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 ...

Scam calls are smarter and more frequent than ever, but one targeted strategy can keep most of them from ever reaching you.

Every time your phone rings, there's a decent chance it's a telemarketer calling. How do telemarketers get your phone number, and what can you do about it?

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 ...

CLAREMORE, Okla — Donna and Diana Donley live peacefully in the country in a house inherited from their parents. Dad passed in 2022, and Mom in 2020. The quiet of their home near Claremore is ...

U.S. regulators on Tuesday announced a nationwide crackdown to stop companies from inundating people with billions of unwanted and illegal robocalls and telemarketing calls. Subscribe to read this ...

The Telephone Consumer Protection Act lets you recover up to $500 for each violation of the do not call registry. Nathen Barton fought back against telemarketers, and made some money in the process.

The U.S. communications regulator on Tuesday proposed a $225 million fine, its largest ever, against two health insurance telemarketers for spamming people with 1 billion robocalls using fake phone ...

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 ...

The U.S. communications regulator on Tuesday proposed a $225 million fine, its largest ever, against two health insurance telemarketers for spamming people with 1 billion robocalls using fake phone ...