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Associated Press MADISON - A sampling of Wisconsin businesses that engage in telemarketing showed more than half of those firm's top officials registered their own phone numbers on the state's no-call ...