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Class-action lawsuits filed by area florists and consumers against an out-of-town telemarketing firm using local names and phone numbers to snare business away from legitimate local businesses have claimed a major victory. They have driven a New Jersey telemarketer out of business.

Congressman Mike Doyle (PA-14) announced Monday that he is introducing legislation to make the federal "Do Not Call" list permanent.

Florida Agriculture and Consumer Services Commissioner Charles H. Bronson today announced that he has taken legal action against a Central Florida company for violating Florida's "Do Not Call" law.

The Pima County Sheriff's Department has issued a warning: Watch out for scam artists posing as a telemarketer for the Sheriff's Department or the Fraternal Order of Police.

Did you know the infamous Do Not Call list has a few loopholes that some companies are starting to exploit? The good news though is that you can stop them.

Tuesday, August 21 is the next deadline to register for the state’s Do Not Call list announced Indiana Attorney General Steve Carter. Phone numbers placed on the list by midnight EDT Tuesday will begin receiving benefits of the law starting October 1, 2007.

A couple dozen Pennsylvania state lawmakers want to lump politicians and political parties in with telemarketers on the state's Do Not Call list, a move that would outlaw unsolicited campaign calls.

When the registry was first developed, FTC proposed a maximum annual fee per telemarketer of $3,000. However, by the time the Commission made the registry available in 2003, the cost for access was $7,375. In 2006 the FTC raised the rate to $17,050, a 263 percent increase in four years.

More than 301,000 home and cell phone numbers were re-registered between 10 a.m. on Wednesday and 4 p.m. on Thursday, said Nils Frederiksen, a spokesman for Attorney General Tom Corbett.

If you were one of the first residents to sign up for Pennsylvania’s Do Not Call List when it was launched five years ago, it's time to reregister.

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) is looking for an operator to develop, implement and manage the national do-not-call list, indicating that plans are moving ahead with the registry of households which do not want to be pestered by telemarketers.

New York - Consumer advocacy groups urged senators Tuesday to stiffen legislation that protects consumers from incompetent credit repair agencies and persistent telemarketers with fraudulent motives.

A telemarketing firm accused of using murky promises of discounts and free vacations to trick thousands of consumers across the nation out of millions of dollars was temporarily shut down Wednesday, federal officials said.

The government will set up a "do not call" register by September this year to curb frequent, unsolicited calls from companies offering home loans, credit cards and mobile phone services, the Indian government said on Friday.

The Federal Trade Commission, with assistance from local police and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, has closed Suntasia Marketing Inc. for scamming consumers out of millions of dollars during the past several years.

A nationwide telemarketer from Texas and a mortgage company from Florida were scheduled to go to trial today in St. Louis on civil charges of repeatedly calling Missourians on the state’s No Call list.

The phone lines into Missouri were burning up over the last year as calls from a telemarketer came into the state from Florida and California. The callers were representing the Police Protective Fund and said they were raising money so the families of killed in the line of duty police officers would get payments of $10,000.

If you've given money to what you thought was a state police association, you may be entitled to a refund. After a six month investigation, South Carolina Secretary of State, Mark Hammond, says a Nevada company mislead South Carolinians by telling willing donors their contributions would stay local. Those contributions were in fact going to benefit national organizations.

The X-ASVP Controlling Committee today announced an effort to lobby Congress for legislation that would define the X-ASVP protocol's "UCE entity" as legally equivalent to a listing in a "National Do Not E-mail Registry".