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Stop Telemarketing Calls (and Sue if They Keep Calling)

October 5, 2009

If you do not already know about the National Do Not Call Registry, hie thee hither and put your name down. Once you are on the registry, telemarketers may not call you for five years. There are a couple of exceptions. Businesses may call you for 18 months after you have bought something from them [...]

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Debt Collectors Can Still Use Robocalls

September 2, 2009

As of September 1, 2009, telemarketers cannot make prerecorded commercial calls to customers without obtaining written permission in advance. Debt collectors, however, do not fall under the new FTC rule, because their calls are apparently “informational messages.”
Phone calls from debt collectors are still subject to the FDCPA, of course.
Other purely informational messages include flight notifications, [...]

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Telemarketing counterscript

October 9, 2008

Are you still getting annoying phone calls from telemarketers? Rather than slam the phone down (how rude!), consider asking them a bunch of inane questions.

Print out the PDF counterscript and keep it nearby your home (or office) phone. When a telemarketer calls, give them a taste of their own medicine!
anti-telemarketing EGBG counterscript | EGBG

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FTC Bans Prerecorded Telemarketing Drivel

August 20, 2008

FTC Bans Prerecorded Telemarketing Drivel | /.

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President W signed the Do-Not-Call Improvement Act of 2007

February 20, 2008

The blogosphere is buzzing with the news that President W signed the Do-Not-Call Improvement Act of 2007 into law today, prohibiting the removal of phone numbers from the National Do Not Call Registry. If you have not done so already, add your number to the National Do Not Call Registry.

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