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.

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 ...

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Most telemarketers purchase phone numbers from third-party data providers. Here’s how those providers may have gotten your number, ...

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. Limited time: Save 25% on ...

Bob Bulmash hates telemarketers–he calls them “the most annoying pest since the invention of the housefly.” But he’s getting back at them. Since 1988 he’s run a national antitelemarketing organization ...

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 ...

Love it or loathe it, telemarketing is here to stay. No matter how many marketing tactics are created every year, good old cold calls still work well and produce results. You may feel like a small ...